Spring Equinox 2020
The Vernal (Northward) Equinox, Start of Spring, Aries Ingress
For the ritually oriented and the curious, here are 2020 Spring Equinox times for Greenwich and the USA.
March 20, 2020
03:49:31 AM UT/GMT
March 19, 2020
11:49:31 PM EDT +4
10:49:31 PM CDT +5
09:49:31 PM MDT +6
08:49:31 PM PDT +7
05:49:31 PM AHST +10:00:00
[Daylight Saving Time, already in effect in the United States, starts in Great Britain and most of Europe on March 29, 2020. For a complete overview go here https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/events.html]
Eostre by AngiandSilas |
All points in the eight-fold year (defined by the astronomical measure of solstices, equinoxes, and the midpoints between those) are marked by human celebrations, holidays, and holy days. Those “coincidental” celebrations are not accidental but knowingly or circumstantially correspond to the astronomical. There are holy days with the Jewish and Christian calendars (also with Chinese, Hindu, and other systems of reckoning) that combine New and Full Moons with solstices and equinoxes. For example, the Full Moon after the Spring (Vernal) Equinox is Passover. The Sunday following that Full Moon is Easter (the preceding Friday is Good).
Ostara by Johannes Gehrts |
It is good to remember that the Solstices and Equinoxes are the markers for the Zodiac itself (not the constellations with same or similar names).
"Aries is the principle of Cosmic Individuality, which is the truth that everything of which we can speak or even think is a unity and possesses the rights of a unity. This, in a sense, may also be called Cosmic Strength. It gives rise to the virtue of Courage, and as its counterpart it has the delusion of egotism, or the belief that the rights of the individual are his only concern, the "struggle for existence" being deemed a permanent fact, beyond which it is not necessary to look. This produces such faults as arrogance."
- The Zodiac And The Soul, C. E. O. Carter (1887-1968)
Happy Solstice!
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