26/03/2026
🌹🍂✨️Equinox blessing & Aries season✨️🍂🌹
As we just passed the Autumn Equinox, there seems to be a general amplification of conflicts all around, energies and tempers being quick to fire up. Meanwhile in the wild, we're experiencing a pretty strong storm, as if reflecting all the battles of the world raging in the winds and rain.
Such is the intensity of Aries season this year. Aries season here in the Southern hemisphere starts with the Autumn Equinox, a point of transition, a turning of tides, the days growing shorter.
While Solstices often bring topics of death and birth, I find that Equinoxes bring topics of initiations. Integration of the opposites. Balance between active and passive, integration/separation, feminine/masculine, collective/individual, war/love/peace.
This particular constellation of planets right now seem to amplify the topic of anger, war and conflict on many levels, from the conflicts within ourselves, to the conflicts around us and in the world. I find myself pondering on some questions like, what is in conflict in me? How do I react to conflict? What does conflict even mean? What's the purpose of conflict? What do we intricately need? What is raging to be heard, what do I need? What wants to be created?
Just after the Autumn Equinox, I went to Cape Reinga, the very tip of the North island, where the Pacific ocean meets the Tasman sea. Along with a strong cleanse, it got me thinking.
Here in Aotearoa, war and conflict run deep in the landscape. It is written in the land, it is spoken in the very language we speak, and the way we think. If I listen, the rage seems to stem from separation. Separation from the Earth. And disempowerment. A very deep need to reconnect. And to be sovereign. To create the new. We don't need to protect Nature, we need to be Nature.
In the wild, Kahikatea has been making herself present, as well as Tōtara. While Kahikatea holds a vast encompassing love and the collective aspiration for sisterhood and brotherhood unity, bridging what separates, Tōtara urges us to stand strong, boldly stating who we are, bringing our inner fire, knowing what ignites us. What we want to create.
Licorice, beans, Horopito, Chilli, Cinnamon, Rose and Juniper can also be called to strengthen and channel our creative fire.
To me, at the core of conflict, pride, shame and guilt stem from the same well. Disconnection to the Earth means disconnection to our natural sovereignty and authority. Freedom and life force. Life. Disconnection to the Earth pushes us to compensate with pride to gain back forced authority or guilt for needing sustenance. With a personal connection to the Earth, we have natural authority, sovereignty and nourishment. True freedom. We need no shame, no guilt nor pride. Nor conflict.
I wish us all natural sovereignty, nourishment and freedom. A personal connection to the Earth. Access to a piece of land. To create ourselves.
I believe this is Peace. In our hands, in the soil of the Earth.
Be peace, alive and creative. Be Earth.
🔥🍂✨️Equinox blessings ✨️🍂🔥
