![]() While you’re enjoying the harvest moon look for the planet Venus in the west and Jupiter and Saturn in the southeast after sunset. Traditionally the harvest moon’s light helped farmers work late at night during harvest season ![]() The full moon that occurs around the time of the autumn equinox is called the harvest moon. This year the full moon took place yesterday on Monday September 20. The word “equinox” comes from the Latin meaning “equal” and nox meaning ”night,” therefore equal day and night.Īround the time of the fall equinox the full moon appears. At the spring equinox, the earth’s axis tilts toward the sun and the sun appears higher in the sky. During the autumn equinox the earth's axis tilts away from the sun causing the sun to appear lower in the sky. The days will be shorter and the nights longer.Īll of this is due to the 23 ½ degree tilt of the earth’s axis. From now on for the next three months the sun rises earlier and sets earlier as the sun sets farther south each day. On this date the sun rises due east and sets due west. Summer is coming to an end and fall officially begins on Wednesday September 22 at 1:21 pm in the Northern Hemisphere. The seasons are transitioning this month. Who said that couch-potato is not a symbol of the harvest festival? Get yourself a great book, movie or a playlist on a theme and fall into the arms of a perfect fall.Have you noticed the weather is changing? The days and nights seem cooler as the month of September moves on. If the weather is not so warm and welcoming, stay inside. Get creative, take the most out of the holiday. Leaves, pinecones, nuts, acorns, chestnuts, sticks, moss, pumpkins, berries-these are the treasures for DIY and craft lovers. Gifts of nature are the perfect material for tons of useless but adorable kids' craft. Oktoberfest has just started-grab a beer! Or get prepared for the busy times of Halloween and Thanksgiving ahead of everybody else. Go visit festivals to get fall-festive! Fall Equinox Sunset Celebrations are very popular. Not a bad way to charge your battery before sunless winter comes, huh? And then thoroughly cook them before eating.įall is a great time to go way-way North and experience the magic view of Northern Lights up in the sky. Just make sure you can tell the good mushrooms from the bad ones. So embrace the dull weather and then enjoy the gifts of nature. There are a lot of edible mushrooms in the forests that pop up after fall rains. Some people take the First Day of Fall seriously and go into the woods for a mushroom hunt. Or have a nice walk to a grocery store and buy a few seasonal fruits and vegetables. If you have a cabin in the country with an orchard or an old apple tree in the backyard, go for a symbolic harvest gathering today. Selfie with a bunch of leaves? Done! Jumping in big piles of leaves? Done! Insta Story with leaves rustling underfoot? You bet! It’s a perfect time for a walk in the park or in the forest, instagramming like never before. In all possible and impossible shades of orange, red, yellow, brown and green. Thus, the fall (and spring) equinoxes provide Earth with roughly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. What does the fall equinox mean Astronomically it’s the day when the sun crosses the celestial equator heading south. Leaves are getting pretty and multi-coloured. The 2021 fall equinox arrives in the Northern Hemisphere on September 23 at 19:21 UTC. And the plants get back to their life too. Right until the day her beloved daughter is back again. It’s getting cold and wet, like Demetra’s heart. Nothing grows, days shorten, nights become longer. All these months without Persephone, Demetra mournes. Right under the ground to her husband's Underworld premises for the next 6 months. They agreed on a compromise: for half a year Persephone lives above the ground with her mother.īut when the Day of Fall comes she has her fall too. Demetra was devastated by her loss and started to pressure Hades to get her daughter back to her. Demetra’s (Goddess of Harvest) daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades (God of Underworld) to become his wife and live with him happily (or not) under the ground. The same is with the famous pyramids in Latin America.Įven Ancient Greek myths have one about the First Day of Fall. For example, the mysterious Stonehenge of England was constructed thinking of the Sun, equinoxes and solstices. Before the world was united under one calendar system (more or less), ancient people celebrated the Fall Equinox and started fall season from this point.
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