Beyond Beauty
Beyond beauty and awe, there's an emotion that's deeper. A harmonic, resonating identification of something larger that we belong to. Aurora are an emotional gateway - a visible, sometimes audible manifestation of mystical energy that could maybe, just maybe lead us to this home. Indeed, Norse mythology holds that the northern lights are the Valkyries leading fallen warriors home to Valhalla...In Iceland, I watched rural kids play and dance at midnight under a prominent auroral plume. Dancing and running to mimic the lights, pausing to take in new formations and then start the cycle again. They were home already. ..Like moonlight, magnetism and electricity, the northern lights are the subject of science and legend. If you have the chance, go bask in the atmospheric energy that reveals the secrets of the frozen far north. It will engage your sense of awe like few other phenomena.