SEPTEMBER 21 Spring Equinox <This is March 20 in the Western Hemisphere> Australia seems to stand alone globally in its designations of the four seasons. All other traditions have, for example, Spring beginning on the vernal equinox, in Australia this is September 21. So why does our spring nominally begin on September 1? This shift […]
FESTIVALS: September
Celebrations and Festivals: Father’s Day
FIRST SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER Father’s Day <This is June 18th in the United States> It would appear that a swarm of demons would be released from Domestic Hell if same-sex marriage became legal in Australia; among these being the horror of pedophiles eventually being permitted to marry children – or even animals! This was among […]
Celebrations and Festivals: Autumn Equinox
MARCH 21 Autumn Equinox Harvest Festival <This is September 23 in the Western Hemisphere> When I was a young man, my only associations of Homebush were of riding in a train to work, and passing lines of filthy, barred rail cars stuffed with sheep; the forlorn survivors trampling the dead. The smell was equally offensive, […]