BS: Equinox Greetings

Subject: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:39 AM

To all our friends of the 'Cat :

Love, Blessings and Greetings of the Equinox to you all.

So mote it be.

Erica and Bryn

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 06:11 AM

And can't you feel it? Cripes it's suddenly Autumn!
Likewise seasonal love vibes to all x

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Micca
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 08:35 AM

Yeah, the same from me to all CS I think it is definately Autumn, chilly in the morning and as I left work for the day(about 1 hour ago) there was that classic smell of autumn, Burning Leaves, on the nose"
The Burning of the Leaves   

Now is the time for the burning of the leaves,
They go to the fire; the nostrils prick with smoke
Wandering slowly into the weeping mist.
Brittle and blotched, ragged and rotten sheaves!
A flame seizes the smouldering ruin, and bites
On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist.
The last hollyhock's fallen tower is dust:
All the spices of June are a bitter reek,
All the extravagant riches spent and mean.
All burns! the reddest rose is a ghost.
Spark whirl up, to expire in the mist: the wild
Fingers of fire are making corruption clean.
Now is the time for stripping the spirit bare,
Time for the burning of days ended and done,
Idle solace of things that have gone before,
Rootless hope and fruitless desire are there:
Let them go to the fire with never a look behind.
That world that was ours is a world that is ours no more.
They will come again, the leaf and the flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring;
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, naught for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.

Laurence Binyon

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 10:57 AM

over here, it's suddenly spring - trees almost completely covered with leaves when a few days ago they were bare, flowers all over the place, including displays set up by the Council in planters on many city streets.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 10:59 AM

And so it turns...nice added perspective, Sandra, thanks.:-)

Love, Light, and Blessings to all and much giving of thanks. i love this time of year.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 12:12 PM

Any more songs or poems or even photos for the season?

This is a bit off beam I know, but what the hay. I made this really tasty Autumnal stew thing that feels really seasonal & would look right proper in one of those cast iron witchy cauldron thingys some of you Wiccans use - maybe even better suited to bonfires around Samhain actually, but here goes:

Harvest Stew

* In a large pan: heat a glug of Oil, & saute a chopped Onion and some crushed Garlic.
* Add a teaspoon of Cumin seeds & a tablespoon of Paprika.
* Add to pan: one peeled and chopped Red Pepper, one peeled and chopped Butternut Squash, & one peeled and chopped Sweet Potato.
* Add a glass (1/3 pint) of Red Wine, & a couple of glasses (2/3 pint) of water, plus a Veggie Stock Cube. Add a can of Chopped Tomatoes.
* Place lid on pan. Bring to boil. Reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.
* Add a handful (3 oz) of Bulgar Wheat. Simmer with lid off, for a further 15 minutes.
* Season & Serve.

Topper!

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: open mike
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 01:44 PM

John McCutcheon has a song "Smells Like Soup at Our House" a good one for these days where (in the northern hemisphere) it is beginning to cool down at night.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 01:45 PM

Sounds delicious! I like the measurements (glug, some...) - and a happy Equinox to all.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:26 PM

I liked autumn better when I was still in Virginia. The colours were richer and more varied than in Essex UK.

Some warm bread with that soup?

slice soft baps or crusty rolls
place on baking sheet
spread with chunky apple sauce or thinly sliced apples
sprinkle with shredded mature cheddar or cinnamon
toast under grill until bubbly on top


Who's next?

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:30 PM

Well Tam, what can I say, Essex is pants and made of grey stuff - also like some peoples pants (or so it is alleged)...

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:31 PM

Some of the *people* in it are nice though :)

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 02:35 PM

Well the Blueridge Mountains are famous for the autumn colour show. So I have been spoiled.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:15 PM

My sunflowers are bent over like ancient crones, heavy with seeds which have not quite dropped. Last year's brought a whole bed full of babies last spring; so many, I had to thin them out. This year's I think I will broadcast elsewhere as I don't want them taking over the perennial bed, though they have been very companionable.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:21 PM

Happy Equinox???? How silly.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:34 PM

"silly"

With handle like Bonzo3legs you can talk?

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: SharonA
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:34 PM

The horse and the bovine say hello.














(The equine and the ox, of course, of course!)

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:56 PM

"With handle like Bonzo3legs you can talk?"

That med me laff out loud!

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 04:57 PM

SharonA - it took me an absolute age for that'un to sink in...!

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:18 PM

Greetings? Bah! Here begins 3 months of SAD decline & depression until I emerge reborn on the solstice...

Autumn Equinox 2009 : Tuesday 22 Sept. 21.18 GMT.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 06:23 PM

St. Johns Wort SO'P. Taken thrice a day, every day, throughout the dark months.
That or a relocation to the antipodes, where it is now Spring.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 06:50 PM

Equinox, just happens, night as long as day just once, you can't help it, any more than being born or dying.

Happy everything!

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: open mike
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 02:27 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=114584#2446824
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=113984#2430033
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110923-autumnal-equinox-northern-hemisphere-first-day-fall-2011-science/
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-autumnal-equinox-of-2011

it has been fall now since 5:04 a.m. Mudcat time

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: open mike
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 03:09 PM

Here is an Equinox Song   from the D.T. there is also a song called Equinoxial, with the line
she can do more work in a day than i can do in three...

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 04:10 PM

Happy equinox, all, I'm late but not never!

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:02 PM

Why won't the egg stand up on its end??? It still falls over...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:07 PM

I wrote to Canada's PM to express that imo the Minister of Defence should resign.

This is both why the egg won't stand on its end and why I will never vote for this f####ng government.


Please know that your e-mail message has been received in the Prime Minister's Office and that your comments have been noted. Our office always welcomes hearing from correspondents and being made aware of their views.

Thank you for writing.

Sachez que le Cabinet du Premier ministre a bien reçu votre courriel et que nous avons pris bonne note de vos commentaires. Nous aimons être bien informés de l'opinion des correspondants.

Je vous remercie d'avoir écrit au Premier ministre.


I will likely become a Wiccan. I figure if everyone's gonna lose a tenuous grasp on reality, I'd be crazy not to join them.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:15 PM

Glad someone is on the case and we got the right guy on it...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: ragdall
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:44 PM

Equinox Greetings.
Happy Fall! or
Happy Spring!
Whichever applies to you.

999? Next time you write to the PM, could you please ask him to do something about this freakin' rain? Surely there is a drought somewhere in the world to which Canada could redirect the weather that has plagued British Columbia all "summer"?

Thanks,
rags

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 09:52 PM

Consider it done, Rags.

I will message you later or tomorrow to get the e-mail addresses sorted out.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: open mike
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 10:23 PM

http://www.wikihow.com/Balance-an-Egg
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042824071

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: open mike
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AqiINcLcuI

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:47 PM

Merry Equinox! Time to start tucking in the seeds as the leaves begin fall from the trees at least up here in the North. the same greetings to you all down under. May we all look forward to a bountiful year as the quiet dark time falls upon the earth. I still have flowers blooming here so it won't come so quickly, but I shall know this winter that underneath the snow the beautiful little plants are just waiting planning their bursting forth in the spring time when the dark time is done.

Love y'allkat

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:34 PM

It's autumn equinox time in the Northern Hemisphere,
and Canada has a federal election going,
and Iceland has volcanoes waking up,
... the joint is jumpin' ?

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:37 PM

Along with all the turtles that will fall asleep and bears hibernate and we get up later and later annyoying our dogs and cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 04:15 AM

Bears don't hibernate. Just sayin'.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 06:51 AM

Bears go into a sort of semi-torpor during the winter months, and can rouse themselves if necessary, to get food or defend their dens. (This sounds exactly like me!)
Happy Equinox to everyone. Celebratory crumpets all round I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 07:50 AM

Ooh, equinox butter, a new tradition!

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 08:46 AM

The sky puts on a show here at equinox. The harvest moon also seems more spectacular.
To make this season/year a happier space for all I have learned to customize mudcat.org and no longer will allow Steve Shaw to impinge upon my consciousness. His posts will no longer appear on my page except in archive.
I can easily keep an open mind without framing all my ideas with Steve posts claiming antithetical nonsense. My Shel Silverstienesque works will not be distracted by narcisistic critiques. Naturally I will see honest community feedback.

Keeping a simplicity in the midst of complexities is my goal and is best served by my own filter. Like a dog barking at the moon, the moon will not hear it or care. Only the dog's neighbors can be annoyed or overjoyed, its their choice.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Charmion
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 12:40 PM

An equinoctial gale is blowing through Stratford, wrenching leaves off the trees and tossing everything about. Rain will follow, fer sure.

After a long night at the District Returning Office and an early morning Zoom meeting about the choir’s annual general meeting on Friday, I’m going back to bed. A tornado might disturb me, but nothing milder is likely to catch my attention.

The slamming door you heard yesterday was Summer leaving the building. Welcome to Autumn, everyone, or Spring if that’s your orientation.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 01:52 PM

It's just that bears don't hibernate, that's all. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 05:03 PM

Do they shit in the woods?

And isn't equinox the proper name for laughing gas?

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 05:55 PM

They do, but do one-legged ducks swim in circles?

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 03:21 AM

It's today BTW

Ecstatic Equinox Everyone

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 04:00 AM

Heard on QI from Stephen Fry who could not tell a lie, on the subject of AI (genuine eg) inventing jokes:

Q What do you get if you crossed a washing machine with September?

A an Autumnmatic

OK,OK, I'm only the messenger

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 04:38 AM

Well this year so far in Cornwall, September has been a rock-solid summer month. It's a bit of a cool, misty start on this equinoctial day but we're expecting sun and a temperature in excess of 20C again. The equinox is a point in time. In the UK today it occurs at 8.21pm.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 05:38 AM

Good opportunity to play Mr Fox's Equinox

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 06:43 AM

There was a beautiful nearly-full moon rising above the village at about 8pm last night. Bright orange.
And today it's sunny and warm. Husband off to clean the High School until 9pm, poor chap. But his Wednesday Covid test was negative (as usual) thank the Lord.
I suppose I'd better 'get my arse into gear' and do a bit of weeding and window-cleaning. Not very festive, but I shall feel quite virtuous.
Later I'll sit on The Bench and chat to passing villagers and their dogs in the warm sunshine.
Looks like being a really nice Equinox! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 06:55 AM

It was a full moon last night, Sen. The Harvest moon - Nearest full moon to the equinox. It's waning gibbous today. My favourite is just before full moon when it is waxing gibbons :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 07:35 AM

It's a bit of a conundrum that, on the day on which the equinox occurs, most places on Earth get more than 12 hours' sunlight. The extra minutes get more as you move closer to the poles, as much as 15 minutes or more extra in the Arctic, for example. It's to do with the fact that, at sunrise and sunset, the sun's light is diffracted (bent) by the atmosphere, meaning that we actually see the sun "above the horizon" a little while before astronomical sunrise and a little while after sunset. The lower the angle at which the sun rises or sets, which is what happens the further from the equator you go, the greater the effect. At the equator, the sun on this day plunges vertically down below the horizon at sunset, so there's little or no discernible effect. Here in Cornwall, at 50 degrees north, today's sun reaches a maximum of just 40 degrees above the horizon, and at sunset it will slide gently down at a low angle, making the diffraction effect last longer. Etcetera!

It's another lovely day here, by the way. The shirt is off, the shorts are rolled up and I'll be cutting the grass this afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Equinox Greetings
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 08:06 AM

Equinox as seen from space