I really love it when springtime comes along and as you know the spring equinox means that the sun on its northward journey is passing directly over the equator where night and day are divided into equal parts.
The equinox has been celebrated by many ancient cultures not just as a rite of spring but an acknowledgement of deeper, more important rhythms and cycles of what nature really represents.. When you really start to study ancient cultures beyond just the existence of buildings and edifices that marked the movements of the equinoxes and the solstices you begin to realize the reason why those cultures felt that marking the progression of the seasons was so important beyond the idea of planting cycles.
The spring equinox if you look at just gardening is the time of planting your seeds and your saplings because the time of the winter has passed and therefore it is the time where we truly spring forth! But more deeply it is a time when the exuberance of the truth of our inner being starts to yield to the sunlight of that which motivates us in the 1st place beyond mere thinking and beyond mere physical activity into a more what we would call integral health.
Of course, integral health means mind, body, and spirit. The spiritual part is something that we are very much embracing as to how it informs our rational and practical minds creating a beautiful merging of both working seamlessly together.
In the springtime our thoughts do turn towards that which on the surface springtime means but it also means on a deeper level that you and I are part of these rhythms and cycles of our planet, our solar system, and the stars. It’s a way of saying that we really are part of all creation but there’s also a dynamic inner movement that motivates the orientation of these planets including our own lovely earth going through her seasons.
When the ancients made these edifices to mark the movement of the seasons, they were doing so to remind us of the importance of our natural flow and rhythm with all creation a much deeper way of looking at things than simply a planting cycle. With this type of reminder you and I can then focus on the true meaning of the cycles of the seasons and urge our own inner desires to grow in a way where we are much more self-empowered and more self-realized than if we only look at spring as being the time of coloring eggs and the Easter Bunny.
Even so, the eggs and the Easter Bunny are a representation of fertility which also means the potency that is latent in the seed of our desires that we water with the essence of the love of our hearts to externalize more and more of our own authentic self and that which we came here to be and to do.
This, you simply actuate by acknowledging the real meaning of the seasons and dedicate your thoughts and your meditations to continue this issuing or coming forth of what some yogis call the true self that then informs your physical mind of a higher more eloquent way of being and doing.
Blessings,
Dr. Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.
