Today marks the Spring Equinox, the official start of spring (Aries season), the balance of light and dark and astrologically the start of the astrological new year! So, if you didn’t feel like January 1st was your big entrance into the 2024, you get a second try!
We are moving from the fog and immersiveness of Pisces, the inertia of winter into the firey action oriented Aries. The tree shown above was only buds a week ago and then bam-its flowers takes stage front and center with little transition, no opening act. Straight to the point. That is very much how this season feels this year.
Although this day is normally represented by an attribute to balance, I want to offer you an invitation on this equinox that packs a punch like only Aries can. The current planetary positions won’t let this day and season be downplayed. Balance is often the skill of holding many energies that appear to contradict. Like practicing the balance of the dualities of rest, action, change, pleasure all in the service to our evolution to genius?
Aries is about decision. Ones that take courage and the guts to venture out first, before you know it is safe. Not the decisions that Libra makes in trying to appease the crowd or place nice. No, Aries makes the decision that looks out for numero uno. It follows an impulse, a desire so strong that it is willing to fight, to reckon with danger, and to cut cords with anything that gets in the way.
We may view this is selfish and cold but withhold that judgement a bit longer to hear me out. Desire is nothing but personal. It really isn’t a group consensus. If Aries is about leadership and pioneering our way towards the action to create something new then we have to care less about the noise around us and more about the fire in our bellies. That drive that moves us without thought or contemplation because it is in us so deep. It did not make sense to travel across the country to seek out the west coast, but those explorers were seeking something different and they wanted it so badly there were willing to risk it all and die trying.
We often see creation as beautiful but is has its intense and fierce side. We have to stake claim to what we want and prove it with decisive and swift action. We have to be willing cut away the old so as not to straddle the fence and dance with the possibilities forever. If we want to be leaders (in any sense), we have to at some point go first and go all out. Otherwise, why would anyone follow?
The seed has to fight like hell to emerge from the frozen ground. It can’t go halfsies and see if all the other seeds are ready and on board and calculate other options and cost/benefit just in case. It goes for it. All in.
We are being awakened from the imbalance of putting aside our deep desires that are ready to be born for the sake of agendas that do not serve our own evolutionary purpose. There is no one else here to be you, but you. Collectively the wake up call is in effect. Now its decision time.
Where are your desires? Are you one with them? Are you aligned with what you value?
What is truly leading you? Your desires or the desires of others, the collective, your conditioning?
What are you willing to do to step into your leadership role as creator and leader of the life you are meant to live so you can show up authentically and fully?
If you don’t know then on this day, my invitation is to get still. Tune in and receive what is is ready for you. Instead of letting fear contract and stall you, let it be your doorway to expand.
This is a time of personal leadership. It is time to claim:
Your worthiness and relationship to pleasure, joy and fulfillment NOW
Your place as leader and creator of your life
The spiritual nature to your desire and its role in leading you straight towards your genius zone-your place of immense fulfillment and vitality
The new paradigm of security and stability that comes from within your embodied presence of you being YOU unfiltered
That abundance is your nature and the universe wants to show you how generative you are when you activate your receptivity
To name a few…
If we truly want to start a revolution. It starts with self-care, not massages and baths but the depth to which we are willing to care about our desires. When we do, we are able to step into the fullest expression of ourselves. We are able to truly know ourselves by what it feels like to live from this deep place of internal guidance and direction.
The energy ripens, the invitation opens the portal to your creative genius…will you leap in?
Fear is not a sign to turn back but the signal to access the courage to turn towards your heart.