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Equinox
Ailz says something as I'm going out the door and I don't quite get it.
"Hollyhocks?" I ask, making a guess at it.
"Equinox," she says.
Ah, yes, so it is! Day and Night are in perfect balance- a magical time.
(As though all times were not magical....)
I pick up The Witches Bible by Janet and Stuart Farrar and refresh my memory. The Autumn Equinox, they say, was when the Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated- at the climax of which-allegedly- the initiate was shown an ear of corn and told "In silence is the seed of of wisdom gained".
How very Quaker that is.
The Met office says it's cloudy this morning. The Met office is wrong. The sky is cloudless, the light is golden, the hills have moved very near.....
And I'm seeing blue tits. At least four of them. They have never visited this garden in such strength before- at least not while I've been watching. We're in the Council's black books for feeding "Big Birds" but that was never our intention. We're just feeding birds- and is it our fault if the small ones stay away?
Well, maybe that's changing.....
"Hollyhocks?" I ask, making a guess at it.
"Equinox," she says.
Ah, yes, so it is! Day and Night are in perfect balance- a magical time.
(As though all times were not magical....)
I pick up The Witches Bible by Janet and Stuart Farrar and refresh my memory. The Autumn Equinox, they say, was when the Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated- at the climax of which-allegedly- the initiate was shown an ear of corn and told "In silence is the seed of of wisdom gained".
How very Quaker that is.
The Met office says it's cloudy this morning. The Met office is wrong. The sky is cloudless, the light is golden, the hills have moved very near.....
And I'm seeing blue tits. At least four of them. They have never visited this garden in such strength before- at least not while I've been watching. We're in the Council's black books for feeding "Big Birds" but that was never our intention. We're just feeding birds- and is it our fault if the small ones stay away?
Well, maybe that's changing.....