Welcome Spring! It’s the Vernal Equinox–the Sun is exactly halfway between Winter and Summer Solstice, and it’s the beginning of a new astrological year. I did a ritual for the exact local time of the Equinox node, which was 1:20pm here in Pepperell. I did my Tarot reading for the coming octave before I went to bed, and it was a very good reading–“good” not only in the sense of interesting and fairly positive cards, but also in how cohesive and clear the reading was. At Imbolg I got The World as an Outcome card. For this octave, the Outcome card was The Fool. There’s a pair to ponder!
Tonight, I’m going to go see The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the Pepperell library for free. They may have space left if you’re in this area and would like to see New Moon! You need to preregister but you can do that online. I haven’t seen New Moon yet, and I haven’t heard or read a lot about the movie (I read the book), so I’ll be getting a fresh experience of it.
It’s a nice day, 73 degrees but hazy. It’s supposed to rain on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, fooey. But I heard the spring peepers last night for the very first time–I think the water was too high before that. morvenwestfield, who is southeast of my location, reported them on Thursday night but I listened carefully and couldn’t detect them. (Strangely enough, for frogs, I’ve noticed in other years that spring floods delayed the peepers.) They’re still twelve days earlier than last year. I checked the date book and I didn’t hear the peepers last year until March 31! It was cold last spring.
The Nashua River is finally dropping below flood stage today. Rte 119 re-opened yesterday so the traffic is back to normal. They were afraid it might be closed for an extended period but evidently Mass. DOT cleared off the road surface and found no damage, just debris. The local weekly has photos and news coverage. One somewhat scary result of the flooding that I’d been oblivious to: EMTs in Townsend couldn’t get to the closest hospital, Nashoba in Ayer, because every primary road (119, 2A, and 225) between Townsend and Ayer was closed! I hadn’t realized that. Townsend EMTs had to take patients down to Leominster Hospital for a couple of days, which is a longer trip. That’s how pervasive the flooding was around here!
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