The Light Is Returning. Are You Ready to Meet It?
The Light Is Returning. Are You Ready to Meet It?
20 March 2026 • 2.45pm • Sol enters Aries
At 2.45pm on 20 March, the Sol steps into Aries.
Day and night stand in perfect balance.
And then, with quiet certainty, the light begins to grow.
This is the Spring Equinox. One of the festivals on the wheel of the year, marked by our ancestors with fires lit on hilltops, seeds pressed into freshly turned earth, and prayers offered for a season of abundance. Long before anyone could name the astrology of this moment, women knew it as a threshold. A turning. A time to begin.
It is that still. Right now. For you.
Perhaps you are coming into this season carrying the weight of a long winter. Perhaps you have been giving more than you have been receiving, moving through your days feeling stretched between what is asked of you and what you genuinely have left to give. Maybe there is something inside you, a quiet knowing, a restlessness, a feeling that you are standing at the edge of something that has been building for months.
If any of that is true, I want you to know that this moment in the heavens was not designed for the woman who has everything figured out. It was designed for the woman who is ready to step toward the light, even if she cannot yet see the full path ahead.
The Spring Equinox is not asking you to arrive already transformed. It is asking you to begin.
Why This Equinox Carries Particular Weight
Every Spring Equinox is significant. But this year, something rare is gathered in the sky that gives this particular threshold an extraordinary depth of meaning.
Just weeks ago, on 20 February 2026, Saturnia and Neptunia formed an exact conjunction at 0 degrees Aries. A world point. An absolute beginning. This conjunction had not occurred for 6,000 years. Not in your lifetime, not in your grandmother’s lifetime, not in any lineage of memory you carry.
Saturnia asks us to build real structure around what matters. Neptunia dissolves what is no longer true so that something more honest can take its place. Together, at 0 degrees of Aries, they have been doing deep and sometimes uncomfortable work: clearing old identities, dissolving the stories we have been carrying about our limitations, asking us to become honest about where we have been living on empty.
The Equinox arrives as the continuation of all of that clearing. Both Saturnia and Neptunia are still present in Aries as Sol enters at 0 degrees, joining a stellium that includes Chiron at 25 degrees, Venus at 17 degrees, and Lunar at 20 degrees. The landscape of Aries is full.
This is not pressure. This is possibility.
The ground has been prepared. The light is returning. This is the moment you plant the seeds of who you are choosing to become.
The chart for this Equinox is dominated by fire and cardinal energy. Fire acts, inspires, and initiates. Cardinal energy moves forward. This is a chart for beginning, not for waiting.
This Is Your Permission to Begin Again
There is something profound about Sol entering Aries at 0 degrees. This is the beginning of a new cycle with the Silver Wheel.We begin again on a journey that will take us through each sign over the coming 12 months. It offers a clean slate, not a consolation prize. It is a gift. It means that whatever unfolded in the season behind you, whatever felt stuck, unfinished, or heavier than you expected, does not define the one ahead.
You are not arriving at this threshold with nothing. You are arriving with everything you have learned, everything you have navigated, every piece of wisdom that difficult seasons carry. But you are also arriving at a genuine new beginning, and that is something worth pausing to feel.
What would it mean to enter this season without the weight of who you think you should have been by now? What would it mean to begin from exactly where you are, rather than from where you think you ought to be?
Saturnia and Neptunia in Aries are offering you a specific kind of new beginning: one that is grounded in honesty about what is real, and courageous enough to build toward what is possible. Not a fantasy of transformation. A real, embodied, chosen shift in how you move through your own life.
Spring does not apologise for arriving. It simply does.
Sol at 0° Aries, Neptunia at 1°, Saturnia at 4°: dissolution meeting structure at the very beginning of the zodiac. The Great Conjunction of 20 February cleared the ground. The Equinox is the moment to plant.
Journal Prompts
What am I genuinely ready to leave in winter this year?
If I began this season from a place of self-trust rather than self-doubt, what would I do differently?
What does a true new beginning look like for me; not a dramatic reinvention, but a real and honest shift?
What is one thing I have been waiting to feel ready for that I am, if I am honest, already ready for?
Affirmation
I give myself full permission to begin again.
I arrive at this threshold with everything I need.
I choose to move forward from here.
The Path You Have Already Walked Is Your Strength
Chiron sits at 25 degrees Aries within this stellium. In sacred astrology, Chiron is the wounded healer, the one who knows the territory of pain and transforms that knowledge into wisdom and medicine for others.
Her placement in this chart is not incidental. It is central.
Chiron in Aries speaks to the deep place in us that has questioned whether we are truly enough. Enough to be seen. Enough to lead. Enough to claim the life or the work that genuinely calls to us. This is one of the most common threads I witness in the women I work with, not a lack of capability, not a lack of vision, but a long-held question about whether they have the right to step fully into it.
What Chiron teaches, without exception, is this: the path you have walked through difficulty is not a detour from your purpose. It is the source of your most honest and powerful work.
The woman who has moved through depletion and chosen to find her way back to herself does not arrive at this threshold with less than other women. She arrives with a depth of understanding, a capacity for compassion, and a clarity about what actually matters that can only come from having genuinely navigated something hard.
Your history does not hold you back from this season. In many ways, it is precisely why you are here.
Chiron at 25° Aries: the wounded healer in the sign of identity and new beginnings. Her presence in this stellium asks us to stop treating our past as something to overcome and start recognising it as something to build from.
Journal Prompts
What have I navigated in the past year that I have not yet fully acknowledged or honoured?
What wisdom do I carry now that I did not have before, and who needs to hear it?
Where have I been treating my own story as a liability when it is actually a source of depth and authority?
What would I do in this season if I genuinely trusted that my experience qualifies me?
Affirmation
My path has shaped me, not diminished me.
What I have lived through is the foundation of what I have to offer.
I step forward carrying my wisdom, not my shame.
Trust What You Feel
Lunar and Venus are in close conjunction in Aries at this Equinox, Lunar at 20 degrees, Venus at 17 degrees. Our emotional truth and our sense of self-worth, fused together in the most action-oriented sign of the zodiac.
This is a powerful invitation, and it is one that many women find genuinely challenging. We are so often trained to manage our emotions before expressing them. To sense-check our desires against what seems reasonable. To measure what we want against what we feel we have earned the right to want.
This chart is not interested in any of that.
The Aries Lunar-Venus conjunction is asking you to trust what you feel. Not to perform certainty you do not have, not to project confidence whilst quietly doubting yourself, but to let your genuine emotional truth and your genuine sense of your own worth move as one force into this new season.
What do you actually want? Not what you think you should want. Not what seems sensible or proportionate or appropriately modest. What, if you removed all the conditions and qualifications, do you genuinely want your life to look and feel like?
Self-worth in action does not look like grand declarations. It looks like small, consistent choices made in the direction of what you actually value. It looks like stopping the quiet negotiations you have been having with your own potential. It looks like deciding that your desires deserve to take up space.
Lunar at 20° Aries conjunct Venus at 17° Aries: emotion and self-worth as one force. Jupitera in Cancer squares both, adding emotional depth and reminding us that how we feel as we move forward matters as much as the movement itself.
Journal Prompts
What do I genuinely want from this season, honestly, without editing it into something more acceptable?
Where have I been quietly negotiating with myself, accepting less than I know I deserve?
What would it look like to trust my emotional responses as genuine intelligence rather than inconveniences to be managed?
What one area of my life is asking me to raise my standard of self-respect?
Affirmation
My emotions are a source of wisdom, not a problem to solve.
What I want matters.
I move forward trusting what I know and what I feel.
Your Voice Is Ready
On the very day of the Equinox, Mercuria stations direct at exactly 8 degrees Pisces, in precise conjunction with the North Node of the Moon at 8 degrees Pisces.
Mercuria has been retrograde, turning inward, reviewing, reconsidering. And now, on the threshold of this new season, she turns and faces forward. Her message is clear: the time for inner rehearsal is over.
The North Node in Pisces represents the direction the universe is asking us to grow toward. In Pisces, that direction is the voice of the mystic, the woman who speaks from genuine spiritual knowing rather than from performance or proof. The voice that is honest, poetic, and rooted in real inner listening.
In direct opposition, the South Node sits at 8 degrees Virgo. This is the old pattern: the endless refining, the waiting until the words are perfect, the shrinking of your message until it is so carefully crafted it has lost its power. The feeling that you need more credentials, more followers, more evidence that you deserve to be heard before you speak.
Black Moon Lilith at 10 degrees Sagittarius completes a mutable T-square with this axis. She is the wild, uncontainable feminine who refuses to be sanitised. As the apex of this T-square, she is asking for the big vision. The honest declaration. The willingness to name what you actually stand for rather than softening it for the sake of not being challenged.
The message of this configuration is direct: you already have what you need to say. Say it.
Mercuria stationing direct conjunct North Node at 8° Pisces, opposite South Node at 8° Virgo, with Black Moon Lilith at 10° Sagittarius at the apex: your voice moving toward its destiny, with your habit of shrinking it being the only real obstacle.
Journal Prompts
What have I been wanting to say, write, or create that I have been holding back?
Who am I actually here to speak to, and what do they most need to hear from me?
Where am I hiding behind careful language when honest language would serve better?
If I trusted completely that my voice was needed, what would I do first?
Affirmation
I speak with clarity, honesty, and spiritual courage.
My voice does not need to be perfect. It needs to be real.
I say what I mean. I mean what I say. That is enough.
Move Forward and Look After Yourself as You Go
With a stellium of fire in Aries and a chart full of initiatory energy, it would be very easy to throw yourself into this new season at full speed and arrive at summer completely depleted. Jupitera in Cancer is the voice in this chart that gently and firmly says: not like that.
Jupitera is the planet of expansion and abundance. In Cancer, she grows through depth of feeling, genuine nourishment, and being truly at home in yourself. She squares both Lunar and Venus in Aries, which creates a real and important tension: the pull between moving fast and moving well.
This tension is not here to slow you down. It is here to help you go further.
The most powerful thing you can understand about this season is that the pace you choose matters. Not because slower is always better, but because sustainable is always better than spectacular-then-collapsed. The women I work with who create the most lasting change are not the ones who sprint. They are the ones who keep going, who have built enough genuine self-care into their days that they still have something left to give at the end of them.
The Spring Equinox invitation is not to burn brighter. It is to move forward in a way that actually takes you where you want to go, with your energy, your health, and your joy intact when you arrive.
What does that look like for you, right now, in the life you are actually living?
Jupitera at 17° Cancer squaring Lunar and Venus in Aries: expansion and abundance through depth and genuine nourishment. The cardinal fire wants to move. The cardinal water reminds you to stay resourced as you do.
Journal Prompts
What does genuine self-care look like for me right now , not in theory, but as a daily practice?
Where am I at risk of repeating the pattern of moving forward by pushing through rather than by building sustainable foundations?
What would it feel like to move into this season with my own wellbeing as a priority rather than an afterthought?
What does my body need from me in order to support everything I am stepping into?
Affirmation
I look after myself as I move forward. These are not in conflict.
My energy is precious. I tend to it with care.
I build toward abundance without burning myself down to get there.
What Kind of Woman Do You Want to Be This Season?
This is the question the Spring Equinox is holding for you.
Not what you want to achieve. Not what your goals are. Those things matter, but they are not the heart of this moment. The heart of this moment is who you are choosing to be as you move through the next six months.
There is a kind of forward motion that looks powerful from the outside but costs everything.
That moves fast and ignores what it leaves behind. That measures progress only in external markers and forgets to ask how the woman at the centre of it all is actually doing.
And there is another kind, the kind this chart is asking for. The woman who moves forward with conviction and looks after herself as she goes. Who speaks her truth without waiting for the perfect moment. Who has stopped abandoning herself in service of keeping everything else running smoothly. Who acts from her values even when that is uncomfortable, and who knows that her power does not require anyone’s validation to be real.
This is the Sacred Reclamation path. Not perfect. Not fearless. Not without doubt or difficulty.
But honest. And rooted. And genuinely, persistently her.
Journal Prompts
Who am I choosing to be in this season?
What values do I want to lead from over the next six months?
What am I ready to stop waiting to become?
What would change if I genuinely put myself at the centre of my own life?
What one thing, done with imperfect courage, would shift the trajectory of my next six months?
Planting Your Equinox Intentions
Our ancestors understood something that we are only beginning to remember: that the turning points of the natural year are powerful moments to choose consciously. The Spring Equinox opens a six-month arc of growing light, carrying through to the Autumn Equinox in September. What you call in at this threshold carries real energetic momentum.
These intentions are not goals in the conventional sense. They are not productivity targets or to-do lists dressed in seasonal language. They are seeds. Declarations of who you are becoming and what you are choosing to grow toward.
Plant them with care. Tend to them. They will grow.
How to work with this portal
Find a quiet time on or around 20 March. Light a candle, place something meaningful on your altar, bring yourself fully into the present moment. If you work with the Goddess or with particular deities of spring, Brigid, Ostara, Persephone returning from the underworld, invite their energy in.
Begin by releasing. Write down what you are leaving in winter. What patterns, what stories, what ways of operating no longer belong in the light you are stepping into. Burn, bury, or release this into water.
Then turn toward the light. Using the prompts below, write your intentions in the present tense, as though they are already true, because the woman who carries them is already within you. She has been waiting for you to choose her.
Equinox Intention Prompts
In this season, I am reclaiming…
I am releasing my grip on…
The woman I am stepping into is…
My voice is for…
I am choosing to show up as…
The standard I am now holding for myself is…
I am tending to myself by…
By the Autumn Equinox, I will have…
Seasonal thresholds are powerful. But inspiration alone does not create change. Without structure, even the most heartfelt intentions dissolve back into old patterns. If this season is going to be different, something in your life must be different. Not in theory. In practice.
This Is the Season to Reclaim Yourself
Sacred Reclamation Coaching exists for this exact threshold.
For the woman who can feel something shifting, who knows at a deep level that this season is asking something of her but is not quite sure how to answer. For the woman who has been moving through her days giving from the bottom of the cup and is ready to change that, not just for a week or a month, but in a way that actually holds.
For the woman who has the vision but loses it when life gets loud. Who starts the journal, sets the intentions, and then finds herself six weeks later back in the same exhausted patterns. Who knows what she wants but needs real structure, genuine accountability, and a space where she is held to the truth of who she actually is.
Sacred Reclamation Coaching offers you:
Deep, one-to-one coaching that holds you to the best of who you are, not just the version of you who is managing
A sacred container that weaves together coaching, astrology, and spiritual depth
The structure and accountability to make this season’s intentions real, not just beautiful
A guide who has walked her own path through depletion and reclamation, and knows this territory intimately
The light is returning. The seeds are ready to be planted. The question the Equinox is asking is simply this:
Are you ready to choose yourself this season?
If the answer is yes, even a quiet, cautious, hopeful yes, I would love to walk alongside you.
Find out more about Sacred Reclamation Coaching
Over the next six months, the light will grow.
So will you.
If you choose it.
With love and star-fire,
Beth
