3/21/2005: Vernal equinox
It'd be a good day to be at Stonehenge.
I think the equinox was actually the 20th this year.. close enough. I usually think of the solstices & equinoxes as being on the 21st anyway.
The vernal/spring and winter equinox are the only times when day & night are equal lengths.. it's a time of balance, a time to put our lives back into balance. In the wayback machine, today would have been the new year: winter's end, new crops, new babies in the woods & barns. New life growing out of the ground and gardens again.
Now we have the calendar telling us "First Day of Spring", astronomers telling us about solar equators, and religions telling us about miracles.. but it's all the same. It's all about starting over.
Lennon sang about "some kind of druid dudes lifting the veil".. what a great line. Happy new year.
