Welcome to the Spring Equinox on March 20 2026 at 14.46 UTC in the northern hemisphere and the Autumn or Fall Equinox in the Southern world (see www.timeanddate.com for the precise time and date in your location, although the Equinox energies can be experienced also in the days preceding and following).
The actual Equilux, precise equal day and night, occurs a few days before the Equinox in the northern hemisphere and after in the southern, but it is the Equinox, Spring or Fall when the changing seasons offer the chance to turn over the pages of last season’s mistakes to the yet unwritten page promising almost anything might be possible.
The Equinox is a reminder not to miss the opportunity to notice the blossoming flowers or the rainbow of turning autumn leaves and reassess priorities for resolving problems by reason and negotiation.
Mother Nature turns the wheel of the year and spring with its new beginnings and autumn with its reconciliation of what did and did not thrive. She is a reminder of the Equinox gift to reassess what has been achieved and still can be attained; time at the turning of the year to make up that old quarrel not waiting till next month, next year and speaking too, words of love and appreciation. Give flowers to a loved one now on the Equinox to bring and share their pleasure and the promise it is not too late.
We should not give up on people or situations where there is still hope and love, or where we discover we and they are mortal, not angels or demons; there can be forgiveness and understanding and new beginnings. We cannot stop the Wheel of time but we can learn from the Equinox to strive for inner peace and equilibrium that this may radiate single sunbeam by single sunbeam through the whole world.
Wherever you live in the world on this Equinox, you might like to try this renewal of the home ritual to imprint harmony, new beginnings and reconciliation even as the world rises or falls with the seasons.
You will need:
A bowl of lavender, lilac or rose water or a floral fragrance diluted in a little water.
Timing:
Any morning around the Spring Equinox in the Northern hemisphere or the Autumn Equinox in the Southern hemisphere.
The Ritual:
- Anoint each external doorknob, handle and outer window ledge, with a few drops of fragrance, starting from outside the front door saying for each, Blessings on all, May sickness, misfortune and sorrow call here no more, except to harmony do I bar each window and door.
- Go indoors, again anointing door handles starting inside the front door and window catches and ledges in every room, repeating the words.
- Pour any fragrance that is left down a bathroom/wash basin plughole, saying, Now, only goodness and good fortune dwell herein. Blessings be henceforth within.
Happy, Equinox and may by the time the next Equinox dawns six months from now, reason and balance prevail in the world.
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