We’re just about at the equinox — the sun will cross over the equator at 7:37pm AEST on Saturday (20 March), and our nights will be longer than our days.
In Australia, the seasons are defined using full calendar months (autumn is March, April and May), but in some parts of the world the solstices and equinoxes are used to mark the transition between seasons. Here, the past few days have been lovely autumn days, so it seems appropriate that we’ve “officially” been in autumn for the past couple of weeks.
Phases of the moon aren’t related to the equinox, but right now we’ve got a new moon, leading up the full moon at Easter.
Musings and Mutterings 
I am one of those people that believe that ‘mother nature’ defines the seasons and that they coincide with the equinoxes and solstices, and not an arbitrary date on the calendar. Indeed Easter will have a full moon as it’s always the first full moon following the equinox as is Chinese New year which is, I believe 2 full moons after the solstice.
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