Vernal Equinox, 2025
Vernal Equinox
March 20, 2025 at 4:01 am CST
Dear, Beautiful and Cherished Children of the Earth,
Sunlight is returning to the Northern Hemisphere. Spring is here! From now until the Summer Solstice, we’ll have increasing hours of daylight.
This moment, the Vernal Equinox, when the Sun enters the Zodiac sign of Aries, has been celebrated as long as there have been people to celebrate.
Honoring Resurrection and Renewal, this is the time of year when we connect to a resurgence of the Life Force.
Clearing fields, planting seeds, or just stepping outside to smell Spring in the air, we can feel the energies in us and around us quickening.
Here in 2025, we are all immersed in great changes.
Frightening, disorienting and paralyzing, these changes can make us feel like our brains and nervous systems are short-circuiting.
All the more reason to step outside and connect with the energy of resurrection and resurgence. Our inner strength shows up this time of year. Just like every other living being on this planet, it’s time to connect to the life force.
Take advantage of this flow of energy and get yourself out into nature. Put your feet in dirt or grass or sand or water and feel the energy of being alive.
Then connect.
Connect to Life itself, to our families, our friends, our communities. They need us and we need them. Winter is gone. Isolation is over. It’s time to get grounded, feel our own strength and connect to others.
In the language of Astrology, this Equinox is marked by the assistance of Neptune, the part of us that is genius at compassionate connection.
Neptune is always asking us: Deep down, what is your heart aching for?
Springtime is ruled by Mars, the part of our psyche that must take action.
Neptune is showing up to help us temper our actions with compassionate connection.
New Life. Resurrection. Connection.
May all beings feel safe
May all beings be happy
Namaste,
Mary
to be alive right now anyway
with a nod to Rachel Boughton
despite the terrible future
I imagine for my grandchildren.
despite the country of my birth
being overrun by bullies
to be alive right now anyway
because I am and cannot be
what I am not, cannot live
where my body is not.
To be alive right now anyway
because no matter how I expecte
endless dreams for my children
and theirs, right now is where we are.
right now is where we always are
so I will breath, love those children,
those grandchildren and know
that the right now they will inhabit
is theirs. It never was mine.
The gift I offer them always:
To be alive right now anyway.
Learn More About the Vernal Equinox
March Equinox information from Timeand Date.com
The First Day of Spring 2025 from Almanac.com
How to Celebrate Ostara from Mabon House