vernal equinox

Happy vernal equinox to you dear readers,Lately, it seems we clatter into each new season dragging a dented wagon of jumbled, conflicting feelings.

Maybe the vernal equinox is what helps get us back on track every spring.

The line drawn from the sun toward the right of the figure shows the direction to the vernal equinox.

How many days will be required for it to move completely around the ecliptic from vernal equinox back to vernal equinox again?

It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

At the vernal equinox, the ancients celebrated the bridal of the sun and the earth.

The festival of the vernal equinox would then be celebrated on the first of April.