Vernal Equinox and an Existential Celebration

The Anti-Crisis New Year

Maya Bechi, M.Ed
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6 min readMar 19, 2024

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Photo by: May Bechi, 2024

I’ve been noticing the alluring and demure appeal of nature 🍃 more and more in my life these days. Did you ever in your life stop to listen to a non-existent breeze, or learn to identify a local tree by it’s leaves? The Vernal Equinox, or first day of Spring, has become something of a portal for me that has kept me from languishing over the past 3 years. I had been navigating a terribly long encounter with an existential crisis. The largest part of the crisis due to a shift in my religious faith, and a choice to end a 20 year church membership. Surprisingly to me, each March equinox brings a time of balance, my de-hibernation ritual, and a Persian inspired New Year. If you’re reading this, I want to open my often locked life gate and share from a deeper part of my world. These past 3 years I’ve clawed out of the rubble of crisis and am now submerged inside a deep sea of celebration.

Perhaps it’s the path you’re on too.

Photo by: Maya Bechi, 2024

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Maya Bechi, M.Ed
Maya Bechi, M.Ed

Written by Maya Bechi, M.Ed

Perfectly imperfect. A myriad of musings, research and writings. Educator, Indie Publisher, Supportive Human. Look me up. www.robsonandpuritan.com

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