Issue #40 Mar 2025
“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.”
~Peter Ouspensky
Hi
Spring officially began a handful of days ago on March 20th.
It was a biological dawn, a delicate interplay between dormancy and resurgence. Not merely an unfolding, more a complex orchestration of physiological and biochemical processes that can capture attention.
Ancient myths often portray spring as a goddess’s awakening. Persephone’s return from the underworld in Greek mythology, for example, heralds the blossoming of flowers and the return of warmth to the earth.
Our cyclical journey between darkness and light, death and rebirth, ought to be a central theme in our lives, but we have become increasingly blind to it.
In Babylon, they held the Akitu festival complete with elaborate processions and reenactments of mythological events such as the victory of the god Marduk over the forces of chaos.
The Mayan civilization held ceremonies at their pyramids during the equinox – the most famous being at Chichen Itza, where the setting sun creates the illusion of a feathered serpent descending the pyramid’s steps.
We hardly notice the day. We no longer celebrate the dance of our planet with its mother the Sun.
Sincerely
RB
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