Hi beautiful being,
Welcome to autumn.
Today is the autumn equinox and the start of Libra season.
This energy is like the first page of a brand new journal. Or that first breath of cool fall air that feels so good after the thick mugginess of summer.
It’s an opportunity to start anew.
As Libra season has been approaching I’ve been playing with this idea of being my own gravity.
The concept came to me when I went to see astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson speak about his new book here in New York City.
He does not claim to be spiritual in the slightest, in fact he flat out rejects any spiritual inferences made from his work.
But of course when I listened to him speak about quantum realities, the fabric of time and space, and our ever expanding universe I’m thinking symbolically.
Sorry Neil!!
Our experience of gravity as humans is a downward force. It’s grounding. Heavy. It’s our connection to earth.
But if we zoom out to a cosmic perspective, gravity is in all directions at once. It’s 360°.
Gravity is the magnetic anchor that keeps us in orbit.
It’s an invisible relationship between bodies, heavenly or otherwise.
Take a breath, and take a moment to feel your body.
Where is your center of gravity located?
Do you feel it in your belly, legs, feet, pelvis, chest, throat?
Do you feel your center of gravity at all?
Are there ways you could move or change shape so that you have better access to your own gravity?
When we place our energetic gravity on things outside of ourself, there will always come a moment of reckoning with that instability.
We’re so often getting swung around in someone else’s (or some algorithm’s) orbit.
When our inner balance relies on the stability of others, we’re already off center.
And this is a very Libra lesson.
Libra naturally inhabits that invisible space that is the connective tissue between self and other.
Libra energy is like social lubricant. Libra embodies an effortless charm that makes social interactions feel beautiful and sexy and flowing.
The shadow side of this is that sometimes Libra doesn’t gauge when they’ve gone too far from center.
They’d rather yield a bit of their truth to make someone else comfortable. It’s then that they’ve lost themself.
Libra in balance knows that a symphony is made from different notes being played together.
A memorable meal has a balance of flavors.
A dynamic piece of art has dimension and texture.
And of course I don’t mean to say that we can never lean on others for support.
When we are strong in our center, our gravity can be a temporary refuge for others.
Relationships require flexibility, we all share this world.
In being our own gravity we must recognize that others are their own gravity too.
When we’re embodied in our gravity we don’t need anyone else to hold us up. We don’t need anyone to validate our gravity.
It’s simply felt.
Where do you stand on the gravitational spectrum?
Do you get too easily lost in the gravity of others?
Or do you swallow the agency of others with your rigidity?
Or something in-between?
What fortifies your gravity?
What drains you of agency?
As always I’m a fan of acknowledging nuance. We are all doing all of the above to some degree.
We can come back to our gravity through practices that require us to be present with ourself.
Present with our body, our heart.
Our joy is an especially powerful pathway to our gravity.
And when you walk as your own center of gravity, life will come to you.
In being your own gravity a letting go is possible.
You can walk through life held in a perpetual trust fall, supported by the ground underneath your feet.
Throughout autumn we’ll be continually asked to come back to our gravity.
We’ll be asked to stand both in our power and our flexibility, and find a middle way between the two.
Sending you all the equinox blessings ✨
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW.
xo Eden Sky
I acknowledge that I live and work on the stolen, ancestral lands of the Lenape people. I humbly give respect and reverence to those who have always been here.