Happy New Year to you all….as the new year of the natural world celebrates at what we call the spring equinox. Whichever way you look at it, many of us have now entered either the new year, or Spring. The spring equinox is the time of year, in the earth’s annual cycle around the sun, where day and night are equal in length. We have emerged from the dominance of darkness during the winter days – or, as Rumi put it: ‘the hand of winter reveals the secrets of spring.’ [...]