As we sit in perfect balance between 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night...
I'm going to take today off from blogging!
Happy Equinox everyone~!
Showing posts with label Equinox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Equinox. Show all posts
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Autumnal Equinox greetings
The way I've looked it up, Gaia, our glorious globe the earth, will be standing upright at 4:45 EDT this afternoon...with the sunlight balanced perfectly as she tilts away and towards her poles, like a lovely blue top.
Isn't it fascinating to think of her core of molten magma, full of magnetic fields which somehow align with the poles, which somehow help birds and insects and maybe everything else, migrate in the right direction, finding home.
Everything else? Well, how about the compasses?? Simple that iron (or even a steel needle) points north...when floated on a non-metalic surface...and thus Columbus got to our shores. Of course knowing the stars helped navigation, and having a sextant too. And having a clock that could keep working in order to tell correct time over 24 hours. Well, so some TV show led me to believe, all these things together helping men (sorry women, it really was men) navigate the seas and thus civilized (i.e. Western Europe) people took over the Americas.
Just think if they'd gone straight to India as they intended...
Ah, what do you intend to do today?
I intend to just be.
Happy first day of Autumn for my friends in North America.
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| Not my photo, from Wikipedia images |
Isn't it fascinating to think of her core of molten magma, full of magnetic fields which somehow align with the poles, which somehow help birds and insects and maybe everything else, migrate in the right direction, finding home.
Everything else? Well, how about the compasses?? Simple that iron (or even a steel needle) points north...when floated on a non-metalic surface...and thus Columbus got to our shores. Of course knowing the stars helped navigation, and having a sextant too. And having a clock that could keep working in order to tell correct time over 24 hours. Well, so some TV show led me to believe, all these things together helping men (sorry women, it really was men) navigate the seas and thus civilized (i.e. Western Europe) people took over the Americas.
Just think if they'd gone straight to India as they intended...
Ah, what do you intend to do today?
I intend to just be.
Happy first day of Autumn for my friends in North America.
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| The delightful French Broad River, Asheville, NC |
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Happy Vernal Equinox all you Pagans!
Not a pagan? Well you have a happy Saturday...the day named after
one of those pagan gods...like every day of our calendar, and most
months too!
So when the wheel of the year turns, and you realize you're part of the gravity here...enjoy that our dear earth is still turning through the seasons!
I happen to try to live close to the earth, though not as much as some of my friends. What I do try to do is remember that I'm part of nature, not separate, and certainly not in charge of it.
Well, I do have to take out the trash, feed the animals, and clean up after us all. That's the part I'm in charge of.
Have you seen the new TV show on NBC called "Revolution"? A take off perhaps from Kevin Cosner's movie "The Postman," along with input from a book "One Second After" by William Forstchen, a local Montreat/Black Mountain author. His book is scarey enough, but is a good wake-up call to how fragile our technological lives are. I liked that many of the local sites came into play in the book. I haven't decided whether I like Revolution or not.
Now why am I watching a post-apocalyptic TV show? It's fascinating. I don't expect I'd survive very long if any of these doomsday events happened, so I can just look at them with interest that's not predicated on fear for my own survival.
So the equinox gives me pause, and I eagerly run out into nature to grasp the experience. A day and night of equal length. How truly wonderful. I will roll around in the pile of leaves that someone else raked (virtually that is), while enjoying that feeling of warm sun on one side of my body as the other feels the coldness of winter winds approaching
So when the wheel of the year turns, and you realize you're part of the gravity here...enjoy that our dear earth is still turning through the seasons!
I happen to try to live close to the earth, though not as much as some of my friends. What I do try to do is remember that I'm part of nature, not separate, and certainly not in charge of it.
Well, I do have to take out the trash, feed the animals, and clean up after us all. That's the part I'm in charge of.
Have you seen the new TV show on NBC called "Revolution"? A take off perhaps from Kevin Cosner's movie "The Postman," along with input from a book "One Second After" by William Forstchen, a local Montreat/Black Mountain author. His book is scarey enough, but is a good wake-up call to how fragile our technological lives are. I liked that many of the local sites came into play in the book. I haven't decided whether I like Revolution or not.
Now why am I watching a post-apocalyptic TV show? It's fascinating. I don't expect I'd survive very long if any of these doomsday events happened, so I can just look at them with interest that's not predicated on fear for my own survival.
So the equinox gives me pause, and I eagerly run out into nature to grasp the experience. A day and night of equal length. How truly wonderful. I will roll around in the pile of leaves that someone else raked (virtually that is), while enjoying that feeling of warm sun on one side of my body as the other feels the coldness of winter winds approaching
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