Happy Spring Equinox, or Ostara!  With our celebration of life emerging after Winter, Death Valley in California joins our celebration with a superbloom for 2026!  For me, my local Wheel of the Year has more blooming activity around Beltane, but of course my Michigan land (where some area just got literally 3′ of snow, and I woke up this morning to 18 degree F temperatures), is quite different from California.     

However you local land is bringing back life after Winter, our spirituality (and the Earth herself!) brings us Ostara, the Spring Equinox today – a great reminder that life returns after challenges, as well as a reminder of that every cool thing has to start, and it’s a great time to start new things.  Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the  Fall Equinox (& Mabon) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends.  The moment of the Equinox is at 10:46 am  (EDT), Friday, March 20th, which means that for most of the planet, it’ll be on the 20th.  Life will return!  Some of the online celebrations haven’t happened yet.  Check out the links here to join any of them.

Celebrations

Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were published a few weeks ago. My family will celebrate the Equinox Saturday, with the egg coloring and other traditions mentioned in the post just linked to.  We have found that leaving them in the dye in the cold garage over night deepens their color.  In whatever way you are celebrating, Happy Equinox!

This is an  updated version of the yearly Spring Equinox announcement.   An overview of the eight holidays of the Wheel of the Year, from a naturalistic perspective, is here.