The crystalline energies that blanket the world with snow in the dead of winter linger just long enough for the dreams they contain to etch into the matrix and introduce us to the patterns for the new year. By the time the spring equinox rolls around, all those possibilities have melted along with the snow, trickling into the soil and merging with it to form the clay that, from a biblical perspective, molds everything that lives and breathes in the third dimension.