equinox🌗 trees🌳 and beauty from the forest

There is a moment each year when the Earth pauses in perfect balance—light and dark held in equal measure. 

The Vernal Equinox marks not just the arrival of spring, but a threshold where we emerge from the dark into the light like triumphant children of Grimms’ forest folklore.

This isn’t something we grow out of, it’s something we must grow through.

We learn about this dynamic early on, though we don’t recognize it at the time. In children’s tales darkness, the forest, is never just a backdrop. It is a place we enter when something must change—a place of uncertainty, testing, and quiet work. 

We step into the woods not to get lost, but to encounter what cannot be seen in open light. The forest teaches us that time spent in the dark is not a detour, it is an essential part of life.

And there in its midst, standing seemingly silent are glorious trees, embodying something we’ve forgotten but poet Walt Whitman keenly observed: their “dumbly eloquence.” 

Without performance but rooted and enduring, trees remind us that there are places that hold us without asking anything in return. 

Science now reveals that forests are alive with communication amongst trees signaling through vast underground networks, sharing nutrients, warning one another of danger. It’s a living system of reciprocity, a community.

As we welcome spring, let’s celebrate our emergence and be inspired by the enduring presence of trees and what results from being rooted and cared for. 

We too are anchored in something deeper, empowered to emerge triumphant into the light. And that is beauty from the forest.