The Epiphany is the completion of Christmas.
It is love revealing itself to all humankind.
Love [in Italian: amore] means "with no customs", from [the Latin] a-mores; that is, it is experienced by each one of us in our own individual way.
Unfortunately, we are accustomed to emphasizing such aspects of the Gospel as the sacrifice of Christ, suffering, death.
The aspect of resurrection, however, gets put aside a bit.
Yet when Jesus says, "You shall do greater things than I have done," He means that He is not the point of arrival, but the point of departure, the opportunity which invites humanity to undertake an internal journey towards the discovery of one's deepest self, towards the discovery of one's own divine root.
Epiphany means, precisely, revelation - the manifestation of divine reality in the material realm.
God is revealed to humankind through the bodily existence of the Child.
God's Word is made flesh so as to tell humanity that it is made in God's image.
The gifts of the Magi symbolize the preciousness of this revelation, the treasure displayed, the richness of the conversion, which is the recovery of the deep values of life.
The royalty of the Magi is our own royalty, which we acquire when we embrace Christ wholly within ourselves, when we appropriate the human-divine reality.
Epiphany therefore is revelation and at the same time a letting-go of old, accepted ways of reviving awareness, choosing to take a new path, which will be different for each of us, but which draws us towards the same goal: freedom and love.
Unburied treasures which we can divide up and share with others, so that we ourselves may be the comet, the point of reference for our neighbor, the light which hovers there, there where a person - any person who wants to - may be born to a new reality.