Here in the northern hemisphere we are welcoming the beginning of astronomical spring, as the earth tilts towards the sun. After this day of balance, where the length of the day and night is approximately equal, we head into the season of lengthening days and warmer weather. Such a gift to those of us who often struggle in winter. For all the years that I’ve been marking these threshold dates of the seasons I’ve tended to focus on the equinoxes’ quality of balance, how things are held suspended between the two extreme poles of winter and summer. Something in that has always felt quite comforting to me; I am by nature a middle-way kind of person, finding the extremes of things difficult. It’s always a relief to be in this interstitial time, where I can feel the energy returning after the hibernation of winter, but I am not yet feeling