It's time to surround yourself with the Electric Blue Flame of Archangel Michael!
This year, 2026, the Autumnal Equinox occurred on September 22 at 8:05 PM Eastern daylight time. The Fall season began in the Northern Hemisphere. Archangel Michael's energy now presides over the next quarter year of the Seasonal Wheel.
Guido Reni's "Archangel Michael defeating Satan", circa 1636
Guido Reni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Under Michael's influence, Universal Life Force energy in human beings rises to the upper chakras.
As the leader of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael is the receiver and transmitter of Cosmic Intelligence.
According to the Kabbalah, as interpreted by the Western Mystery School Tradition, Michael and his legions of guardian angels wield the electric blue flame of karmic liberation and reside in the Sephiroth known as Tiphareth, at the midpoint of the Tree of Life, the home of the Sun, symbolic of Christ Consciousness and Cosmic Intelligence.
Not long after the Equinox, from October 2nd through November 7th, in the northern hemisphere, the Orionid meteor showers, associated with Archangel Michael, will be visible.
Perseids Meteor Shower, Livingston Manor, NY,
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
As these space rocks, rich in iron, streaked across autumn's night skies, the clairvoyant vision of 20th Century Austrian Spiritual Teacher Rudolf Steiner saw the traditional flashing iron sword of Michael.
The meteoric sword of Michael was thought to cleanse the Earth’s atmosphere of summer's sulfurous influences, allowing the Higher Self to emerge and guide the initiate along the path of Spirit toward the birth of the Inner Christ Light, an event which takes place in December, at the Winter Solstice, just before the festival of Christmas.
This spiritual journey is, of course, the pathway to accessing Cosmic Intelligence, and it is with Archangel Michael's guidance and assistance that we can all experience that exalted consciousness for ourselves.
A "Rose" Made of Galaxies, Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash
By pursuing purification of mind, body and heart, and by seeking to eliminate attachments operating as emotional, mental and karmic bonds that prevent us from accessing Cosmic Intelligence, we can create within ourselves a purified, receptive space within our hearts where Cosmic Intelligence can enter.
Michael is always available to help us release fear, doubt, and negative emotions along with outworn and mistaken maps of the world.
Invoke Archangel Michael and his electric blue flame to sever negative and unwanted attachments from your physical, etheric, astral and mental bodies.
As we seek liberation through purification this Autumn season, under the guidance of Archangel Michael, other cultures around the world synchronistically pursue their own unique paths of spiritual enlightenment through meditation, prayer and ritual practices.
A Naga Sadhu performs a sacred fire ritual for purification at Kumbh Mela, Shivani1611, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Personal purification, prayer and meditation are only the first step in the spiritual journey that has begun to unfold with the transition from summer to autumn.
The Sun entered the social sign of Libra at the time of the Autumn Equinox, and a transpersonal, social consciousness now awakens within us.
During the Libra interval we confront the need for constant adjustment of the dynamic equilibrium necessary to maintain right human relations between self and other, between individual and social priorities.
The Libran personality prizes partnerships, friendships, and family and honors the web of life which sustains us all collectively and individually.
This week's Autumn Equinox Festival has a special significance for us. Jane and I celebrated forty years together -- our Ruby Wedding Anniversary.
Jane and Curtis, Then and Now
Jane and I both have prominent Libra planets. Jane has Neptune and Saturn conjunct in Libra and I have Mars, Neptune and Saturn in Libra, so we are energized when in partnerships.
The cohort of baby boomers born during the Neptune and Saturn in Libra years of the early 1950s produced the wave of books and relationship gurus focused on the concept of soulmates in the 1980s, 1990s and early Aughts, when many Boomers were seeking fulfilling partnerships based upon equality of male and female.
That era is now long gone. Equality between the sexes is very seldom invoked as an ideal today. For us that ideal is our spiritual North Star, our guiding light.
Our marriage is an alchemical marriage, a spiritual practice, and a platform that grounds us as we release our karma -- together.
Jane and I experienced spontaneous regressions to shared past lives when we first met in 1980, and we explored numerous shared past lives during our years as past life regression therapists.
That work was immensely rewarding, fulfilling and consciousness expanding.
If you are interested in exploring the concept of soulmates for yourself, we offer you our free online book Back to the Garden: Cultivating Love in Our Lives.
Healing the Wounded Heart of the World, by Jane Sherry
Now, after 40 years of marriage, Jane and I look back with wonder on our long and winding road, filled with marvels, mysteries and moments of dramatic consciousness expansion.
We have enjoyed so many adventures together, so many blessings, and so much love.
We are filled with gratitude.
We wish to thank all of our subscribers, past and present, for your good energy, which has supported us for the last 23 years at Satya Center.
Aries Full Harvest Moon, Libra Solar Festival Cosmic Weather Forecast
This Saturday, September 26, at 12:48 PM EDT, we celebrate the Full Harvest Moon at 3º36' Aries and the Libra Solar Festival, with the Sun at 3º37' Libra.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the bright light of the Harvest Moon at the time just after the Equinox provided enough light that farmers could extend their workdays and harvest corn, pumpkins, squash and beans before the first frost arrived.
Full Moon Through the Trees, Photo by Hersh Chauhan on Unsplash
The Sabian Symbol for the Sun at this degree of Libra is Around a Campfire a Group of Young People Sit in Spiritual Communion.
This Sabian Symbol indicates "The necessity to unite with kindred spirits as one enters unbeaten paths illumined by the still insecure light of a dawning intuition of new values."
The Libra interval of the seasonal cycle emphasizes group spiritual practices, so if you are part of a group, connect and take advantage of this Full Aries Moon's powerful energies to take your group work to the next level.
If you are not part of a group, connect with your Guides and Teachers and create your own mindful ceremony, ritual of gratitude or meditation practice designed to raise the energy into the upper chakras.
Ask for guidance and signposts to be given to you so that you may discern a new path forward during this new season of autumn.
Astrologically, this month's Full Moon presents both highly supportive and intensely challenging aspects for our consideration.
As you can see in the image above, this is a very busy starscape, bursting with interconnections, laden with meaning.
The Moon conjuncts Neptune in Aries, thinning the veil between the worlds.
Our emotional bodies, governed by the Moon, are open to the Neptunian influences associated with collective consciousness, and that influx of Neptunian energy is so powerful that we may experience emotional overload, intense creative stimulation, or a strong desire to escape the cares and worries of the world.
We could be swept up in strong emotional currents and astral glamours emanating from the group consciousness of our families, friends, co-workers, and co-religionists.
There could be strong feelings of solidarity with all those who share an ideology or political orientation we identify as our own, and equally strong feelings that those who do not share those beliefs and feelings must be excluded, even attacked, to protect the members of our group and to allow the group mind to manifest its intent in the world.
Revenge Mother of Storms, Drawing by Jane Sherry
This tendency toward conflict and exclusivity could be amplified by a prominent T-Square, featuring Mars in the last degree of Cancer opposing Pluto in the first degrees of Aquarius, with both luminaries square to Chiron, the planet of the wounded healer, in the last degree of Aries.
Mars and Pluto are the twin ruling planets of the sign of Scorpio, and when they are opposed, there is strong probability of escalating conflicts around the world.
With both planets squaring Chiron in Aries there is a strong potential for political parties, nations, religious congregations, and entire races or ethnic groups to engage in conflict related to perceived past wounds.
In other words, there is a definite thirst for revenge and a tendency to lash out at perceived enemies when there is a shared history of tit-for-tat reprisals, attacks and wars.
This applies in spades to the United States, which has spent the last 25 years engaged in a never ending Global War on Terror, conceived as revenge for the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
The GWOT has now spread across the globe, with hot wars ongoing in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Africa. Under these astrological aspects, the GWOT is likely to escalate.
Axis of Evil, Targets of Global War on Terror, People's Republic of China, Iran, North Korea, Russia
—Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
As the map above shows, the GWOT was conceived as a multi-decade operation to punish the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia and to implement regime change in those countries.
The Global War of Revenge seems to be steadily morphing into a low intensity simmering conflict encompassing entire continents, global supply lines, global financial markets, the global banking system, and the entirety of the digital world.
This represents significant escalation under Donald Trump, and with current astrological aspects, further escalation is very likely.
Also it is clear that the targets of the GWOT, the so-called Axis of Evil, have developed new military capabilities enabling them to strike back at the American Empire, and to deliver significant blows to the entirety of our highly globalized civilization.
They too most certainly thirst for revenge.
Nor is the vengeful energy confined to international affairs.
America is embroiled in a Cold Civil War. Both sides seek vengeance for a long history of increasingly vicious political attacks on one another that have escalated over the last 25 years.
Political parties in the United States are likely to engage in more fervent attacks on one another in the run up to the November election, using lawfare, the power of the national security state, ICE, and state and local governments and police departments to attack their perceived enemies in the opposing party -- often in a quest for revenge for perceived past crimes and misdemeanors.
As one GOP strategist put it to the Cook Report, one of the Democratic Party's most influential sources for insider politics the other day, "The next 40 days are going to be a knife fight in an alley."
The question I want to ask is -- How much collateral damage will there be among the rank and file voters in both parties during this knife fight? I'm willing to bet it won't be inconsequential.
As for the astrology around election day, we will certainly return to that in next month's Cosmic Weather Forecast.
In the meantime, on a personal level, the current Mars-Pluto-Chiron T-Square pits the energy of Mars in Cancer against Pluto in Aquarius. Pluto in Aquarius is associated with Tech Plutocrats while Mars in Cancer is focused on protecting the home above all.
So if you are having any problems with technology in your home that involve major tech companies and their services or products, be aware that anger could flare, and issues could require sustained effort on your part, so that you can ameliorate any perceived injuries or ill effects you may have suffered at the hands of the Tech Titans.
In general, this is a great Full Moon week to exercise restraint whenever you feel the urge to lash out at the inevitable frustrations this difficult T-Square arouses in many areas of life.
Unfortunately the effects of the energy this Full Moon will last for a couple of weeks to come.
To make it all more complicated and potentially unpleasant, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto are all retrograde this Full Moon week.
The outer planet retrogrades continue for weeks and months to come.
Pluto stations direct on October 15, Saturn stations direct on December 10, Neptune returns to direct motion on December 12, and Uranus remains retrograde until February 8, 2027.
With these outer planets of collective consciousness in retrograde motion, we may feel we are losing ground, revisiting old wounds, lost in a fog of confusion, and shocked again and again by events that resonate with past dramas and traumas in our lives.
During this outer planet retrograde season, it can be very difficult to achieve our goals in the Saturnine realm of work and career.
Neptunian propaganda organs are suffusing digital spaces with narratives completely disconnected from reality, designed to manipulate our emotions.
In other words, astral glamours abound.
There will be a strong thought form broadcast throughout the collective consciousness urging us all to subscribe to the mental maps of the world being peddled by politicians, tech oligarchs, religious zealots and ideologues.
Discernment and strong will forces are required if we are to stay on course on our path of Spirit, grounded in the present moment.
Under these astrological aspects, the most retrograde and reactionary Uranus and Pluto ruled Tech Titans are in full war of all against all mode, determined to bring about the advent of AI Jesus so they can control the collective consciousness completely.
An AI Generated "Shrimp Jesus" uploaded to FacebookSee page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
It's a tsunami of retrograde energy, designed to drag us all, kicking and screaming, back into an era of feudal social relations dominated by competing warlords, all enhanced by Artificial Intelligence, warrior robots and drones and a blossoming global surveillance state.
However we all have free will. We can choose to develop our own worldview rather than accepting the imposed worldviews of others.
It is important for us to bear witness to the unfolding global polycrisis, and to continue to honor our own clear vision of events unfolding around us, on our own terms, without flinching, and without giving in to despair.
This is the first step in a consciousness revolution that will lead to a New Age of Spiritual Freedom. That revolution is a requirement so we can begin to construct a civilization based on right human relations and goodwill towards all.
There is a flowing Grand Air Trine between Sun in Libra, Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, indicating that all personal and business communications could lead to better than expected positive outcomes.
With this Grand Air Trine in the sky, collective consciousness is porous.
Sharing is facilitated.
Flow states spontaneously engage all participants in group discussions.
Now is the time to initiate group conversations designed to facilitate community building that will catalyze collective solutions to intransigent issues facing us all in this fragmented world at war with itself.
We seek immersion into the collective consciousness, via psychoactive substances, ritual, meditation, and participation in community activities designed to access vision, creativity, imagination and wisdom.
In these ways we allow ourselves to experience the deep stillness that facilitates access to Cosmic Intelligence.
Jane and look forward to joining all of you in the ethers this Saturday evening, as we perform our spiritual practices.
We may not manifest a world that conforms to our highest ideals this Full Moon week, but if we harness the power of Air and Fire to connect with one another and with Spirit, we will most certainly open doorways to expanded consciousness.
We will be sending Love and Light to you all!
Meditation Moment: Serenade by Dilruba Ahmed
It's wine I need. Is it a sin to have another?
No harm in merlot, no harm in another.
In Ramadan, we'll break our fast with dates and wine—
Must we pray in one room and dance in another?
Crushed blossoms at the end of the summer: teach me
how to coax nectar from the bloom of another.
Burned rice on the stove again: what's to love
but my imperfections—you'll forgive me another.
Butter by a kettle always melts, warns the proverb.
Heated, greased, we slip one into the other.
When, inexplicably, you enter my prayers,
I hear messages from one god or another.
Me encanta cantar, cuando estoy sola, en el carro.
My mother tongue dissolves. I speak in another.
Heart-thief, enter the fields like a woman in love,
vase in one hand, shears in the other.
Dilruba Ahmed delivers the keynote speech at the 2018 LitLife Poetry Conference, Rosemont College.
DPoet2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
