As the Sun appears at 0° Aries on March 20 this year, the archetypal energies of the celestial ram will exuberantly reemerge from the throes of winter and charge forth into a new cycle of the astrological calendar.

This is the moment of the spring equinox — also known as the vernal or March equinox — when day and night are experienced in equal measure all over the globe.

As Earth continues her perennial pilgrimage, the Northern Hemisphere will tilt more and more towards the Sun — lengthen our days and shortening our nights.

Spring equinox is akin to the sunrise of the year — bringing life-giving solar energy back to the land after a long, dark winter’s night. It’s the time of year when light — both literally and symbolical — is born from the womb of darkness.

This is a time of awakening and balancing, preparing and planting, transitioning and growing — a time to pause and reflect on what’s emerging from our depths and what seeds we’d like to plant for our future.