This month we honor balance as the Vernal Equinox marks the first full day of spring on March 19th. It is a day that holds the same amount of daylight as it does darkness.

Here are some things to enjoy about that day:

• The rays of the sun are perpendicular to our equator, the Earth’s tilt is neither away nor towards the sun
• The Southern Hemisphere is experiencing the Autumnal Equinox
• Equinox means equal, specifically 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night
• You can use your shadow on this date to tell time
• The days surrounding the equinox, when the sun is directly overhead, there won’t be a shadow at exactly noon
• Our ancestors really knew a thing or two about the sun, with the invention of the sun dial
• We’re gaining the most daylight in the year with an additional 2 minutes and 12 seconds a day
• The Vernal Equinox determines the date of Easter, it is celebrated the Sunday after the first full moon that occurs after the Vernal Equinox
• The next time the sun’s rays are directly over the equator, is on the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, which is the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, it falls on September 22nd

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

~ Walt Whitman