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Tuesday at 8:04 in the evening, the sun crosses the middle and the year goes even.
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For one moment the light and the dark are matched, all the way down to the second. Then the dark takes the lead and keeps it until just before Christmas.
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Nothing up there stays even, it only passes through even on the way to somewhere else.
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You Are Not Behind. The Whole Year Tips on Tuesday.
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Tuesday night the sun crosses the celestial equator and moves into Libra. Day and night come out close to equal everywhere on the planet at the same moment. After that, the nights are longer than the days until March.
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Libra is the only sign in the whole zodiac that is not an animal or a person, but an object: a set of scales.
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A scale has no opinion about you. It does not know your history and it will not round up out of kindness. It reports the weight, and then it goes still.
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That is the week in one image. Tuesday evening a line gets crossed, and after it the arrangement everyone got used to all summer does not hold anymore.
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The week is dated and it is public. Anyone with a phone can check it. Here is what it holds, in order:
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Monday and Tuesday, the last two days of summer on paper. |
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Tuesday at 8:04 p.m. Eastern, the sun moves into Libra. |
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Wednesday, the first full day of fall, and the first day the night is longer than the day. |
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Thursday and Friday, the light gets shorter by two to three minutes a day. |
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Saturday at 12:49 p.m. Eastern, the Harvest Moon goes full. |
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Saturday and Sunday nights, that moon comes up near sunset both times. |
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The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the equinox, and it has an odd habit. It rises around sunset several nights running instead of an hour later each night. Farmers used to cut by it.
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It is the one full moon of the year that does not make you wait for it.
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Saturday night, if the sky is clear, you can stand in the driveway at dinnertime and watch it come up over the roofline across the street. Sunday it does almost the same thing again.
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The light is not being taken from you. It is not being held back. It is being moved, on a schedule set long before anyone you have loved was born.
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The next two weeks are also when men who went dark in July start showing up again. The weather turns, the calendar gets cold, and the number of people looking for someone to be cold with goes up every fall.
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If someone surfaces this week, the question is not whether he missed you. Anyone can miss you in October. The question is what he is willing to say out loud about the months he was gone, before anything else happens.
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Tuesday goes even whether you are ready or not, and the only part you get a vote on is what is sitting on your side of the scale.
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Also True
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One Sign to Watch
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Watch the sky over the parking lot this week. The geese are moving south, and they fly in a V because the birds behind ride the air the leader is pushing. The one at the point gets nothing. Birdwatchers have long noticed the lead bird drops back and another takes over. Nobody in the line stays out front for the whole trip.
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The Mirror
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When you look at Saturday on your calendar, who is the blank part being held for?
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Today’s Devotion: Open your calendar tonight and write one thing into Saturday evening, a friend’s name, a ticket, a time you will be standing outside. Then close the laptop and leave it closed.
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Keep your power in your own hands.
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Sofia
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