Spring Equinox 2024
A Zoom gathering hosted in Canada
In thinking about tonight’s coming together, dance came to mind. It is the turning in dancing that reminds me of the turning of the seasons.
Simply by turning we keep life in the dance. So we turn tonight but what do we turn to and from?
Could it be whatever happened in our winter will produce our spring?
If it is we will need to consider what happened in our winter.
As I reflect on my winter I first see 3 deaths, the death of Kieran, the death of Joan and the death of Mr Armstrong.
Kieran was in his fifties and was a friend when I was a student 30-odd years ago in Galway, the West of Ireland.
Joan was in her seventies. I met her in Birmingham when I was 17 and she became my spiritual mother.
Mr Armstrong was in his nineties and was my head teacher when I was a teenager whom I reacquainted with 11 years ago.
I absorb their deaths and take from them the goodness that I knew from each one of them. Their influence was already in my life yet somehow in their death that influence illuminated greater within.
Yet in my winter, there was not only death there was also new life. Perhaps in the darkness of the winter nights, we contemplate deeply our autumn and remember. Remember that person who made us smile. And in that moment we may be prompted to make contact. And should they reciprocate something new is created.
Christmas and New Year reconnect us with those important to us over our lifetime. There is a going down to our roots to our connections right back to our birth. We take too from these memories to see us through winter to the point we are now and then we turn upward again gradually as it is with the light.
Spring is now our time to rise from the darkness and walk with the light.
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