THE DRUID'S DOORWAY
Sleepers awaken!
This year’s Spring Equinox (March 19-20) marked Sol’s yearly ingress into the “cardinal” fire sign of Aries, a sign that comprises a season of approximately 30 days and extends three further weeks into April. Energy literally “springs” upward!
Aries’ symbol perfectly depicts the upward and outward leaping of birth, sunrise, and spring. Although symbolizing a ram’s head, it also observes two outward-turning spirals, suggesting a mini Big Bang. By nature, all “masculine” signs are centrifugal. Likewise, the Spring Equinox stimulates the centrifugal movement of energy within us, outward and away from the center.
In Aries, the cosmic vital force leaps rapidly upward through the head, eyes, brain, arteries, and muscles.
Therefore, Aries’s prana (life force) stimulates testosterone and adrenalin. This thirty-day season is ideal for brain, eye, and adrenal support. Try our Brain Kit with adaptogenic nootropics and Lion’s Mane Brain Super-Tonic power to nourish your nervous system through these seasonal transitions.
Learn more about medical Aries in The Twelve Sun Sign Syndromes and Body Types.
The Spring season's most furiously “fiery” dates occurred on March 29 with the Aries partial North Node Solar Eclipse at 3:58 am PT, and even more so will occur between April 17-19 when the Sun, Mercury, and fiery Mars briefly sojourn together in the fire signs. Now, energy swings forcefully upward and outward towards the head, eyes, brain, arterial system, and heart.
For some people, these days may warn of an excess of hot, dry “fire” element.
This planetary signature may raise arterial pressure, increase inflammation, or heighten mania, panic, or stroke or heart attack potential in prone individuals. With your physician’s consent, the perfect herbs for this period are Anima Mundi’s organic yarrow, the traditional “master of the blood,” or their soothing rose, available as a powder, dried petals, essential anointing oil, rose-infused self-care and skincare blends, and a variety of other exquisite herbal formulas.
Something “supernatural” is afoot this equinox season!
Aries is the first sign, or head of the great seasonal cycle, whereas Pisces is the last sign, the feet. The shift from winter’s dark time, self-dissolution, and sleep to springtime, daylight, and newly emergent individuality comprises the singularly most significant sign boundary of the zodiac. This boundary also signifies a “crack between the worlds,” recalled in druidic tales of prophets who stand on one leg at twilight or dawn while peering with one eye through a hole in a “hag stone” in hopes of viewing into the world of faery, or perhaps the distant future. Celtic lore instructs that fairies are easiest seen at the “tween times” of dawn, dusk, equinox, and solstice.
The idea that one can peer between two worlds while standing at their specified time borders is indeed real.
Psychically sensitive, or depressed individuals may require extra support through the profoundly spiritual final two-three days of the last sign Pisces, through the Vernal Equinox (March 19-20), and also between March 30 - April 16 when Mercury, Venus, Neptune and the Moon’s North Node all conjoin at the end of Pisces at the crack between the worlds. Psychically stable folks who wish to peer between worlds at these times may find lucid dreaming assistance with Anima Mundi’s Dream Tea or seek spiritual venturing protection with their ethically sourced Palo Santo.
During the spring equinox, we feel a strong rise of vital force within and without. However, this year’s event retains dominant influences from the last degrees of the cyclically previous dreamy and diffusive sign of Pisces. Thus, as end and beginning conjoin, the border between the worlds is exceptionally porous this year. The wise know their psychic boundaries and guard them accordingly. The spiritually mature can more readily attune to Universal Oneness (Pisces) while simultaneously awakening their individual potential (Aries).
*Disclaimer: All astrological information is to be considered "hypothetical" and does not, therefore, constitute a medical opinion, fact, or directive. Please consult your physician if you are experiencing health concerns. Herbs should not be used without your physician’s consent.
