As fairy tales well know, it takes great courage, virtue and compassion to strike a balance between the forces of good and evil, and there is no time like Equinox for finding whats' needed to bring good and evil, light and dark, Sun and Moon, betrothed and bereft into harmony.
The word Equinox shares the same root as
the word equal and means, literally equal night. Equinox
is the time when the Sun crosses the plane of the Earth's Equator, which causes
day and night to be of about equal length the world over. The deep mystery
rooted in Equinox is revealed by considering how long it takes the Sun to return
to this point each year. As the Ancient Egyptians understood it, the Sun
arrives at the point of Equinox 1/72nd of a degree earlier each year, which
seemingly miniscule amount sets the whole world into a state of the most
remarkable change from one year to the next.
Finding the point of Equinox can be easy
through math, but it can be challenging if you're the intended princess of an
enchanted prince who is banished to the Palace East of the Sun and West of the
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