Spring Equinox 2026

I’m feeling inspired. There is excitement in the air. I can sense new growth happening all around me. Buds opening, blossoms blooming, shoots reaching upwards and outwards and I am feeling the growth in myself too. My personal self. Not the big self we are all part of, but my heart, gut, mind, body and soul.

This is good because isn’t life about learning and growing… at any age?

This morning I noticed a post on LINKEDIN about Thoughtbox. Triple Wellbeing in Education for self, others and planet. If you don’t know them please check them out… they have just released a whole load of their excellent resources for free. I’m excited to read the three books of short stories I have just bought… I need to grow the number of stories in my story bag this year and I think I’ve just found a good source. Hooray!

For me spring equinox is very much about looking across the arc of the year and setting an intention for growth. It’s a moment of mapping forwards. Yes it’s a point of balance, and welcoming the longer days, emergence and proclamation, but it’s also about sunrise and shining our light out into the world. Maybe there is no clear path yet, and your light is going in all directions…so I wish you clarity of purpose, voice and action as the wheel of the year turns.

We have evolved in tandem with the land. Our stories, memories and most importantly larders, are linked, connected and consolidated with places on the land. It’s as though when we stand in the place when a ‘something’ happened a light bulb flicks on in our brains and we can access more.

This morning I noticed that there is a Hemlock plant beginning to grow in the wood yard. Here at Holyford. Hemlock is a hazard. Hazards are important. They help us stay awake and aware. I will remember where the hemlock is and remove it very soon.

I wish I could do the same with Trump.

He is a global hazard and his ‘growth’ this spring reminds us of the dangers of being too oil dependent, of backing greed and impulsive, blind male dominance, and of being easily manipulated by others in power too. I am finding it all quite astounding and weirdly coinciding with some unusual astronomical line ups. I am shocked at the amount of death that these people in power seem to be ok with to achieve their aims.

I wonder what the arc of the year looks like now for people around the world… the ripples will be felt everywhere.

The price of diesel in the pumps have jumped rapidly. I’ve been very aware of this because I have been travelling a lot around the South of England delivering workshops for the last few weeks. Waking up in a different place several days of the week I’ve been feeling a bit like the sun - whose sunrise position is moving rapidly (northwards) along the horizon rapidly.

While driving I listen to audio books. At the moment I’m listening to H for Hawk. I’m loving it. A line stuck out for me about T. H. White’s ‘need to excel to be loved.’

I wondered to myself “do I love myself enough even when I don’t excel?”

I am often my worst critic and I do like to be good at things, especially at physical things, and I can be harsh on myself when I am not up to the high standards I expect of myself, and the culture I was born into and raised within.

How about you? Do you love yourself even though you might not excel?

Pause for thought :-)

And so to my final thought and question for this re-visit to the spring equinox in the spiral of time, is…

Will I, like a plant using the sun’s light energy to grow, bring love into all my being and doing for the rest of this year?

I will do my best to do so.

And may love be with you also in these interesting times.