Roads once closed from snow are now open with a brand new world of growth awaiting you. Historically, spring equinox is a great time to travel and explore. Go outside: Start hiking, or exploring new parts of your city you haven't seen before. Start a project with the balance, clear head and an open plane of possibilities.
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Cleaning on this day can boost your energy, open the windows and play music while the dust and stagnation of winter months is wiped clean.Ĭreate new goals or projects: Spring equinox is a time of balance and beginnings. Spring cleaning: We all know this one, some look forward to the yearly cleanse while others dread this time. This is a great time to gather loved ones, set new intentions for the season and release them to the flames. Go outside and have a fire (safety of course!). Have a bonfire: All over the world, cultures integrate fire into their celebrations. Awaken your body and mind to the new day with the sun. Wake at Sunrise: Rise early from bed to glimpse the sun peaking over the horizon. Plant food and flowers to brighten up the land! Plant Seeds or Garden: gardening isn't only a seasonal tradition, it's also a ritual to honor this astrological event! Sing songs to your plants while you give them to the earth. Place it in the sunshine to warm your hearts and minds after the dark months of winter. Adorn your space with bright colors, plants, and herbs that promote growth and healing. Traveling isn't required to celebrate this wonderful time of year! There are many traditions we can all do at home with our loved ones or alone to celebrate Spring Equinox.īlowing Bubbles © Robin Urton 2016 Simple Spring Equinox Rituals:Ĭreate an altar: Make a space dedicated to our new intentions for the season.
The wisdom medicine of the wild geese who fly over us morning and evening, their honking almost singing, offer us the gift of synergy. We call on our kindreds, human and non-human. What finds shape and strength now will determine the rest of the year. Ecstatic of heart again we are like haiku writers trying to contain elation in just three lines.Įven though the winds of change and uncertainty gust, when Oestra’s egg of pure potential cracks open we pluck our intentions from our vision boards, woad our brows and stride courageously out. Volumes of light flood the air revealing grime on windows, cobwebs along walls.Īs we perform our rituals of spring cleaning, throw off sluggishness and tonify our livers, we can hear birdsong from every room in the house. Whorls, eggs, columns and frogs, motifs of ancient renewal populate our dreams and inscapes. The trees hard ‘resting ’buds are pliant again. The Kissing Mountains © Bernice Davidson 2018ĭay and night, dark and light are equal in length. Seasonal celebrations of most cultures cluster around these same natural turning points. We commemorate these natural turning points in the Earth’s cycle. Four cross-quarter days roughly mark the midpoints in between solstices and equinoxes. On equinoxes, days and nights are equal in all parts of the world. Solstices are the extreme points as Earth’s axis tilts toward or away from the sun-when days and nights are longest or shortest. The seasonal cycle of the year is created by Earth’s annual orbit around the sun.
Spring equinox starts the zodiac wheel with Aries! Bringing in the season of growth, new life and sunshine.
Goddess Festivals: Eostare, Ostara, Oestre (German), Astarte (Semite), Persephone (Greek), Flora (Roman). March 20 Equinox/Spring: rebirth, fertility, eggs-Passover (Jewish), Easter (Christian).
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