Where's the damn sun?

The hell? I woke a little before six (yes—late for me) and it was still mostly dark out. Sure sure, there was a spot of light at the horizon but the whole sky was not lit up!

What? The Autumn Equinox is coming?

This Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 4:22 AM, to be all precise and shit, is the zero hour.

What is the Autumn Equinox? The end of summer. Dammit. Specifically it’s when:

…the tilt of the Earth’s axis and Earth’s orbit around the sun combine in such a way that the axis is inclined neither away from nor toward the sun.

Earth’s two hemispheres are receiving the sun’s rays about equally around equinox-time. Night and day are approximately equal in length.

The name equinox comes from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).

This page, Equinox: equal day and night, but not quite, will tell you all you’ve ever wanted to know about why. despite the name, day and night aren’t precisely equal on Wednesday.

Demeter mourning Persephone—Evelyn De Morgan

This is also the day that Persephone returns to her man down under (and I don’t mean Australia).

The very first time Persephone went south, Demeter, her possibly overbearing mother (goddess of corn, grain, and harvest), went all Melancholy Baby time dialed up to eleventybillion. Hells, her response was to ixnay the earth’s ability to grow food for us pathetic mortals. She was pissed!

Now, Hades gets a bad rap—he’s really not such a bad dude.

As the god of death and the underworld, Hades suffers a bit from a bad image. In pop culture, he’s often treated like the Greek version of the Christian devil, but that’s a bit of a stretch. To start, Hades never chose the underworld as his domain. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, drew straws to see who would be lord of what realm. Zeus drew the heavens and the upper world, Poseidon drew the seas, and Hades drew the underworld

Dude drew the short straw! He’s NOT the devil, he’s just Hell’s lonely landlord. Poor guy.

Yeah, sure, it was a total dick move to trick Persephone into eating the pomegranate BUT, ya know, it could be that our dear Persephone WANTED time away from her mom but was too afraid to tell her. Hades was only trying to help.

Hells bells, Persephone-baby only has to spend four months each year down south. Essentially, she's snowbirding it. Can ya blame her?

Also too—he’s the only Greek god who was faithful to his wife! The ONLY one. That's gotta score him some points—right!?

So...ummmm...happy almost autumn!