Balance the Scales, Gather the Gold


This Week's Soul Vitamins

This week begins with the Autumn Equinox, a threshold moment of equal light and dark. Day and night hold one another in perfect poise before the wheel turns deeper into shadow. It’s a pause, a breath, a mirror.

 

The Equinox invites us to ask:

Where am I giving too much? Where am I receiving too little?

What harvests am I celebrating, and what am I ready to release into the dark?

This is not a week of rushing.

It’s a week of reckoning and gratitude.

A time to gather what you’ve grown, acknowledge the work behind it, and gently re-balance the scales before moving forward.

As the season tips, so do we. From outward bloom to inward root. From sowing to storing. From endless doing to more mindful being.

 

✨ Weekly Focus Prompt:

“This week, I honour the balance of light and dark within and around me.”

Whisper it at sunrise and sunset.

Write it in your journal.

Let it steady you as the season shifts.

 

🍂 Autumn Equinox Ritual – Monday 22nd September: Harvest gratitude. Restore balance.

  • Light two candles: one for light, one for dark
     
  • Place in front of you items that represent your harvest (achievements, blessings, moments of joy)
     
  • Write down what you’re proud of, and read it aloud as an offering of gratitude
     
  • On a second paper, write what feels heavy or out of balance, bury or burn it, returning it to the earth
     
  • Close by eating or drinking something seasonal with reverence (apples, bread, wine, or cider)
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🌿 Ally of the Week: Apple

Energetics: Wholeness | Blessing | Balance

Eat mindfully, leave offerings of apple slices to the land, or meditate with its star-shaped core revealed.

Apple carries the wisdom of balance: sweetness held in earthiness, endings within beginnings.

 

🕯️Mini Ritual Challenge – Honour the Turning

  • Bring something seasonal into your home: leaves, seeds, apples, acorns
     
  • Write a gratitude list for what this year has given you so far
     
  • Create one small act of balance: as you give (time, energy, kindness), also consciously receive

 

📓 In your Magickal Living journal, explore:

What am I harvesting from this year so far?

Where in my life feels out of balance, and how can I restore it?

What do I choose to carry into the darker months, and what do I lay down?

This week, let the Equinox be your sacred mirror.

Gather your gold.

Honour the shadow.

And step into the next season in balance.