Autumnal Equinox: Day=Night
Sep. 21st, 2006 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaTHE FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN--SEPTEMBER 20th to 23rd, and all times in between
Depending on which website/info source you trust, the Autumnal Equinox is either at sunset today, or Sept. 22nd at 9:03 pm, or Sept. 23 at 12:03 AM EDT, or on the 23rd at 4:03 PM. Anyway, we'll have gone through it by the end of the weekend.
So we have the Equinox *and* we have Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) beginning tomorrow at sunset. There must be some power in rituals or undertakings begun/completed on this day. If only I could think of one that I really need/want to do--one that isn't completely self-centered and selfish, anyway. I don't mean a "pagan ritual," necessarily, or an OCD-type ritual, but just some kind of acknowledgement to mark the day.
I'll probably just lie around on the other couch coughing, as the Cold From Hell has gone downstairs into my ample chest. *hack* Maybe the doctor will have a moment to see me and figure out whether there might be a bacterial infection going on. . . .
According to one site, "the Fall Equinox is also known as Alban Elfed, Cornucopia, Feast of Avilon, Festival of Dionysus, Harvest Home, Harvest Tide, Mabon, Night of the Hunter, Second Harvest Festival, Wine Harvest, and Witches' Thanksgiving." Well . . . seeing as how I got middle-named for Dionysus, perhaps that's the festival I'm supposed to be celebrating, but I just haven't felt much kinship for that mindset lately. Have you, Dennis?
Depending on which website/info source you trust, the Autumnal Equinox is either at sunset today, or Sept. 22nd at 9:03 pm, or Sept. 23 at 12:03 AM EDT, or on the 23rd at 4:03 PM. Anyway, we'll have gone through it by the end of the weekend.
So we have the Equinox *and* we have Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) beginning tomorrow at sunset. There must be some power in rituals or undertakings begun/completed on this day. If only I could think of one that I really need/want to do--one that isn't completely self-centered and selfish, anyway. I don't mean a "pagan ritual," necessarily, or an OCD-type ritual, but just some kind of acknowledgement to mark the day.
I'll probably just lie around on the other couch coughing, as the Cold From Hell has gone downstairs into my ample chest. *hack* Maybe the doctor will have a moment to see me and figure out whether there might be a bacterial infection going on. . . .
According to one site, "the Fall Equinox is also known as Alban Elfed, Cornucopia, Feast of Avilon, Festival of Dionysus, Harvest Home, Harvest Tide, Mabon, Night of the Hunter, Second Harvest Festival, Wine Harvest, and Witches' Thanksgiving." Well . . . seeing as how I got middle-named for Dionysus, perhaps that's the festival I'm supposed to be celebrating, but I just haven't felt much kinship for that mindset lately. Have you, Dennis?
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The Autumnal Equinox
Date: 2006-09-22 01:15 pm (UTC)But I stand by Dionysus, not being abstemious as are you. I do this in full awareness that they didn't have martinis back in Ancient Greece, too. What did the old boy do to earn your wrath, Shallanita?
(Hmmm! New pseudonym in case you try your hand at writing Hispanic novels? In Spanish it would be pronounced "Shy Anita." Might be fun, and socially uplifting, too.