VERNAL REBIRTH!
We have arrived at the Vernal Equinox, still point of the year — the time of equal light, equal dark. This signifies a REBIRTH, the beginning of Aries season and our astrological new year! It’s a time for new beginnings, tender green shoots emerging from the darkness, bright blossoming, awakening fresh starts, and riotous birdsong — but especially here in Texas, it all feels so fleeting.
Blink, and you just might miss the mauve-y pink sprays of redbuds blooming — already the leaves have started to appear on their branches, and my peach and pear trees are a-fizz with bees.
Even the succulents are blossoming, and ready to brush off winter’s cobwebs!
Retrograde and eclipse season is the perfect time to delve into all the “re” activities: refocusing, reexamining, recalibrating, and most importantly, RE-VIVING!
As many of my favorite clients and witches regard springtime as the TRUE New Year, I’ve been busy doing lots of New Year Refocus readings.
The Vernal Equinox is our time to bringing what is most essential in us back to life! If you’ve gotten a bit lost or distracted on your goals and need to re-clarifying, please reach out.
Blooming happens when we feed the roots, water deep, and let the bulbs and seeds rest beneath the soil for as long as they need. I hope you all are being patient with the blossoming, too. We’re not taught to do that — so it helps to encourage one another to trust that it’s worth waiting for!
From one of my favorite decks, the Enchanted Zerner-Farber Tarot.
I always associate the Ace of Wands with the first day of Spring — which coincides with the beginning of Aries season, and the astrological New Year! This card in the tarot represents new beginnings as well — the spark of life, inspiration, and fiery creative passion returning to reignite our spirits, and motivating us to initiate growth, movement, and positive change!
The Ace of Wands is the struck match, the fire lit under our butts, the sap rising in the roots of plants and in our loins, and the first tendrils of new seedlings making their way out of the moist, dark earth. It is fresh inspiration, raw potential, and the embers of new passion — but while Aces are gifts from the universe, they are not promises. If we want to see them grow and multiply, we have to protect that bright flame, nurture the tender sprouts, feed the soil, and kindle the fire to keep the energy going! The baton is being passed to us, but we must light the torch, and carry that spark onwards!
I’ve been keeping the Ace of Wands on my main tarot altar! It’s such a powerful card.
This card asks us to get crystal clear about what it is we REALLY WANT, and invites us take a long look at what it would feel like to experience desire from our root and sacral (red/mūlādhāra and orange/svādhiṣṭhāna) chakras. All too often, when we’re motivated by fire energy (be it passion, horniness, anger, creativity, action) it’s from a reactive “leap before we look” mode. The fire of desire is a powerful force – and it can be destructive (rather than creative) when we aren’t coming from a place of true balance in our thoughts and emotions.
An array of Ace of Wands cards from my Elements in the Tarot class at The Herb Bar
It’s also important to consider with this eclipse season (and after the past few extremely intense years) that we have all been transformed pretty radically – we aren’t really the same people that we were, and accordingly, our desires have likely changed as well. You may find that things (relationships/friendships/living situations/workplace dynamics) don’t fulfill you in the way that they used to, or that the energy has grown stagnant, murky, or unhealthy.
It’s time to get honest with your heart, your will, and your true desires. That’s the gas in your tank, the fire under your ass, and the spark to your tinder – so don’t ignore your fire, or you might just find yourself with nothing but a pile of rubble and cold ashes… Get clear about what’s true for you now by meditating, and focusing on what makes you feel excited and fired up these days, and allowing for some curiosity if you discover that what you used to want has shifted!
If you find that you can’t sit still, I recommend pulling weeds in the garden — and if you don’t have a garden, I bet you can find someone who does! Nothing realigns my mind like digging around in the dirt — and this is an ideal time to start creating beauty in your neighborhoods and/or community gardens.
Plant food and fruit trees. Learn about sustainable natives and watering systems. Or, at the very least — take a freaking WALK. There are green things starting to bust out everywhere — buds are budding, and spring is springing! Go gaze at some beauty — I promise, it’s important.
Amidst the turmoil, horror, sorrow, and confusion of our current world and local landscape, there is hope arising — like fresh green tendrils, pushing through the frozen earth. Spring is finally here — winter’s ice has thawed, and it’s now time to water our gardens, tend to our hearts, and use the motivating fire of new life to get moving, grooving, and GROWING!
A very Ace of Wands-esque bloom from my garden!
