nature's zodiac

This week I spiraled into a universe of new knowledge, beginning with a passing comment my dad made about evening light being good for the body. That tiny thread led me through podcasts, articles, and insights that have completely shifted my orientation toward health and wellness. Perfect for these late Virgo days, when detail and discovery sharpen our sight.

What I’ve come to realize is this: we’ve lost an intuitive grasp on how the Sun sustains us. We worry about sunscreen, SPF levels, and reapplications, but rarely pause to consider the waves of light themselves. Morning and evening light are not just gentle bookends to the day; they’re essential frequencies our bodies are wired to receive.

Quantum biology is uncovering why. Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon turned quantum health educator, has been following the pioneering work of Fritz-Albert Popp and Roland van Wijk, who revealed that living systems emit and store light in the form of biophotons. In his words, our biology runs on light as much as on food. On a recent podcast with Carrie Bennet, this became vividly clear to me: mitochondria, those so-called “powerhouses of the cell,” are not just little combustion engines, they are quantum light receivers. Long-wave red and infrared light penetrates the body, meeting mitochondria and helping them generate ATP and intra-cellular water, the energy currency of life.

Think of it like bass notes from a car stereo vibrating through your chest. In the same way, red light waves sink into our tissues, delighting mitochondria, helping keep neurons myelinated, reducing inflammation, and repairing tissues. Red foods- tomatoes, raspberries, watermelon- are versions of this same red frequency embodied. As Dameon Keller notes, frequencies of light and musical notes are one continuum: slow light down, you have color; speed sound up, you have light. All is vibration, all is resonance.

Kruse also emphasizes that red blood cells, our circulators of oxygen, are designed as perfect toroidal shapes, pulling in and looping energy just like my own torus model of the zodiac, where Taurus (the grounded center) and Sagittarius (the radiant periphery) meet in one circulating field of light. Our eyes, too, are toroidal: living portals that draw light into the brain, where circadian rhythms, hormones, and mood are tuned.

And this isn’t abstract. As a homeschooling mom, these insights have turned into lived science on the deck at dusk, playing tag in the morning, eating berries from the farmer’s market in the warm glow of sunset. The dog gazes knowingly into the pink horizon, crickets and birds join in chorus, and I feel my mitochondria singing along. Science refreshes itself here, at the edge of light and delight.

William Blake once said, “Energy is eternal delight.” The more I look, the more I see that wellness ties directly to delight itself. Not in fluorescent gyms or endless supplements, but in the simple renewal of morning and evening light.

And now, as the second Virgo New Moon rises with a partial eclipse on Sunday the 21st (visible in parts of South America and West Africa), we are invited to take this knowledge even deeper, into our bodies, our rhythms, and our daily practices of delight

So here is the invitation: step outside, even for a few minutes, to entrain with the natural frequencies of dawn and dusk. Let the light meet your eyes, your cells, your spirit. Let it become family time, playful time, time of renewal. The science of the future, quantum biology tells us, is nothing more radical than this ancient truth: light sustains life, and life delights in light.