Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: 2023 Spring Equinox – where are you?
Hello, Spring? Where are you? Today is YOUR big day and I haven’t heard a peep out of you. Seriously we’re all getting a big concerned! 2022/23 Winter will go down in history if you have been reading social media platforms.
Our LONG, very wet/snowy winter has started to wear on all of us.
Ahh, but spring is here, maybe, hopefully. We look forward to the freshness of it, the hope it brings as we shake off winter and think about getting our hands in the soil again and smell the Earth! Head outside today and check out what’s happening in your landscape. Tread carefully as the soil may still be snow covered at most, wet at the least. As you can see below, I’m not doing ANYthing in my landscape today…
But hope springs eternal!
Equinox means equal night. The Equinox “officially” arrives at 4:24pm central time. Equinoxes are the only two times each year that the Sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth! While the Sun passes overhead, the tilt of the Earth is zero relative to the Sun, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun. (Note, however, that the Earth never orbits upright, but is always tilted on its axis by about 23.5 degrees.)
There are many ancient sites that mark the equinoxes (and solstices). One of the most famous ancient Spring equinox celebrations took place at Chichen Itza in Mexico. The Mayans built a huge pyramid around the year A.D. 1000. Even today, the way the Sun’s light falls on it signals the beginning of the seasons. On the spring equinox, it looks like a huge snake is slithering down the steps. Mayans called this day “the return of the Sun serpent.”
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