Painting Revelation Blog

slice of moon on cold, windy night

Heavy rains earlier this week flooded the wetlands below our house and covered the earthen dam bridge that crosses the pond. Then the temperature dropped thirty degrees and covered the water with ice. This morning when we went out for our walk on the ridge, the top of the old sand dune, we heard a loud crack and then another and another in the wetlands. I thought it was a tree falling in stages, bracing for a moment on other trees on its way to horizontal. But when we heard more cracks from a wide area John said it was deer. We stood still in the bitter cold air and stared, hoping to catch sight of a tawny back between the bare but dense shrubs and brambles below us. We never saw them but the pattern of the scattering cracks and thwacks convinced us they were near.

Today is the last day of February, the end of meteorlogical winter, a term I learned today from the newspaper. It’s a method of measuring the season of winter used by meteorologists based on “sensible weather patterns” for record keeping purposes. So in our part of the globe, winter is December, January, and February. This makes sense now that we’ve left the Age of Pisces and entered the Age of Aquarius.  The “Age” is determined by which constellation is in the sky opposite the sun on the spring equinox. The twelve Ages make up the Platonic Year which is approximately 25,765 years. So that means each age lasts about 2,147 years. As one age melds into another, the seasons associated with the months gradually changes. Our winter begins well before December 21st, but 2000 years ago that probably wasn’t true.

There are bigger patterns at work in our universe than we can see from our small spot on the planet. May we rejoice in the mystery and suspend judgment when not everything lines up the way we think it should. Perhaps there are more than deer hiding close by. May we listen for the signs of life around us.

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