Arbitrary List of Popular Lights - Fall Equinox 2023 Edition
In honor of Fall Equinox, I've made an updated list of popular lights. Days are getting shorter and nights are getting longer - it might be time for a new flashlight.
Autumn Equinox, my favourite holiday. May you find your balance between giving and receiving, between work and rest, between caring for others and caring for your self. May you find your balance in the dark, may you find it in the light, may you find it in the middle. 💚🐦⬛
Autumn is here. And soon, rumor has it, rain. Real rain. Meaning we might just have an October where I don’t have to be hypervigilant about fire!
It is my sincere hope that #ClimateChange means that our rainy season will shift too and maybe even cancel the fall fire season. Hey, a girl can dream.
In the meantime, Lucy demands admiration. So admire her! 😁♥️
Celebrating the equinox or solstice makes as much sense as any religion. Except of course, the equinox is a demonstrable thing, with like, you know, actual effects on our lives and planet. #equinox #atheist
Happy #Equinox to all who celebrate. Today, day and night are of approximately equal length. From now on, the days get shorter in the Northern hemisphere as #Persephone descends to the underworld and Demeter's sadness halts any plant growth until her daugher returns in Spring. Unless it is actually in winter that Persephone is with #Demeter. Both interpretations are compelling.
As it's Spring Equinox here in Australia, I think poetry is in order. Here's Spring, The Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare....
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
In every street these tunes our ears do greet:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!
Spring, the sweet spring!
Sad to say goodbye to summer 2023, although compared to recent years, it didn't quite live up to its name in my part of the world. Noticed the UK Met Office announcing today as the official start of autumn, the same Met Office that makes a point of describing 'meteorological autumn' arriving on 1 September – it's just confusing.
Looking forward to the new palette of colour as the season matures.
Happy 2nd global-sun-setting-exactly-due-west day!
We often use the generic statement "the sun sets in the west", but that's only globally true on two days, the equinoxes. And one of those is today; though of course whether it's the vernal or the autumn one depends on whether you're in the southern or northern hemisphere respectively.
I think #Latin#equinox or #equinoctium is quite interesting on how it relates to night, while #German Tagundnachtgleiche and #Dutch dag-en-nachtevening literally describe that day and night are equal. I must admit the Dutch one is quite funny since, from a multilingual perspective, it seems to include three times of the day. 😉 #Norwegian jevndògn, #Danish jævndògn, #Icelandic jafndægur (equal day), and #Swedish dagjämning (day equalisation) do the opposite of Latin and relate to day instead; also mirrored in #Finnish päiväntasaus. #Arabic sees a different angle and calls it الاعتدال"alaietidal" (moderation). #etymology#language#linguistics#astronomy
The #September#Equinox will occur in about 15 minute from now (06:49Z) when the #Sun will be directly overhead about the #Equator at #midday somewhere over the #IndianOcean. #Autumn begins for people on this half of the world and #Spring for the other half.