Nature’s forward motion

We are creatures all living in eternal spring. Never ripe, forever ripening. — Ellis Felker

The spring solstice is upon us. The vernal equinox. The beginning of spring.

After today’s equinox, the northern hemisphere will experience more daylight than darkness in each 24-hour period. The amount of daylight each day will continue to increase until the summer solstice in June, during which the longest period of daylight occurs. Interestingly, the spring and fall equinoxes are the only two times each year that the sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth! It’s a time to celebrate light, wonder, and unity.

The change of seasons is a powerful and spiritual time. I have always been one who wakes with the first daylight and rests when darkness falls so the longer daylight makes me happy and productive. It is the dawning of a new growing year, not only for the plants, trees and flowers around us, but for our own selves.

What will we do with the season ahead? We all write our life stories by the choices we make. So many answers can be found in the rhythm and flow of nature’s forward motion.