Spring Equinox March 19/20
We are hitting the midway point of this most transformative period, welcoming the Spring Equinox with the balance of light between night and day in its peak season. The ancients believed in the power of this perceived cosmic phenomena, creating rock formations for sacred rituals and celebrations to honor its arrival. The humans that walked the earth long before us relayed on the sky above them, mapping the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, the galaxies and everything else up there as their way to coexist, living harmoniously within the nature of existence.
They were incredibly advanced people despite what we have been taught to believe, using the natural resources around them as a way to gauge what was happening with Mother Earth in accordance with the cycles of Father Sky. The ancients did all this with their own form of accurate, effective technology that can’t be scientifically explained, challenging its belief with modern day man. Nonetheless, people remain using its remarkable advancement in modern day times to honor the seasons and celebrate the cycles of the sky that we call Equinoxes and Solstices.
As the Northern Hemisphere begins to feel the warmth of the sun lighting its way again, it is also the time of year to begin refreshing, renewing or reexamining what has become outdated in your life moving forward. If you watch closely, nature is fully beginning to reawaken by shaking off its long winter months in unison with the return of the light. This naturally occurring process is important to replicate into the human behavior of the mind/body/spirit connection of Spring energy.
During the long winter months things often become stagnant or stale during hibernation, no longer a benefit as the season changes with its natural flow of movement forward. If you pay attention outside, you will notice that these transitions don’t come easily. Just look at the trees as they are budding according to the rhythm of time and space regardless of the climate or conditions of the weather. The tree itself knows naturally and intuitively how to continue its progressive development, even when the conditions are challenging. It teaches us resilience and how to be in the process of transformation with patience, calmness, stillness and perseverance.
Spring is a time to clean out or freshen up all the spaces that we occupy (internally and externally) that are sacred. This practice has been recorded and written in sacred texts continuously throughout time because of its significance and importance in many cultures, religions and spiritual practices. This equinox marks the point of change for renewal, offering the incentive to its universal energies of warmth, light, growth, and abundance in its expansion of going forward in life.