BROWN BEAR • HARVEST MOON
23 AUG - 22 SEPT
EARTH ASTROLOGY • NATIVE AMERICAN
Birth Totem: Brown Bear
Element: Earth w/Water • Totem: Mouse
• Clan: Turtle
Your birth totem represents the teacher you chose to study under, not so much your personality or ego, as in Western Astrology - by Sun Bear + Wabun •
GRASSLANDS
Savannah, Steppes, Pampas & Prairies
Less than 8% of all grasslands worldwide are protected. The lowest protection of any biome on earth is temperate grasslands, at less than 1%. This includes North America’s Great Plains. Only 5% of the original US prairie remains.
National Wildlife Day
4 • SEPT
Protection, conservation, & fellowship
for all Creatures -
Great & Small.
Baja Blue
Divine & Pure • Discerning & Wise
September is a time when our appreciation of beauty heightens & our breath of scope increases. Baja Blue opens the mind to higher concepts & less limiting points of view.
- Colorstrology by Michele Bernhardt
Pantone Color for September • Learn more • Image
'To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall'
– Ann Patchett
September...
is for harvests, wine, fruit, farm & song.
We celebrate earth's bounty & acknowledge our follow earthlings; especially the ones who bless us with cohabitation and help us along the way.
FRUCTIDOR
The Month of Fruit
fructus
18 AUG - 16 SEPT
From the French Republican Calendar created during the French Revolution. It removed religious, royalist & classical references & honored liberty & secularism. The twelve months were named after natural elements; the days were named for seeds, trees, flowers, fruits, animals & tools common to France & French country living.
Harvest Season
(NORTHERN HEMISPHERE)
Harvest Time- the reaping of earth's bounty. We all recognize the blessings - we value all that our gracious planet provides. Give thanks and protect her, so we can all weather the dark days of winter - together.
National Farm & Ranch Animal
Awareness Week
3rd Week of September
Sept 13 - 19, 2026
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mahatma Gandhi
September...
honors domesticated animals.
Those we're lucky enough to share our lives with.
Virgo's animal symbol is the domesticated pet.
Remember, some angels choose fur over wings.
MUIN
10•SEP•26 - 9•OCT•26
10TH LUNATION
CELTIC ASTROLOGY
The Vine • Swan • Lizard • Hound
A symbol of sacred knowledge & spiritual intention, the VINE'S winding nature speaks to the interconnectivity & eternal life of all things in the universe. SWANS symbolize purity, beauty, grace & partnership. To the Celts, when spirits from other realms need to pass thru this world they take the form of the Swan. They always journey in pairs.
Thesmophoria
17 • SEPT
An ancient Greek religious festival, held in honor of Demeter, the goddess of cereal grains, was celebrated on this day (and throughout September depending on location) with a festival of secret rites. Ceres is the Roman equivalent.
HAKURO • 白露
The Time of White Dew
8 SEPT - 22 SEPT
二十四節季
NIJYUUSHI SEKKI • THE 24 JAPANESE SEASONS
The Japanese have 24 mini-seasons called Nijyuushi Sekki marked by celestial events including solstices, equinoxes & ecliptical degrees of the sun.
Hakuro - the sun moves from 165° to 179° along the ecliptic - wagtails sing, swallows migrate south, dew drops cover the ground.
The Season of Lughnasadh
The Three Harvests
Mabon - 22•SEPT
(NORTHERN HEMISPHERE)
THE 2ND HARVEST of
the Season - The Fruit Harvest
A day equally divided between day & night. A time to take a moment & pay respects to the waning sunlight, give thanks for the year's bounty & ready ourselves for the impending cold.
Autumnal Equinox
(NORTHERN HEMISPHERE)
22•SEPT•26
The Decent of Kukulkan
Chichen Itza, Mexico
The Mayan snake deity Kukulkan descends
El Castillo pyramid at sunset on the Equinox.
Bluebird of Happiness Day
24•SEPT
According to Navajo & Cochiti legend, the sun admires the bluebird's color so much that every time its rays touch the mist of a waterfall it adds the bird's color to the rainbow.
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
- H. D. Thoreau
World Dream Day
25 • SEPT
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
International Rabbit Day
26•SEPT•26
RABBITS are contemplative, social & protective.
Highly attuned to their surroundings, they tread lightly; emerge under the soft light of dawn & dusk; frolic under the darkness of New Moons; scurry in & out of underground burrows - other worldly realms?
Follow the white rabbit.
FRUIT MOON
Full Moon in September
THE HARVEST MOON
The Full Moon closest to the
Autumnal Equinox
26•SEPT•26
Hazel Moon • Barley Moon
Full Corn Moon • Singing Moon
Fruit readies for picking. Grains ready for harvest. A time to find balance. Settle into slower rhythms after the energetic summer. Prepare for winter & give thanks for earth's abundance • Learn more
World River Day
27•SEPT•26
"Going to see the river man,
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban, On feeling free.
If he tells me all he knows,
About the way his river flows
I don't suppose, It's meant for me."
- Nick Drake
Greater Eleusinian Mysteries
26 SEPT -2 OCT•2026
A 10-day, Hellenistic era initiation ceremony held during the month of Boedromion for the cult of Demeter & Persephone - bringers of life, death and rebirth.
If you die before you die,
You won't die when you die.
Also revered were Demeter - as Mother Nature,
Kore - as the harvested grain, & Dionysos -as the harvested grape.
Art by Jean Delville
Michaelmas
the Earth breaths in
29 • SEPT
"Asters are stars fetched from the night skies and planted on the fields of day."
September's flower the Aster, also known as the Michaelmas Daisy, or Starwort helps align your heart, mind & consciousness, and supports clearer communication with your Higher Self and your angels.
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