Year: 2020

The Spring Equinox

“A vision carries a personal responsibility to carry out its directive.” Marie Baptiste

“We need a broader vision to match the world in which we act with an image that includes the forest and the trees.” “Mary Catherine Bateson
Today, March 19 marks the time of the Spring Equinox as the Sun enters the sign of Aries. The Equinox ushers in a new cycle and at this time there are significant aspects indicating the importance of new or renewed vision.
The things we have endeavored to achieve –  our hopes and dreams  for our lives – today reach a certain place of completion and are ready for a new awareness and a fresh start.
As we sow seeds in the Spring, this time bodes well for seeding our visions and aspirations for the future – visions that move us away from outgrown, unproductive patterns and behaviors. Perhaps you would like to move in a direction of more patience and tolerance, less judgement, better communication skills in relationship or more attention to your spiritual life.
It bodes well to set aside some quiet time for today to dream the future for yourself and for our small planet and all her creatures.
One of the Sabian symbols for this time is, “A woman has risen out of the ocean and a seal is embracing her.”

Mercury Re-Enters Pisces

“Today I feel centered and time is a friend instead of an old enemy…We are one, the house and I and  I am happy to be alone – time to think, time to be.” May Sarton

“The way to an ecological way of life is to treat our houses as homes, our communities as homes and nature as home. It is the intimacy in each relationship that serves the welfare of the other; at root ecology is an erotic attitude of closeness, relatedness and care.” Thomas Moore

Once when I was teaching in a small nursery school in New Hampshire, I had a little girl in my class whose family had recently moved from the city to a large sprawling farmhouse on a dirt road out in the country

In class one day we were painting our homes and instead of painting her house- as many of the children did – she painted the sun and sky and green fields and trees. I helped her to write something she wanted to add on the side of the painting and it said,”Happy in the heart, Happy way down deep.” This was an expression of her newly found love for the woods and fields surrounding her home and the joy and the tranquility she felt there.

Mercury, the planet of thought and communication has now re-entered the sign of Pisces. This is one of the watery signs of the zodiac and it’s placement here signifies a good time for deepening our connection to the spiritual and creative side of our lives. It is a good time for being grateful. It’s also a good time to slow down and appreciate our surroundings which we might rush by in the busyness and distraction of  everyday life normally.

Saturn will be entering the sign of Aquarius this week and moving one step closer to its conjunction with Jupiter in this sign in December. This conjunction speaks of the opportunity to build a healthier, more sustainable future through cooperation and collaboration.

Now is a good time to envision it.

One of the Sabian symbols for this time is, “A butterfly emerging from a chrysalis”

Sabian symbol from Lynda Hill