This newsletter appears on Good Friday, and is about rebirth. The Resurrection was a rebirth out of time, but the imagination also recognizes the mythical pattern of rebirth within time, the most obvious example of which is the cyclical rebirth of nature. Easter has borrowed the imagery of spring fertility festivals. Christ’s counterpart is the Easter Bunny, the rabbit with a basket of eggs, signifying fertility. The daffodils have opened like little suns, for spring rebirth is cosmological as well as biological: March 20 was the vernal equinox, when day and night are balanced opposites, inaugurating the constellation Aries, the fiery ram, the first sign of the zodiac and therefore, it was held, the sign in which the world was created. My birthday is March 31. Despite its being one precarious day from April Fool’s, I have always been glad that my birthday is in the spring, time of rebirth, of new beginnings.
April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023
This newsletter appears on Good Friday, and is about rebirth. The Resurrection was a rebirth out of time, but the imagination also recognizes the mythical pattern of rebirth within time, the most obvious example of which is the cyclical rebirth of nature. Easter has borrowed the imagery of spring fertility festivals. Christ’s counterpart is the Easter Bunny, the rabbit with a basket of eggs, signifying fertility. The daffodils have opened like little suns, for spring rebirth is cosmological as well as biological: March 20 was the vernal equinox, when day and night are balanced opposites, inaugurating the constellation Aries, the fiery ram, the first sign of the zodiac and therefore, it was held, the sign in which the world was created. My birthday is March 31. Despite its being one precarious day from April Fool’s, I have always been glad that my birthday is in the spring, time of rebirth, of new beginnings.