Monday, September 23, 2019

Happy Autumnal Equinox...



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Today marks the Autumnal Equinox for 2019.

On the autumnal equinox, the day and night are each about 12 hours long (with the actual time of equal day and night, in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring a few days after the autumnal equinox).

This is the result of the Sun crossing the celestial equator going southward, as it rises exactly due east and sets exactly due west.
(https://www.almanac.com/con…/first-day-fall-autumnal-equinox)

In many Northern Hemisphere cultures, this marked the start of the great harvest ahead of Winter, which culminated in late August and what the Celts called Samhain (pronounced sow-wein), which centered around remembering and honoring the dead.
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