The world feels anything but balanced these days. Hatred, discord, dishonesty, disrespect, war: we’ve been tending the weeds in our world garden for years now, and these are the things we’ve chosen to sow and harvest. But despite the follies of our ways, Spring officially arrives today in the Northern Hemisphere. It comes with our Vernal Equinox: day and night are roughly equal now across this old earth, and in the next few days, the balance shifts and our Northern Hemisphere will begin to receive more daylight hours than night, while the reverse shift occurs in the Southern Hemisphere. The road to summer is more obvious now in the Northern Hemisphere; the road to winter more obvious in the Southern. At least until the June Solstice, when things begin to shift again. No day is ever the same as the wheel of the year turns. Nothing is permanent. And this gives us hope, too, that humanity will not be forever stuck in the collective anxiety of our current days.
Here in Lake Worth, which is currently in Eastern Daylight Time, 10:46 AM is the moment of equinox this time around. You might pause to mark the moment. Or you might neglect it completely. It makes no difference. The change, the balance, will come either way.
COME SEE US at the SHOP
We’re opening the shop this weekend (Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22) for the second of our Springtide Markets, where you can stock up on special things for the upcoming Easter season: handmade pysanky from Ukraine, handmade wooden bunnies from Germany and Sweden, paper egg containers from Germany, Swedish sweet and sour candies and licorice for your Easter basket, books and cards and more. 11 AM to 4 PM each day. We’ll be serving Swedish ginger snaps and black currant saft and our own Löfbergs Swedish coffee while you shop! Shop online, too!
Workshops, too! Currently on the calendar: Introduction to Encaustic Painting with instructor Glo Graham Sollecito on Saturday April 11 and Introduction to Pysanky with instructor Lissie Bartlett on Sunday April 12. More pasta making and book arts workshops soon to come!
Image: “Atlas Holding Up the Celestial Globe” by Guercino. Oil on canvas, 1646 [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons.