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REORIENTATION

Finding Balance at Spring Equinox

We are on the cusp of a huge threshold. The wheel of the year has been gently turning us from the depths of winter into the arcing energy of Spring. The moon waxes in a new cycle as we step over the threshold from Winter to Spring, from North (Earth, Ancestors) to East (Air, Child). We are approaching the Spring Equinox - ‘Equal Night’ - the balance between light and dark

SUN SIGN

Final days of Piscies season supporting us to clear the karmic lessons of the past twelve months - evaluating, finalising and devising new ways of being

MOON SIGN

Today (17th March) the Moon is in the sign of Gemini - the Twins. Gemini is an Air sign - so when Air meets Air (Gemini in the Moon) we meet a lot of swirling energy, potential for connection (or disconnect) to higher self and the spirit realms, a lot of thinking and over-thinking that can make physical plane tasks quite ungrounded. There is a lot of moving between states. This or that. It can be useful to replace ‘or’ for ‘and’. This AND that. You might be adaptable or distracted and restless. Gemini is ruled by Mercury so you may feel all over the place!

ALCHEMY

Today (17th) - with an Air Moon in an Air sign in a water Season - bubbling waters starting to areate and erupt from within the earth. The opportunity for all to bubble to the surface - it is a high water table here in the UK from six months of water. The influx of the final water days can be disorienting - like there is no solid ground. Remember that you can always find the ground in the choas - sometimes that means fully laying your body on it and yielding it all back to the great mother. The potency of our will can be confronting as we start to notice just how much agency over our lives is possible. In order to start afresh or change direction, to ‘break through’ we might be truly testing our limitations and meeting challenges that are asking for our attention. To place our precious energy where it is most needed may create a confronting re-evaluation which needs to go beyond the dream and into the world. As we navigate Pluto in Aquarius we are experiencing the unearthing of the individual in Community. Maybe you need to ask for support from being individuated? Maybe its high time we all did?

SHADOW SELF

Unworthiness, unique process not honoured, unloved. What is surpressed finds a way - like a plant finding sunlight through the cracks of a pavement

SHADOW SUPPORT

Self mothering of the inner child ~ loving reflections from those who can bring the balance of love. Allow the full spectrum of you to be present with loving arms. You deserve your own love and you are deserving of love. When we seek for love we are invited to offer it out to - to com into relationship with what we are meeting and find ways to consciously navigate that

CONTEMPLATION

The Sun is always on full ~ the moon reflects the sun and appears to cycle through phases - we are never not fully here but we need to take periods of rest and regeneration

What has the winter taught you?

What is present?

What dreams need to be planted out in the fertile soil?

What reflections arise as you recall how you met winter within and without?

We are akin to a vulnerable, tender shoot in need of support and protection in balance with spaciousness and nourishment in order to grow

Boundaries but also loving guidance and supportive course correction

Not abandonment or exile. Perhaps we notice how quick we are to self-abandon or self exile …

PRESENCE PRACTICE

Find a person who can listen to you without the need to judge or fix you. And a place where you can be with the potion of your emotions and are able to fully express what arises. A place where you are safe to be totally honest. A loving ear who can just hold what you are saying to allow what needs to be said to arise. If you do not have this person available create a space to journal where you specifically call in the energy of this loving person to witness you. Journal or speak all the things that are not working, that need to be tended to - whether that is present emotions that are surfacing or very real practicalities. Rather than being solutions based - for now just allow it to be here. Allow yourself to voice or pen what has risen up. As the wellspring of your being rises to meet you - allow the emotion to be expressed. In Aries season we will return to this and work towards action-based solutions or resolutions - feeling and action. Before we can heal it, we need to see what it is that is asking to be seen and then how we can tangibly and practically meet what is needed

PLANT WISDOM

Nettle and Cleavers

*Always ask permission from the plants to work with them, listen to the wisdom that arises when sitting with them, forage only what you need and with deep respect and reverence. Consider how you can support them to thrive so that they may continue to offer you rich medicine for years to come. Forge a deep and strong relationship to the plant kin

The alchemy of water (cleavers) and fire (Nettle)

Greet and witness these companion twins and notice the difference between them

Nettle

Start to work with Nettle to shore up your boundaries as you step out into the world with rooted, resilient energy. Nettle purifies and enriches your blood with its host of vitamins and minerals. It is the ‘Mothers green milk’ of the land. As we strengthen this connection we begin to heal what has been stripped away from our fertile ground. Nettle literally regenerates the land it grows on - sending deep nourishment into the earth. It does the same for us

Suggestions: Nettle tea, soup or pancakes or drop scones

Cleavers

Cold Infusion Tonic

Forage Cleavers newly arisen shoots from an unsprayed area away from dog walks, if needed wash them. A handful is sufficient for one cup of tonic. Place into a blender with a cup of water (ideally spring or the best you can get hold of) blend and place the mixture in the fridge, ideally overnight (if not for at least a few hours). Strain and you will be left with a potent lymphatic clearing tonic. Ease in with gentle sips over the day and you can build up this clearing support without overly stressing your kidneys. Consider making a batch to freeze as ice cubes and use in your spring cleanse

WOMB WISDOM

In moving from deep winter bleed time into the burgeoning energies of Spring, there can be the trickster energy present - the energy that can pull you too far before you are ready. The egoic, solar, action-oriented mind squashes the tender unfurling and generative process of being steady with the slow sustainable action. It wants to be there - wherever that is… Then we end up tired, overwrought and wanting to retreat. Spring can feel like a time of depletion if we try to run before we can walk. We are in transition. We are re-learning our lunar nature in a solar world. Honouring and balancing our Matriarchal in a Patriarchal realm. Be aware of how fast you want to evoke the up and out energies

EMBODIMENT RITUALS

Aereate your body - shake loose the stagnancy - allow your emotions to show you what is important, to assist you in providing focus to what needs your attention. Where in your body is calling for attention? If you stand firmly rooted and scan your body what do you notice? Can you give words or movements to the places and feeling that are arising. Can you simply notice the flux of your body in the relational field?

Animal or Mineral?

Be you butterfly, snake or seed - pick one (or do all of them one by one) - Begin from cocoon, belly or seed. Drop into the solar plexus - sensing an awakening of energy that flows from your heart, in a figure of eight to your root via the solar plexus. Play with the theme of emerging in your own body temple, move not in the way that your mind wants to, but feel your way

To reorient you need to change direction - you need to come out and be in nature more and more for the full light codes of Spring to reach you. You need to be more action-oriented rather than in the dreamy hermitude. This can be very confronting for your body if you rush and overdo it. Slow, sustainable action. Be guided by your own rhythm and no one else’s

Continue to meet, clear and flush any stagnancy of winter through you - keep hydrating! Be sure you are tending to your inner waters with love and compassion

OSTARA ALCHEMY

Aries Sun & Aquarius Moon (19th) or Leo Moon (20th)

So if you meet Ostara on the 19th you will be connecting to the energy of the potential for action in the sign of the humanitarian visionary or the action of being seen on the 20th

20th March 2024 3:06am GMT / 19th March 2024 11:06pm EDT

EOSTRE is the pagan goddess of Spring and where the word Easter originates

Eostre is where we get the word Eostrogen from - full of the spark of life - full of the codes of becoming

Direction: East

Archetypes: Maiden - the fool - the novice - the initiate

Element: Air

Season: Spring

Zodiac: Aries (Elemental Fire) Cardinal

Solar tide: Rising sun

Energy: Awakening Quickening Emergence Movement

Glyph: The ram / the shoot

Shift: Moving from the dark half to the light half of the year

Sap: Rising

ALTAR

Fertility ~ Rebirth ~ Renewal

At the threshold of Ostara - whose energies are already percolating - the Piscean mystic of the waters hands over the baton to the initiatrix energies of Aries

This is the time for Spring Clearing - clearing the energy of all of your tools and spaces

Allow your inner child out to play

WILD CRAFT

If you had a Winter wreath consider beginning to collect the flowers of Spring to dry and create a Spring season wreath to honour your threshold. One activity I love to do is to wildcraft a nest with straw and twigs, line with moss and decorate with seasonal flowers. You can place a seed in the centre to represent what is growing for you. You are creating a safe container for your dreams to be nested and protected until they are ready to come through. The cosmic egg or the seed cracking open represents the strength of transitioning from one realm to another - despite the seeming fragility of the lifeforce within

INCANTATION

“I gently practice how I use my energy out in the world; I tend to my needs and consider those that I am meeting”

HORIZON

This week we are waxing towards a prenumbral eclipse in line with the Full Moon

You are the mystery school