Fall Equinox 2017: Virgo Energy, Harvest Themes and Odd Tales

The Fall Equinox is a moving holiday, it does not necessarily fall on the same day every year.

This year, 2017, it occurs on 22nd September at 4:02 EDT. It has a strong preponderance in the sign of Virgo in the seventh house. The rising symbol is 29 Capricorn 29 or according to E.C. Matthews, “Collecting,” a period when collecting things occurs.”

That’s rather apropos for the traditional fall harvest in the northern hemisphere. The high amount of earth planets, thanks to the Virgo preponderance, encourages that feeling — assimilating what we have and bringing it indoor for the intemperate weather ahead. Perhaps some are putting up their perserves, decorating the house with pumpkins and jack o’lanterns or just going back to school.

The chart is a bucket, which is often where we put what we are collecting into, with a Uranian handle in the third house. Uranus is also our least aspected planet, thus collecting odd stories and tales of the peculiar, ghost stories are attracting us more than usual.

The other part of the Line of Culture is our most aspected planet, Neptune but the two are not in aspect, making the chart go beyond the paranormal and enter our everyday consciousness (the Line of Efficiency, the aspect between Mars and Venus, is quite strong) telling us there is a sudden attraction to the strange, odd, and unusual. Perhaps that explains the sudden wave of transgenderism occurring — we want to switch places and experience the other.

Vive le difference!