Monday March 25, 2024
– Full Moon Phase – illumination, realization, fulfillment, shadow, relationships, experience
– Moon in VIRGO –
– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – March 2th – Set Eggs, Host a Party, Entertain Friends, Slaughter, Mow to Slow Growth, Cut Hair to Slow Growth
– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – March 14th – 26th – Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. First day is an excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other aboveground crops where climate permits. Last two days are favorable days for planting root crops.
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: – 01 ARIES: “a woman has risen out of the ocean, a seal is embracing her”
– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer
– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Seth, God of the North
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month – New Moon in Pisces SUN/MOON – 21 PISCES: a little white lamb, a child, and a Chinese servant (EARTH – 21 VIRGO: a girls’ basketball team )
SUN – 06 ARIES: a square brightly lighted on one side
EARTH – 06 LIBRA: a man watches his ideals taking concrete form before his inner vision
Happy Monday! May the festival of colors bring love an happiness to your life. Happy Holi!
2 Billion or so people in India and its diaspora celebrate the holiday of Holi. And god bless us all in the West as we know nothing about it. I only found out about it by accident about 15 years ago.
I was working with a web development team based in India. We held daily meetings at odd hours with updates on the project. One day (it happened to be Holi) the members of the Indian team did not get on the call. Our US based team members came into the room and mentioned that they would not be there because it was their national holiday and we would not see them for a few days.
I thought it was funny that they did not mention it before. And that is funny “strange” and not funny “haha.” We had worked with these people for months – every day and weekends. And they never bothered to mentioned it.
Nothing in the news about a National holiday affecting 2 billion people. Nothing. And it has remained that way ever since. So I like to call attention to it every year. It means something when that many people are thinking the same thing at the same time. And if nothing else, I would like to be a little part of it. And to remind everyone I know that this is a big world we live in and we really are just a small part of it.
I stole this article from the AP that describes the Holi holiday:
Holi, widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, is a joyful annual celebration at the advent of spring with cultural and religious significance.
Typically observed in March in India, Nepal, other South Asian countries and across the diaspora, the festival celebrates love and signifies a time of rebirth and rejuvenation — a time to embrace the positive and let go of negative energy.
Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun. The date of the festival varies depending on the lunar cycle. Typically, it falls in March, and will be celebrated this year on March 25.
For one of Holi’s most well-known traditions, celebrants clad in all white, come out to the street and throw colored powders at each other, leaving behind a kaleidoscope of pigments and joy. Festivities with music, dancing and food ensue.
In many parts of India, people light large bonfires the night before the festival to signify the destruction of evil and victory of good.
On the day of Holi, entire streets and towns are filled with people who throw colored powder in the air. Some fling balloons filled with colored water from rooftops and others use squirt guns. For one day, it’s all fair game. Cries of “Holi hai!” which means “It’s Holi!” can be heard on the streets. Holi has also been romanticized and popularized over the decades in Bollywood films.
The colors seen during Holi symbolize different things. Blue represents the color of Lord Krishna’s skin while green symbolizes spring and rebirth. Red symbolizes marriage or fertility while both red and yellow — commonly used in ritual and ceremony — symbolize auspiciousness.
An array of special foods are part of the celebration, with the most popular food during Holi being “gujia,” a flaky, deep-fried sweet pastry stuffed with milk curd, nuts and dried fruits. Holi parties also feature “thandai,” a cold drink prepared with a mix of almonds, fennel seeds, rose petals, poppy seeds, saffron, milk and sugar.
https://apnews.com/article/holi-hindu-festival-of-colors-india-d929d95ebb7ce98f23375b3eeb20753a?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter