The Door

Every once in a while, it is interesting to consider the two great lights we have in our day and night skies. The sun has left through the door of the winter solstice and is marching it's way back again northward. Already, the days and daytime hours are getting longer, and if you discriminate, you can feel the air warming with the sun's rays penetrating through. Soon enough, the winter chill will give way to fair spring breezes and the earth will respond to the sun by bursting forth blooms, and greening the grasses and accelerating the saps through the trees. It will be wonderful to see the interplay between the sun and the earth, and how the two will give life and light to all of our known creation.

And then there is the moon. The passive and active mirror to the sun, receiving the solar light and reflecting it to the earth and the fields and the waters. The moon is waning gibbous right now, around 97% full according to my lunar calculator. So the sun is approaching and waxing while the moon is receding and waning.

I was thinking today how it would be a wonderful myth if the moon were the carrier of all the griefs, the frets, the disappointments, the doubts and other 'negative' emotions, and transmitted them all, manifesting in night, while the sun would be the carrier of all the blessed hopes, victories, right aspirations and new beginnings, thus resulting in the broad daylight. These emotions all ebb and flow, just as do the motions of the sun and moon, and there is always a little hope in dread, where the sunlight is reflected from the moon in the darkest night, and there's always a little dread in hope, where the moon can be seen during the daylight often times and the fact that there are lunar and solar eclipses.

So this line of thinking really falls into the macrocosm, microcosm theory where what we experience personally is manifested cosmologically, and vice versa. Jung called it synchronicity, in popular parlance it would be called coincidence.

I call it magic!