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March 2025 Equinox Festival: Balance and Resilience in Turbulent Times
Festivals are a time of celebration, a time when humankind honors Gaia’s essential energies in its dance through the seasons of the year. When we celebrate winter’s deep renewing silence or the vitality of summer’s growth, we touch into energies that can open spaciousness or uplift and renew us. Celebrating Nature’s seasonal energies also connects us with valuable resources we can draw upon to meet the turbulence of daily life and current human affairs.
Twelfth Night - A Winter’s Tale
The forest around me was utterly still. No wind stirred the bare winter branches or rustled the fallen leaves. No bird called; no animal crept through the shadows. I gazed out into the woods surrounding the cabin and was startled to see that the forest was beginning to glow with an unearthly light. I searched for the moon above the treetops, as the logical source of the sylvan glow, but then remembered that the moon was new and dark. I could see a myriad of stars through the trees – sparkling like diamonds in the crystal-clear sky, but their radiance could not account for the growing light around me.
My Dragonfly - A Summer’s Tale
One of my ways of finding stillness is to step into nature, most often my garden, either putting my hands in the soil, snipping a plant here or there, feeling the warm breeze on my skin, or listening to the deafening sounds of cicadas at dusk. These experiences, and more, slow me down - help me to find my center in my busy world.
Maramataka
As we approach this September Equinox, I was preparing by focusing on the time of balance and the equality of day and night time, on that moment between the shifting of light and seasons. Then with the super full Moon we have just experienced here, I realized we all have the same moon cycle wherever we are on Gaia. Our planetary rhythms dance in and out of wholeness itself!
A Time of Balance
But what really stirs my heart is the night sky, so clear, so full of stars. The Southern Cross is the smallest constellation in the night sky. The Crux as it is called holds special meaning in Australia and New Zealand. There is an Aboriginal myth that uses the Southern Cross to tell the time. Paying attention to which way its tail is facing, they ask someone to, “wake me up when the Cross turns over.”