{"id":36058,"date":"2018-03-10T18:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T18:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36058"},"modified":"2018-03-12T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T01:33:56","slug":"vernal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/03\/vernal-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernal equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light and thrust and energy<br \/>\nVigour life and intensity<br \/>\nVim and zip<br \/>\nAnd dynamics there<br \/>\nAnd an undertaking and a need<br \/>\nTo share<br \/>\nA month before the ice and the snow<br \/>\nWorked to freeze<br \/>\nThe sod below<br \/>\nBut now the vernal equinox<br \/>\nWith its noble warmth<br \/>\nThat just unlocks<br \/>\nMovement and alacrity<br \/>\nAnd the sweetest snowdrops<br \/>\nYou will ever see<\/p>\n<p>Peeping from the hard-pan floor<br \/>\nAlong with the crocuses we see<br \/>\nTheir spark and spirit and whatsmore<br \/>\nDaffodils Pure gold for me<br \/>\nDancing sideways in the rain<br \/>\nTheir enterprise and industry<br \/>\nSuch golden boughs of joyfulness<br \/>\nBrimstone sulphur Dancing free<\/p>\n<p>A pigeon with his collar white<br \/>\nThe raven clad in ebony<br \/>\nAn intelligent fellow<br \/>\nUpon the green<br \/>\nA time when worms arrive to be<br \/>\nConforming to their actual need<br \/>\nFor light and warmth just to succeed<\/p>\n<p>The alder by the eighteenth day<br \/>\nIndicative of why<br \/>\nOur need to build our bridges<br \/>\nWhere personal conflicts lie<br \/>\nThe alder offers protection<br \/>\nA vernal metaphor<br \/>\nWe need the strength and character<br \/>\nIts what this wood  is for<\/p>\n<p>With added strength to pull us through<br \/>\nTo the willow which will be<br \/>\nTaking its place on the fifteenth day of April<br \/>\nActually<br \/>\nWithin this auric equinox<br \/>\nsuch positivity<br \/>\nWe all need light and thats inspite<br \/>\nOf the frost we still may see<\/p>\n<p>We are gathered here at the Rollright stones<br \/>\nOur thoughts bright as the sky<br \/>\nBeing with like minds today<br \/>\nThe only reason why<br \/>\nEach of us makes this trip here<br \/>\nOur consciousness  on fire<br \/>\nTo share another equinox together<br \/>\nWho can tire<\/p>\n<p>From the spirit and the emotion<br \/>\nOf meeting friends who we<br \/>\nLove to join our circle<br \/>\nWhere together we can be<br \/>\nTrue friends sharing magic<br \/>\nSharing good thoughts and today<br \/>\nThe inner child in all of us<br \/>\nCan you feel it wants to play<\/p>\n<p>The moles have been a working<br \/>\nSifting through the soil<br \/>\nBlindly going down their tunnels<br \/>\nFor them they love to toil<br \/>\nbuilding mounds of crafted earth<br \/>\nHopeful they might be<br \/>\nDangerous for disabled bards<br \/>\nWhose tread resembles me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light and thrust and energy Vigour life and intensity Vim and zip And dynamics there And an undertaking and a need To share A month before the ice and the snow Worked to freeze The sod below But now the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/03\/vernal-equinox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36060,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36058\/revisions\/36060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}