Larxene wrote:Thank you johannes, but I do not understand something. As someone who lives in a place where seasons don't really exist, I have no first-hand experience with the them.
So how do the seasons change? Is it like, today is winter, and suddenly tomorrow is spring? Because if that is the case, then the vernal equinox should lie in Pisces, not Aries, since Pisces contains both seasons, and the seasons change or "turn" in it.
The state of the longest, shortes and equal day you can determine exactly.
I really don't know if at all it is as proper as it seems to be, to allot the signs to the seasons or vice versa. Above all the beginnings and endings of the seasons cannot be determined as exactly as solstices and equinoxes, because they are a process and an average of temperature and apearances in nature more than a determined state.
But nevertheless here, in the middle of Europe, there is a clear difference between winter and spring. To say it simply, the winter is cold, the trees are without leaves, nature does not move, even the water of rivers and lakes is often frozen.
In spring there are blossoms in the trees and flowers spread in the grass and gardens. The Sun gains in power, and you can feel it on your skin, and even if sometimes there will be some cold again, it is only for a very short time, mostly during the nights. In spring the trees get all their leaves again and together with the bushes they are like walls again.
Between winter and spring, at the time of Pisces, the cold of the winter gets 'cracks' seen in the ice for example. You can feel more than see that the green in the trees is about to come out of the grey, and even some very special flowers, snowdrops and crocus for example, are ridicilous and bold enough even to break through the snow.
So Pisces has - being placed between winter and spring two forces: still that of the winter, and already some of spring. See Manilius.
