How to Spring Equinox: A Mini Guide

Ideas for celebrating Spring's arrival

The wisps of spring are floating around us with puffs of white cotton candy blossoms emerging in a sea of sticks and evergreens. There is a whisper of sweet warm air curling around us, tangling tiny strands of hair in the beckoning wind. Our beloved spring arrives on March 20th this year, inspiring us to celebrate the equinox and her representation of rebirth and new beginnings. The day itself is a balance of daylight and darkness, equally balancing us between the barren vastness of winter and the harsh fire of summer.

Before Julius Caesar came along in 46 BC and reoriented the calendar from a lunar calendar into our 365-day year, the new year was in April, aligned with this fresh season - with the world’s reawakening. January is still slumbering in my mind and so the true new year remains ahead of us, matching the energy you likely feel with longer days and those delicious evenings when the stars don’t twinkle until past seven-thirty.

There are many ways to embrace the season and align with it, to dance and dwell more intentionally. I find that leaning into where our feet are in time and place creates a solid foundation for presence - for joy. For contentment and ease. So we mark these seasonal shifts and celebrate them, and in turn celebrate us; our rhythms, and our undeniable place within the ecosystem. The moon does indeed move the waters of the Earth, and within each of us, so why wouldn’t the lengthening of days impact us too?