EPHEMERIS FOR THE FOURTH WEEK OF EARLY SPRING The Sixteenth Week Of The Natural Year

Slayer of winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer night! From “March” by William Morris

Simple attention to the details of nature, as always, helped me keep in sight both my center and my life’s destination and purpose, which was to live skillfully and mindfully each step of the journey. Stephen Altschuler LUNAR PHASE

The spring flowers, the autumn moon; Summer breezes, winter snow. If useless things do not clutter your mind, You have the best days of your life. Mumon Ekai, 13th Century Zen monk/trans. Katsuki Sekida EPHEMERIS FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF LATE WINTER The Eleventh Week Of The Natural Year

The balance is weighted to April Today. These are Ecliptic Winds From the Tilt of the Earth. I can feel them here, And watch them on my Scales, And on the Needle of my Gnomon, riding the Solar Storm. Daybook, January 28 EPHEMERIS FOR THE TRANSITION TO LATE WINTER

I want everything that I observe to be connected to something else, to hold some kind of significance. I want to know how things will turn out, what will happen. But maybe it’s easier than that; meaning is simple: what you see is what you get. Daybook, December 19, 2009 EPHEMERIS FOR THE THIRD WEEK OF DEEP WINTER

Every time the wind blows through the jeweled trees, a miracle is produced. The Sukhavati Sutra EPHEMERIS FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF DEEP WINTER THE SEVENTH WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR -WHEN OWLS MATE