Witchy Sh!t : Spring Equinox 2025

Resources for your rituals and practices

Tomorrow is the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere (and fall equinox in the southern). The equinoxes mark the midway between solstices, they are the times of year we have equal hours of daylight and nighttime in a 24 hour period. The spring equinox represents rebirth, creativity, shifting from the quiet slowness and composting of winter into the more active planting and harvesting of spring and summer. It also marks the astrological new year as the equinox is also the first day of Aries season, as an extra nod to new beginnings, starting over, starting fresh, giving time and space for both rooting down and branching out.

Paying attention to the cycles of the sun and moon, I believe, is an important part of our trauma and decolinization work. Finding our ways back to the rhythms of nature, allowing ourselves to slow down, to notice, to be present to our symbiotic relationship with the Earth, helps us unravel our own pain and social indoctrination and gives us opportunities t…