Perhaps my yearning is what has grown longer, deeper, definitely more intense.
If I were disciplined enough to walk every day, I might have actual days through the years, but these are pretty close.
Showing posts with label Spring Equinox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Equinox. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Happy Oestra, Spring Equinox
Yes, today finally there is as much daylight as nighttime. We have been dreaming of this for weeks...sharing our first blossoms together, sighing that this is so slow this year. But I looked at some of the blooms around me, and found they are within a day of when they bloomed last year.
Perhaps my yearning is what has grown longer, deeper, definitely more intense.
March 20, 2018
March 23, 2019
March17, 2020
If I were disciplined enough to walk every day, I might have actual days through the years, but these are pretty close.
Perhaps my yearning is what has grown longer, deeper, definitely more intense.
If I were disciplined enough to walk every day, I might have actual days through the years, but these are pretty close.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Happy Equinox for Spring in northern hemisphere
Today at 12:15 EDT, while I eat my lunch, the earth's tilt will stop, then start back the other way.
I always think it must have slowed down ever so slowly...maybe the week before, then reached that moment of stop-tilt. But then this is a huge ball of matter (water in those basins of the oceans) with molten magma down inside her...so her tilting one way and then moving to tilt the other, is quite a production. All the while she spins through a cycle of 24 hours on her axis, and flies around her wonderful sun...and there's a sweet little rock of a moon flirting with her through the days as well.
You have to wonder. Yes, have wonder. Be full of the sense of how wonderful this cosmic event is.
Thanks to poets for reminding us. Thanks to artists of depicting some semblance of the connection we all have to nature. All the life we know depends on this amazing planet continuing to do as it's done for time out of time.
It makes me very humble.
Quote for today:
I always think it must have slowed down ever so slowly...maybe the week before, then reached that moment of stop-tilt. But then this is a huge ball of matter (water in those basins of the oceans) with molten magma down inside her...so her tilting one way and then moving to tilt the other, is quite a production. All the while she spins through a cycle of 24 hours on her axis, and flies around her wonderful sun...and there's a sweet little rock of a moon flirting with her through the days as well.
You have to wonder. Yes, have wonder. Be full of the sense of how wonderful this cosmic event is.
Thanks to poets for reminding us. Thanks to artists of depicting some semblance of the connection we all have to nature. All the life we know depends on this amazing planet continuing to do as it's done for time out of time.
It makes me very humble.
Quote for today:
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Listen to
your life...touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it,
because in the last analysis all moments are key moments and life itself is
grace.
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Frederick
Buechner
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
Happy Oestra (Spring Equinox)
They were happy to come back inside...for a month or so!
What a pretty bed of blue (Periwinkle?) outside the library. And since they were in partial shade, they didn't bleach away but remained blue to the camera. If you know what this ground-cover blue plant is, please let me know!
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| Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess flies through the heavens surrounded by Roman-inspired putti, beams of light, and animals. Germanic people look up at the goddess from the realm below. Source: Wikipedia |
Friday, March 20, 2015
Happy Spring Equinox
And to start off this post, I want to mention a TED talk which I recently shared again with my FaceBook friends...though so far nobody has commented on it, so perhaps they are too busy to watch it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
This Harvard Business School professor talks about a way to approach a stressful situation which means spending 2 minutes in a powerful posture which influences your own hormones. Her test with students included them doing this, then having their cheeks swabbed, which showed higher level of the power hormone, testosterone and lower level of the stress hormone, cortisol. She also tested them in postures of low power or submisiveness. The stance of power actually changed their body chemistry! (Remember, women have testosterone also, the action hormone.)
Just saying...I need to prepare myself by taking a brief time in the ladies room before I meet Mrs. most-important-person-I-could-meet.
Maybe just for myself, even.
So here's a lovely photo I glomed from FB for the Equinox.
Mystic Mamma actually published this for the solar eclipse.
Happens the same day. Then the sun switches it's position relative to our dear myopic eyes on earth (while the earth is the one actually moving in relation to the sun!) so we call the sun in Aires rather than Pices.
There's a whole pseudo science called Astrology. I used to put a lot of belief in it, but never found it really defined my life that well. I prefer the newer science (the daughter of Astrology if you will) called Astronomy...especially since Hubble has afforded so many wonderful pictures that are available far and wide, and really deep and wide. There is certainly a fundamental awe that comes through all of these studies of our stars. I do wish science gave astrology credit for having defined a lot of the names in the universe.
But Spring is coming back here on earth. That is something that is present and right beneath my feet. May yours be full of abundance, joy, good health, love between everyone you know, good weather, great food, safety, mindfulness...and anything I've forgotten that's basically good.
http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
This Harvard Business School professor talks about a way to approach a stressful situation which means spending 2 minutes in a powerful posture which influences your own hormones. Her test with students included them doing this, then having their cheeks swabbed, which showed higher level of the power hormone, testosterone and lower level of the stress hormone, cortisol. She also tested them in postures of low power or submisiveness. The stance of power actually changed their body chemistry! (Remember, women have testosterone also, the action hormone.)
Just saying...I need to prepare myself by taking a brief time in the ladies room before I meet Mrs. most-important-person-I-could-meet.
Maybe just for myself, even.
So here's a lovely photo I glomed from FB for the Equinox.
Happens the same day. Then the sun switches it's position relative to our dear myopic eyes on earth (while the earth is the one actually moving in relation to the sun!) so we call the sun in Aires rather than Pices.
There's a whole pseudo science called Astrology. I used to put a lot of belief in it, but never found it really defined my life that well. I prefer the newer science (the daughter of Astrology if you will) called Astronomy...especially since Hubble has afforded so many wonderful pictures that are available far and wide, and really deep and wide. There is certainly a fundamental awe that comes through all of these studies of our stars. I do wish science gave astrology credit for having defined a lot of the names in the universe.
But Spring is coming back here on earth. That is something that is present and right beneath my feet. May yours be full of abundance, joy, good health, love between everyone you know, good weather, great food, safety, mindfulness...and anything I've forgotten that's basically good.
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