As we approach a very powerful time of year, I feel the renewed energy of growth and new beginnings. A time of exhilaration as I feel the desire to play hooky and spend time outdoors.

The Spring Equinox marks a balance point of time when energy starts to rise as experienced through tree sap rising and beginning to flow. We also see maple trees being tapped for their sap and we look forward to (okay drool) the maple syrup and candy to made.  This time of year we balance an egg on its end which is a visual of the balanced energies on the exact Equinox.  The Spring Equinox is a time of balanced male and female energies found in the changing and new beginnings.  From a feng shui perspective this can be seen as a balancing of the element of water and the element of fire.

The Spring Equinox comes from the place of the crosswinds on the Medicine Wheel.  The north-east direction celebrates the end of winter and the arrival of spring when everything comes back to life and awakens.

The Spirit, wind, of the East is the influencing wind during this time.  We can begin to feel the aliveness in the breeze and smell the aroma of Mother Earth as the cycle of rebirth begins. We can feel the faster moving energies that come with the equinoxes.

On the Medicine Wheel, the birth totem for March 21-April 19th is the Falcon. Kenneth Meadows, author of Earth Medicine, writes that Falcon people learn the life lesson of adaptability without compromising their ideals and principles.  They spread their wings as a symbol of new ideas and experiences.

Ted Andrews states in Nature Speaksthat the Spring Equinox is a timie to focus on conscious transmutation. I believe this means taking time to become aware of what needs to be changed in your life.

You may consider taking some time to sit in quietness for some time outdoors and consider if there is anything in your life that you would like to transmute, balance, birth as a new project. 

May your Spring Equinox bring you many blessings.  Neshi

All Rights Reserved.Copyright, Yvette Neshi Lokotz, March 2008.