Groundhog Day Euphoria

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want to begin a new cycle of life and in our wintry gestation we eagerly anticipate our birth into that cycle.</p><p id="292d">Anyway, that’s why I love Groundhog Day. It marks the midway point between death and birth. It is when movement in the womb accelerates heralding forthcoming contractions. While temperatures increase and light expands our impending birth generates joy within our being. We have a deep memory bank full of countless childhood joys and we want to experience them again.</p><p id="9c0e">As in the movie, <b><i>Groundhog Day</i></b> (a film listed in my Top 100 Favorite Movies), every day seems like a repetition of the previous day. But each new day also brings the opportunity to do it all differently. Likewise, each year in our lives can seem like a repetition of previous years but each new year also presents opportunities to do it all differently.</p><p id="21aa">Thereby, birth — or springtime — is the gateway into a world of new opportunities. We get to do it all again and thanks to our experiences in previous years we can make different choices. We can grow in different ways and we can live in different ways. And we can love in ways we failed to do in previous years. Each springtime provides the chance to push the envelope of love ever further.</p><p id="9661">As the increasing sunshine nourishes us we enter a period of growth that provides the opportunity to flourish like never before.</p><p id="5919">One of the nice things about winter (death) is that it never lasts forever. It always turns into its opposite; birth. Winter is so cold and dark and sad that we start to forget this while immer

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sed in it. But then along comes Groundhog Day and we are reminded of what lies ahead. The seed within us begins to awaken.</p><p id="05b8">It’s always been one of my favorite holidays.</p><p id="7a3e"><i>Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.</i> <a href="https://readmedium.com/white-feather-archive-index-c95167f7dbaf"><b>Complete White Feather Archive Index</b></a></p><p id="6f31"><i>Speaking of weather…</i></p><div id="a3a6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-weather-complainer-50288b86ccb"> <div> <div> <h2>The Weather Complainer</h2> <div><h3>Do you know someone like this?</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*0vX7cmaCR-VzH7WsaDCoTw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="99b9"><i>And speaking of my favorite holidays that occur in February…</i></p><div id="5151" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/one-of-my-favorite-holidays-6605c68ccffd"> <div> <div> <h2>One of My Favorite Holidays</h2> <div><h3>It occurs in February</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*g4gDdMZ5HxXR3oj8dS6Q0w.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

How do you celebrate this holiday?

Novelist Tom Robbins called autumn the springtime of death. If we consider winter to be death then in autumn we are realizing that death is approaching but we also realize that we still have a little time left before it arrives. Like many humans in their final years realize, the vibrancy of life must be experienced to the fullest before death shows up. That is why autumn is a time of celebration; of luxuriating in the warmth and joy and fruits of our labor before everything goes cold and dark.

One of the biggest human misconceptions is that life and death are opposites. They are not. The opposite of death is birth, not life. Life is ongoing and has no opposite. It’s a oneness principle.

Death is followed by birth which is followed by death which is followed by birth. That is the nature of our particular holographic reality. Like yin and yang, death and birth are perpetually chasing each other in a circular dance called life.

So while winter is a period of death it is naturally followed by a period of birth. It is called springtime and it is what we all look forward to while transitioning through death.

We all want to begin a new cycle of life and in our wintry gestation we eagerly anticipate our birth into that cycle.

Anyway, that’s why I love Groundhog Day. It marks the midway point between death and birth. It is when movement in the womb accelerates heralding forthcoming contractions. While temperatures increase and light expands our impending birth generates joy within our being. We have a deep memory bank full of countless childhood joys and we want to experience them again.

As in the movie, Groundhog Day (a film listed in my Top 100 Favorite Movies), every day seems like a repetition of the previous day. But each new day also brings the opportunity to do it all differently. Likewise, each year in our lives can seem like a repetition of previous years but each new year also presents opportunities to do it all differently.

Thereby, birth — or springtime — is the gateway into a world of new opportunities. We get to do it all again and thanks to our experiences in previous years we can make different choices. We can grow in different ways and we can live in different ways. And we can love in ways we failed to do in previous years. Each springtime provides the chance to push the envelope of love ever further.

As the increasing sunshine nourishes us we enter a period of growth that provides the opportunity to flourish like never before.

One of the nice things about winter (death) is that it never lasts forever. It always turns into its opposite; birth. Winter is so cold and dark and sad that we start to forget this while immersed in it. But then along comes Groundhog Day and we are reminded of what lies ahead. The seed within us begins to awaken.

It’s always been one of my favorite holidays.

Speaking of weather…

And speaking of my favorite holidays that occur in February…