Spring Retreat Day 1: Welcome
Fresh Spring energy awaits
Hello,
What a difference a few days makes!
At the start of this month I was really not feeling the Spring energy. My March newsletter was a bit gloomy, for which I can only apologise.
But now, just a few bright, sunny days later and I’m full of the joys! Spring can commence.
Which is good, because today is day one of our virtual Spring Equinox Retreat.
If you’re getting these emails it means you’ve signed up to receive my free seasonal newsletters. A few times a year I send out an extra bundle of emails around the Solstices and Equinoxes.
This is your free Spring Equinox email package!
From today up until the Equinox on the 20th I’ll be sending you a short email each morning with a Spring-y theme or activity.
Open one each morning, or save them up to read together when you get a quiet moment. Completely up to you.
Today I’m going to start with the itinerary for the week and a bit of background to the ancient magic of the Equinox. I’ve also found us another lovely ambient soundtrack to listen to.
And later on this week I have some very exciting news to share too! Keep your eyes peeled for that…
Right, let’s go shall we?
The Itinerary
From today up until the Equinox on the 20th I’ll be sending you a short email each morning with a Spring theme to peruse at your own pace. Here’s the lineup:
Day 1: Welcome
Day 2: Spring Book Club (10 Books that feel like Spring)
Day 3: Spring Baking (Lemon, rosemary and all things fresh)
Day 4: Energy Cleansing Rituals (For a fresh start)
Day 5: Equinox Surprise (I have some news!)
What’s so special about the Spring Equinox?
The Spring Equinox on the 20th March marks the start of moving towards the light and it’s a time to celebrate the sun’s returning strength.
Ever since the shortest day, on the Winter Solstice in December, the days have been gradually lengthening as the light slowly returns, and on the Spring Equinox we reach a magical tipping point where night and day are almost exactly the same length.
From this point on each day will become longer as the light returns and we head towards the longest day of the year at the Summer Solstice.
We don’t know exactly how our ancestors celebrated the equinox because no written records exist. But there are a handful of incredible ancient monuments scattered around the world that seem to have been designed to perfectly align with the sun on the equinox, so we can assume that it was a pretty big deal, even if the finer details are a bit hazy.
How to celebrate it today?
For some the Spring Equinox offers a chance to pause and rebalance, to make plans for the coming year.
For others the Equinox is a spiritual time, where the veil between worlds thins for just a moment, offering us a glimpse of something other, something wilder.
How you decide to interpret and celebrate it is entirely up to you. Perhaps think of it as permission to put all the jobs and worries of every day life aside for a moment and remind yourself that there is a simpler, wilder way of being.
Catch a sunrise, plant your feet on the ground, take a few deep breaths. Life is good.
Your Retreat Soundtrack
We’re settling down on a cosy lakeside porch with our soundtrack this week. Listening to the sounds of the water lapping at the shore and the birds singing, with a cosy fire to take the edge off the crisp spring morning.
You can just run this quietly in the background as you read or work this week and it’ll get you into the perfect Equinox mindset. Enjoy!
Ok, that’s it for today. I’ll see you again tomorrow with a list of 10 books that feel like Spring.
(The Comments are also open if you’d like to meet others, say hello or share some Equinox chat!)
Until then,
Vicky xx
Missed a day? You can catch up with all our Retreat activities on the Seasonal Retreats tab on my homepage. Enjoy.
Certainly enjoying the lighter mornings and evenings and looking forward to the UK clocks going forward in a couple of weeks ❤️
Thanks for setting a thoughtful calendar for spring! I like the idea of grounding, what I need these days.