The Spring Equinox (referred to in several European countries as some version of ‘Ostara’) is midway between Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice and a day of equal dark and light - the day and night are the same length. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this is a time of blossoming, of unfurling, of tending the soil and placing new seeds. (The Southern Hemisphere celebrates the Fall Equinox and the equal light and dark on the way to endings and the shorter days of winter).
We’re also beginning the astrological new year as the sun moves from Pisces into Aries and begins its next cycle through the zodiac. And we’re entering eclipse season which symbolically can be seen as a time to let the shadows show us new perspectives on the natural order of things.
It’s a potent time of fiery energies and, possibly, deep wounds and griefs. So can we remember that the dark soil is fruitful for growth and all new life springs forth from what has decayed? That the quickening which began in February may now be in labor contractions and that we have to surrender the outcomes and allow ourselves to be changed to fully live the mystery of rebirth and initiatory portals. This is as much a time of unbecoming as it is a time to celebrate new life.
Gather with me around this virtual fire and you’ll hear me flesh these ideas out more (and give you an embodied breath practice to explore your relationship to these times); as well as offer some ways you can celebrate, honor, or otherwise align yourself with the season.
And I'd love to keep hearing from you: How are you celebrating this brief moment of equilibrium on our way to longer days? How are you noticing or honoring the endings necessary for beginnings and tending the soil in which you’re entrusting your new seeds?
May we find the rest and the down cycles as we stretch toward the light. May the soils we tend nurture the seeds of compassion, connection, and freedom in ourselves, our communities, and the wider world. May we not forget that a life is just one piece of the greater churning of Aliveness and may we be in service to the holy tension of opposites, as Love.
** Photo of the Sheela Na Gig carving is by Graham Hobster.
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