{"id":1283,"date":"2011-09-23T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T16:20:37","slug":"happy-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/23\/happy-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Equinox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/41bw-septembershadows.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-902\" title=\"41bw.Septembershadows\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/41bw-septembershadows.jpg?resize=450%2C449\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the Autumnal Equinox.\u00a0 I did a little research into what that means, so here it is: an equinox happens each year at two specific moments in time (rather than two whole days), when there is a location on the Earth&#8217;s equator, where the center of the Sun can be observed to be vertically overhead.\u00a0 Although it is not strictly true scientifically that the day of an equinox has exactly equal light and dark hours it is the closest that we come to that mark.\u00a0 It is that idea of balance that really intrigued me these past two weeks.\u00a0 As I wandered around the Ranch I was looking for a way to portray that balance of light and dark in a landscape, I was looking for something that said \u201cSeptember\u201d to me.\u00a0 September is an in between month, both visually and psychologically it still has the heat of summer but none of the luster, things are dusty and dry with no sign of rains relief, vacations are a distant memory and the grind and routine of work and school loom large.\u00a0 But this wonder called the equinox gives September something special, balance.\u00a0 What a wonderful metaphor to meditate on! The equal acceptance of light and dark, sun and shadows.\u00a0 When I was looking on the Internet at scientific explanations of the equinox there were several renderings of the earth in its relationship to the sun.\u00a0 As I pondered the pictures I realized that the autumn and spring Equinox mark the two days out of 365 in which every person on the planet experiences the same light and dark!\u00a0 Wherever you are on earth today it is the equinox and wherever you are on earth today the sunrises at approximately the same time for everyone on the planet as well as the sunset. Northern and Southern hemispheres experience the same amount of darkness and light.\u00a0 Wow! What if we could somehow take a pause (and when I say <em>we<\/em> I mean <em>all<\/em> the people of our little planet, earth) and realize we are living this together.\u00a0 The Equinox is not about politics or religion or tribes or class, it is a physical fact for all beings on this planet, we <strong>all<\/strong> have these two days in common!\u00a0 It\u2019s a start, pass it on, maybe we can get the word out; <em><strong>we\u2019re all in this together<\/strong><\/em>. Wow, September just got a whole lot more interesting.<\/p>\n<p><em>This painting an others from the blog are for sale, follow the link to see <a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/mandala.html\">http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/mandala.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Autumnal Equinox.\u00a0 I did a little research into what that means, so here it is: an equinox happens each year at two specific moments in time (rather than two whole days), when there is a location on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88],"tags":[162,163,674,680],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-autumn","tag-autumnal-equinox","tag-september","tag-shadows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy Equinox! 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