Today, Groundhog Day, is a day buried deep in ancient European belief and lore, a day of reckoning, a day that marks the approximate midway point (otherwise known as Beltane or, from a Celtic standpoint, Imbolc) between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. It is, as those who live through cold and snowy winters, the point at which, maybe, just maybe, things are on the upswing, and that, going forward, the earth is closer to spring than winter.
And maybe we forget that we live in a reality whose meaning does not cconsist in our ability to tame and conquer it, but rather in our willingness to acknowledge its mysteries. We learn that, finite that we be, we will never fully outwit that which we did not make.
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