The four season's is the topic of my pod cast for today's gathering. Human's, animals and plants are influenced by the changes of the 4 season's, and we enter the week of the summer solstice, the longest days of the year. 6 months earlier we experienced the sinter solstice, with the shortest periods of daylight in the year. March and September bring us the two equinox's, or when the day and night are most equal. Life retreats during the winter, and for a long time, there were 60 days that did not have a calendar name, and the year began in March, the god Mars, reflecting the Roman dominance of our current calendar's. Human's and animals often store for the winter, or store up body fat. The spring equinox is the season of birth, germination, and in the spiritual calendar, initiation.
We plant in the spring, growing both summer and winter produce, once all called fruit's. From beets, to lemon's, to nut's seeds and squash. All were either summer or winter fruits. Squash, nuts, seeds, cereals, grains, pulses, legumes were all winter fruits, and could be stored until fresh summer fruits were past. That is your traditional four seasons dietary paradigm. Indigenous tribes in the America's would toss out all winter foods when spring foods and bounty occurred, storing again for the next winter.
Summer solstice marks the beginning of growth and maturation. A time to strengthen the flesh, to consume the nutrient rich fresh foods of the summer and autumn harvest's. In the spiritual calendar, this is the time where we establish our life practices and hopefully reflect deep inside into the mysteries and wisdom that dwell's within.
After a full life of growth and maturation, we come to the Autumn equinox. This is when fields are harvested, and our cellars and pantry's are filled for the coming winter. To the mystic's , Hermes,, Pythagoras and Socrates, the Chaldean's freemasons, Rosacrutians and illuminate, this is the time of initiation. Jesus is born and accepts his mantle during spring, he travels and grows in the summer, and he fulfills his mission at the fall equinox.
Four season, that go round and round in the circle of life.
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