Midnight

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For few of us midnight is the actual middle of the night. For most of us it is somewhere at the end of the evening or the beginning of the night. It is the end of the day and as such the start of the next day. In this manner it is, in a sense, the bridge between the evening of today and the morning of tomorrow...

Midnight blue is the darkest blue you can think of, and yet, the darkest time of night is said to be right before dawn. Unless you live quite close to the polar circle, dawn is quite a few hours away from midnight...

Midnight is when everything is quiet.
However it is a time that is full of life and activity for the creatures of the night ~ animal or human...

The only logical way to look at midnight, is that it is diametrical opposite to midday ~ a time of day for which much of the above is true also; it is hardly the middle of the day, although bright ~ the brightest light is often a couple of hours later, and while daytime is a time of activity, midday somehow has a quiet, a stillness about it...

To really see where the terms come from, we need to look at the cycle of day and night.
This 24 hour time-span is one of the shortest cycles in nature; the time it takes for the earth to make a full, 360 degree turn on its axis.
Midday then is the point when the sun is at its highest point above the horizon; midnight the time when the sun is at its lowest point beneath the horizon.
And looking at the significance of these points in the cycle, it appears that at midday we can see most clearly as the reality, the true nature of things is least obscured by their shadows, showing the shapes and energies as they truly are.
At midnight, when the sun is exactly at the other side of the earth, we can see an entirely different reality. Or perhaps we see different aspects of the same reality, not with our eyes but with our other feelings, even with our intuition. It makes midnight the time for feelings. For those often undefined bits and pieces of information that we feel good about, or not. It is when our ‘gut-feel’ is very clear...

MIdnight, when the energy of the sun is no part of our experience, is the time when our (inner) senses can be relied on. That special smell, a rustle as a soft breeze plays with the leaves of a tree, the sonar calls of bats ~ just outside of our range of hearing; it is all part of that other reality that is so easy to forget about in the light of day...
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