Talk:The Four Maidens/@comment-26882656-20160124162816/@comment-5290299-20160203042046

Exactly! We could bring up the argument that Summer is the start of the year. But fact is, the symbolism behind each season.

Winter begins with the death and sleep of nature. Winter who gives us a sense of serentiy and tranquiliy, contemplation while we await the time to awake.

Upon spring we have a sense of renewal, a time period to brgin the revival of life, in a sense waking up.

Summer gives us a sense of vitality. No hiding, no secrets, no darkness. Summer is a time of light, joviality, expression and wholehearted action. We are at high noon and ready to throw down with the rest of them.

And then comes Fall, the harvest, when the hardwork of all three seasons come to pass. The supper/dinner time where we are grateful for the fun day we had and everything we got.

And thus we return to winter. a time of sleep, a time of rest for the new day.

Our equinoxs are divided with winter being the end and start of the season here in the norht, and south has summer as the beginning and end.

Personally i will always see Winter as first. Not because of where I live. But because of the fact I am a hyped up myth nerd who believes the death and rebirth of things is always there in the beginning and in the end.

Though if we were to do this as a life transition, then yeah Winter should be nice, but for this story, it was best to have Winter be first because of what she represents, and to end with fall because it was then the Wizard realized he had a lot to be grateful for.