Autumn Equinox Cacao: A Candlelight Affair with Mars & Venus
Tue, Sep 22
|Quietude Retreat Center
6:33-8:33pm Doors open at 6:15 Align with the rhythms of the cosmos while settling deeply into stillness, presence, and restoration. Donation-Based, Suggested $33-55 Registration Encouraged
Time & Location
Sep 22, 2026, 6:33 PM – 8:33 PM
Quietude Retreat Center, 1130 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain, NC 28711, USA
About the event
About the event
Autumnal Equinox Cacao: A Candlelight Affair with Mars & Venus
Balancing the Cosmic Within
Tuesday, September 22nd 6:33-8:33PM
Join David & Michelle at Quietude on September 22nd as day and night kiss in equal measure, holding the world in a breathtaking, breathless pause. At 8:04 PM the solar fire masculine season of active growth, heat, and outward light slowly surrenders its crown to the lunar depth of the feminine energy, ushering in reflection, intuition, and the quiet return to the earth. In this cosmic alignment, action finds its stillness, and giving meets receiving. All outer planets and Chiron will be in retrograde ushering Venus into her shadow phase before she goes retrograde for 40 days. This will serve as a prelude into reflecting on our personal relationships and our own underworld journeys. We will rest in a moment, balancing our own inner fire and fluid grace in…