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Autumn Equinox 2024

AvatarHigh Priestess Lydia Coventina3 min to read

Happy Mabon everyone! (Happy Spring Equinox for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere.) :)

[Check our Zevism Calendar of your location to see when this begins, Sun will enter 0 degrees of Libra.]

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Mabon, Autumn Equinox. This is a time of balance, welcoming the coming darkness, and preparing for the increased inner-reflection that comes with Autumn. Before electricity we lit our homes with candles as the evenings began earlier in the day, which naturally increased quiet solitude and contemplation. Re-evaluating your life and goals can be done at this time, and consider making adjustments in preparation for a more successful following year.

From JoS:
“The equinoxes are good times to begin things. Rituals for putting things into action.” Even though the Moon is waning, you can begin a new project on this date, and set your intention to work on it through the autumn and winter.

This is the second harvest festival of the year. Celebrations include feasts involving seasonal foods such as apples, squash, and other earthy vegetables, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, and wild meats (venison, boar) and stews. Symbols associated are acorns, stag, baskets, scarecrows, sickles and scythes.

You can visit local farmer’s markets, get some apple pie and pumpkin juice/latte, make a stew, and go for a walk in nature and observe the changing color of the trees.

A traditional way of celebration was to honor Gods and Goddesses associated with the harvest. We have Furfur’s ritual, you can do this unless another ritual schedule is posted for tomorrow.

For anyone who has not gotten into the habit of pranayama (breathing exercises), this is a good time to begin the alternate nostril breathing, as it helps to balance the soul and the hemispheres of the mind. When the right nostril is more open, the left brain hemisphere is dominant; when the left nostril is more open, the right brain hemisphere is dominant. If you ever find yourself over-logical and unable to connect to your intuition or creative side; or, if you are overly-daydreaming and having difficulty using the left brain functions, you can do some rounds of alternate nostril breathing to obtain balance. You can then follow it with prayer mudra, as this sends energy from the right hand to the left hand and forming a circuit, to the left shoulder, to the right shoulder, and through the hands again.

Alternate nostril breathing balances the nadis, the ida and pingala, and allows for the brain to balance so both hemispheres are equally functioning at all times. After some time of practice, you will find that at any given moment, both nostrils will always be in equal balance.

Happy Mabon!

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Beautiful article HPS Lydia, thank you for sharing.

Happy Mabon to my beautiful Satanic family!

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#21

Happy Mabon Everyone , Brothers and Sisters!

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Hello , All Brothers and Sisters of the Temple !
I ' m member in this year 2015 site romanian Temple of Zeus .

Hail Zeus !

#22

Thank you HPS Lydia for this wonderful sermon once again

Happy Mabon Family
🍎🥜🌰🍂🍁🪔🕯️🍃

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#23

Thank you HPS Lydia

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#24

Another Great Sermon, HPs Lydia!! Interesting about balancing the brain, too! I plan on trying that one!

Happy Mabon Satanic Family!!!

Hail Satanas!!

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#25

I started a sun square on this day

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jacobSSsaid:post: 1094206

I started a sun square on this day

Sun is in detriment, and it clearly states on the page to never start it when it is in detriment/fall signs.

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Sun is in detriment, and it clearly states on the page to never start it when it is in detriment/fall signs.

Yes I know, I started when it was in Virgo

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jacobSSsaid:post: 1094407

Yes I know, I started when it was in Virgo

This post is about Autumn Equinox, which is when Sun enters Libra. So you either did not start the square during Autumn Equinox, or you started it when it was in Libra, not Virgo. It can't be both.

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I started last Sunday when it was Sun hours. 22 of this month

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#30

I got the idea I was starting on Virgo, but maybe I am wrong

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i've been checking the forum everyday for near two weeks looking for an article for this time of year and i thought it wasn't going to be made. I'm glad someone made a comment on it or else i may not have seen it highlighted.- i look in the top important post section. Thank you HP Lydia for making this article. I find it interesting that even after the inital date itself of the equinox the time between sunset and sunrise still shrinks for several more days- weather channel app info. in my part of the world there was only three minuets difference between the two times yesterday thought the equinox happened last week. It's something i found interesting is all.
Happy fall everyone or spring for those in the southern hemisphere!

Hail Father Satan

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#32

I find it interesting that even after the inital date itself of the equinox the time between sunset and sunrise still shrinks for several more days- weather channel app info. in my part of the world there was only three minuets difference between the two times yesterday thought the equinox happened last week. It's something i found interesting is all.

The fall equinox is when the day and night are equal in length, but there is still time for the night to grow. However, much of this depends on the location. Around the latitude where I live, day and night can grow and shrink up to 3 or 4 minutes every day up until the summer and winter solstices when the day or night can be as long as ~18 hours. 12-24 hour drive up north and we have endless days and nights for certain periods...

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The fall equinox is when the day and night are equal in length, but there is still time for the night to grow. However, much of this depends on the location. Around the latitude where I live, day and night can grow and shrink up to 3 or 4 minutes every day up until the summer and winter solstices when the day or night can be as long as ~18 hours. 12-24 hour drive up north and we have endless days and nights for certain periods...

here the equinox was supoose to be about the 21 or 22 but there was still somewhere around 2 or more houres before the day and night were equal and the gap kept closing after those days till almost a week later when there was finally about 3 minuets between the two times. so wouldn't that have been the real equinox? or is it dependant on something else? i'm no astrologer and tend to have trouble remembering most of the holiday calender dates.. is the equinox more of a combo of things?

Hail Father Satan

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#34

Happy Satanic holiday to all
Even when am saying it abit late
Hail Satan

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Yeah I was wrong, I already give up on the idea, for everyone to know I was starting to get really sick, a problem in the tooth, the stomach also I don't know what happened, it's for everyone judgment if this is a coincidence or the square started on libra

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#36

Thank you.

Happy Mabon in hindsight!

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Alternate nostril breathing balances the nadis, the ida and pingala, and allows for the brain to balance so both hemispheres are equally functioning at all times. After some time of practice, you will find that at any given moment, both nostrils will always be in equal balance.

Often, such as in these days, I get my left nostril shut by congestion. What kind of imbalance can this create? Which hemisphere suffers from it? The left one directly, or the right one inversely?

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O Gods of the first dawn, Gods of Hellas and of Khem, of the rivers of Sumer and the snows of the North, of every people that once knelt before the true and the bright:
I declare before You and before the witness of all the heavens that Your Names are restored. Restored truly. Restored rightly. Restored in their power and their majesty and their original splendor.

- High Priest Zevios Metathronos

#38

Often, such as in these days, I get my left nostril shut by congestion. What kind of imbalance can this create? Which hemisphere suffers from it? The left one directly, or the right one inversely?

It's inverse, but for the brain hemispheres this refers to normal function of the nostrils. For those who suffer from one nostril or another being blocked by physical means (congestion, or the nasal plate being off-center caused by a defect), you can do prayer mudra to balance. The nostril might still be closed but the energy is balanced.

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Liturgical Terms of Zevism (everyone please read and familiarize yourself with these)

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or, if you are overly-daydreaming and having difficulty using the left brain functions, you can do some rounds of alternate nostril breathing to obtain balance. You can then follow it with prayer mudra, as this sends energy from the right hand to the left hand and forming a circuit, to the left shoulder, to the right shoulder, and through the hands again.

Alternate nostril breathing balances the nadis, the ida and pingala, and allows for the brain to balance so both hemispheres are equally functioning at all times. After some time of practice, you will find that at any given moment, both nostrils will always be in equal balance.

I used to absolutely HATE that I am daydreaming almost entire of my day, even during meditations and even void meditations. But recently I read it is quite a useful "skill" to have, if in complete control, so I want to start fixing and improving on it.
Are alternate nostril only temporary solutions for us, who literally have to deal with this every moment of our day, or are they, if done every day, with void meditations, going to balance and sort of allow us to decide when to daydream and when not to?

(even this message was written in semi-daydream state.......)

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