In the Northern Hemisphere, we will experience the Spring Equinox early on the morning of March 20. The Celtic people celebrated this day as a transition to adulthood, a day to re-dedicate ourselves to our true calling. Their wisdom for this day is ‘We give ourselves to the path that has chosen us.”
The power of this Equinox is magnified because it sits parked between a lunar eclipse on March 14 and a solar eclipse on March 29. The energy of a lunar eclipse allows us to acknowledge endings and closure. We are invited to explore questions like:
What is ‘over’ in my life?
Where have I been a victim?
What am I being asked to release?
And the solar eclipse invites us to lean into new beginnings with passion, clarity, creativity, imagination and intention.
The whole of humanity is feeling the tension between what is dying on this planet and what is on the verge of being born. As carriers of ancient feminine wisdom, we are being called upon to both hospice and midwife simultaneously. We are being asked to hold space for this ultimate Both/And moment. We have been chosen to be here at this very challenging time; this is the path that has chosen us.
And it feels like this equinox moment parked between two eclipses as patriarchy collapses is calling each of us to rise up and do something even bigger – or more accurately to BE something bigger.
Perhaps what most needs to be released in the energy of this lunar eclipse are all the stories written in our bones that keep us small. Some of these are family of origin stories; some of these are stories of ancestral trauma so cruel that it is tattooed on our souls. Such stories can keep us frozen in fear and riddled with self-doubt.
Across the arc of the twenty-five years that I have been gathering with women, I have seen so many wonderful women struggle to know their own worth, to acknowledge the miracle of their own incredible gifts. Too many times I have watched my brilliant, wise, funny friend collapse into a sadness so deep that it renders her mute and isolated. I have witnessed a thousand different ways that women deny themselves the gift of grace.
If the feminine is going to rise up and be what the world needs right now, it requires each of us individually to do the rising. We each need to lean into self-love so hard that we remember what we came here to do. And we need to trust that voice of our inner wisdom to tell us how to do it.
There is no doubt anymore about the urgency; we need to make the radical choice of reclaiming grace now.
Only then can we stand in our own natural spiritual authority and be guided by Spirit how to serve at this time with exquisite perfection. The sacred embodiment of the feminine is a potent healing formula of activated intuition, deep wisdom, clarity of intention and a profoundly nurturing form of love. When we step onto our true path, each of us begins generating grace in our families, in our communities and across this beautiful planet. This is how we create a new world.