The Easter Bunny Brings Spring!

Today is the first day of Spring; the Vernal Equinox. The day when the sun crosses the first point of Aries; one of the two points on the Celestial Sphere where the Ecliptic and the Celestial Equator cross one another. The First Point of Aries, which is actually in Pisces, defines the zero-point for Right Ascension. When the Sun reaches the First Point of Aries, as it does once each year, an equinox occurs. In the northern hemisphere, this is the Vernal Equinox, before which the North Pole is tipped away from the Sun, giving shorter days. After the equinox, the North Pole is angled toward the Sun, starting to make days longer, and moving the northern hemisphere into spring and summer. Today the amount of light is exactly equal to the amount of darkness; 12 hours of each.

Spring sprung at 5:50am this morning. Its not just Spring on the calendar. I have bulbs poking their heads up out of the ground and there have been numerous sightings of warm weather birds returning. If you want to see the wonders of Orion, do so now or waive goodbye, because it’s on its way west. This Sunday is also Easter. This is one of the earliest Easters in memory. There won’t be another Easter this early for over 200 years. Easter is calculated to be the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. The full moon is this Saturday. Happy spring, happy vernal equinox, happy St. Patrick’s day ( belated ), happy Good Friday, happy Easter!!!!!!!!!!