When we were considering what gesture/pattern of movement we might use for the March Equinox, the lemniscate (the symbol for infinity, the figure 8) came to mind. Those celebrating the Summer Solstice walked outward from the center of the spiral–their place of Sovereignty and Identity–mirroring the time of Gaia’s most expansive outbreath and the greatest manifestation of light. This mirrored the pause at the point of Gaia’s greatest in-breath, and the greatest manifestation of darkness. Those of us celebrating the Winter Solstice walked a spiral of our making inward, to a point of stillness and introspection–Sovereignty and Identity. Our festival movement/gesture for the December Solstices was the spiral. Members of the Commons from the South stand in the Doorway between Summer/Fall, inviting the withdrawal and narrowing of light/life into seed and more focused intent. By celebrating Spring and Fall Equinox together, we are once again working with a rhythm, a rhythm of balance and invitation as Earth’s breath expands and contracts. We in the North stand in the Doorway between Winter/Spring, inviting new growth/blossoming and widening light. In our planning conversations we observed that the March Equinox becomes a Threshold/Doorway where Gaia’s breath, expanding since the Winter Solstice in the Northern hemisphere, and contracting since the Summer Solstice in the Southern hemisphere, meets in the middle, so to speak, at the equator. The Equinox marks a moment of Threshold, Balance and Pause, when the tilt of the planet in its orbit means that the sun’s rays fall in a horizontal line along the earth’s equator. At the time of the Spring and Fall Equinox, day and night, light and dark are balanced and of approximately equal duration all over the planet. The term ‘Equinox” is derived from aequus (equal) and nox (night). As we prepare for the March Equinox, the second in our seasonal Gaian festival explorations, our planning evoked new images and insights for the Equinox, what that gateway brings the planet, and what it can mean for us. This year in the Commons we are exploring ways to create nature festivals as Gaian celebrations focused on the earth’s seasonal experience of its wholeness from both the Southern and Northern hemisphere’s perspectives.
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