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It was spring in the northern hemisphere ~20 hours & 16 minutes ago, & I blew it — fall in the southern hemisphere, too. Oh well.
Season changes are something I can trumpet here. Unlike a lot of astronomical things, the times are applicable worldwide, modulo a hemisphere. ;) #vernalEquinox
A Blessed Spring Equinox to all! The Sun has now entered Aries, marking the Astrological New Year.
My friend and fellow astrologer Elizabeth Liz Muschett invited me to talk about it with our friend and fellow astrologer Justin Crockett Elzie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUxcNPDTbs&list=PLrRNEIG1FSbPEzYnVOuHxgwQYpJAe5JiM&index=1&t=3s
A spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shoots
So much is terrible in the world right now, but at least I’m not looking at lettuce as a grocery line-item expense on the first day of spring. That’s not because I’ve renounced leafy greens as a sandwich fixing, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter.
Alongside them in the raised bed outside the back patio, parsley and, even less likely, cilantro have staged their own late-winter resurrections.
I can’t imagine why even the most fault-tolerant of these plants should have done that. This winter, unlike many in recent years, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple snow days that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even building a cold frame should have been inadequate.
Having done nothing to prolong those crops, I should have had to start from scratch about two weeks before today, scattering dirt and seeds and looking forward to seeing the first green shoots emerge from the soil later this month.
(To anybody reading this intimidated by the idea of starting a vegetable garden: It’s hard to screw up arugula in the spring, and it’s also hard to find a recipe that can’t be improved with a little of it.)
Instead, after 20 years of having this questionably-productive hobby, I now need to decide if want to dig up some of these survivors to try growing some lettuce to mix things up. And if this means that my long losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes might be due for a change in a couple of months. This unearned gardening luck is not much in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll take it.
Ostara is the pagan celebration of the Spring Equinox. That exquisite, fleeting moment of completely balanced equality between day and night. As the sun continues its march around the horizon, day will become longer and night shorter until the dayside peaks at the Summer Solstice (Litha). Your friends at MoonLit pray that you find balance in your life with this Ostara poem.
https://blog.moonlitpress.org/element-of-balance-ostara-02025
#Springtime
#Poetry
#Paganism
#VernalEquinox
#Balance
#wordsbyterryl #writing #fullMoon
#pagan
Ostara is the pagan celebration of the Spring Equinox. That exquisite, fleeting moment of completely balanced equality between day and night. As the sun continues its march around the horizon, day will become longer and night shorter until the dayside peaks at the Summer Solstice (Litha). Your friends at MoonLit pray that you find balance in your life with this Ostara poem.
https://blog.moonlitpress.org/element-of-balance-ostara-02025
#Springtime
#Poetry
#Paganism
#VernalEquinox
#Balance
#wordsbyterryl #writing #fullMoon
#pagan
#VernalEquinox is now trending across Mastodon
Happy First Day of Spring!
(in the northern hemisphere)
Equinócio da Primavera 2025: Primavera enganada pelo Inverno. #EquinócioPrimavera #vernalequinox #équinoxprintemps #vintagepostcards #Cartespostalesanciennes
wind chimes welcome spring
gentle equinox, it’s breeze
barely stirs the soul
exit, pursued by a lamb,
to bumble bees and birdsong
hastily written vernal thoughts for the equinox:
The sun crossed the equator at 9:01am this morning on its way to the Tropic of Cancer on 21st June. The best time of year in the Northern Hemisphere has begun!
#MarchEquinox #VernalEquinox #Spring #Equinox
Happy first morning of Spring!
Where in #RochMN we have more snow on the ground than we've had all winter!
The good news is that we needed the moisture and it should be all melted in a couple of days.
Happy Equinox, happy Ostara. Properly spring now. The air smells sweetly of spring and the promise of the summer that is yet to come.
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Happy equinox!
On yesterday's neighborhood walk, there was a lawn just covered with early crocuses (𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴):
The #VernalEquinox (in the #NorthernHemisphere) will occur in about an hour and half’s time of positing at 09:01Z. The #Sun will be precisely overhead at noon on the #Equator just off the coast of #Somalia when this happens. For the whole planet, #day and #night will be of equal length (as makes no odds) and #Sunrise will be due #East and #Sunset will be due #West. Roll on #Spring.