The Pleiades star cluster, from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Image courtesy of NASA, U.S.
“And then the sailors say, ‘The halcyon days are here. Let us be glad. There is nothing to fear’.”
~ Emma Firth, Stories of Old Greece, 1895
My friend Molly Hall mentioned Halcyon Days in a message this morning, and off I went, following that golden thread into the roots and magic of Halcyon.
Turns out, it’s very timely — as in, associated with now — and perhaps it’s very much what many of us yearn deeply for.
Halcyon refers to those idyllic, happy, joyful, golden days of old or yore or our own recollection — the days we fondly remember; those favorite story or movie moments that warm our hearts every time.
They might also be the days and times we might yearn deeply for, if we feel an acute absence of those…
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