Happy Equinox: A lesson from nature

Today is the Fall Equinox and it is not only a day that has been observed by countless traditions as a Holiday. It’s a day of balance; as the day and night have equal shares of the day. Looking at this from a Yin and Yang perspective you can see why observing this balance was important to the ancients as the sky is all they knew.

Now we know many things and have many new technologies which has advanced our frontiers of science but it also made the sky less of an awe inspiring mystery as it once was. Just because we have a grasp on what the stars are and why the sun sets and rises in the way it does, does not mean it should be any less wondrous or celebrated.

It is when we appreciate what is natural that civilization truly becomes civilized. The admiration of the circumstances that has brought us to this place is what we lost when we quantified the cosmos. This brought man to a feeling of above the natural and not a part of it. Maybe the ancients were not so wrong by celebrating these natural events, maybe if we can appreciate the day for what it is then we will have an appreciation for ourselves and who we are.