“The Spring Equinox opens the veil between the physical and the spiritual so that a resurrection in our lives can be inaugurated. The keynote of this season is creation. It is the drive to move our lives upward, like a seed pushing forth out of the earth into the air. The Spring is the time when the creative powers we have been nurturing through the winter can be expressed to initiate a new world of opportunities for ourselves”
Ted Andrews, Nature Speak
Táimid ar bĂs — we are excited to share our seasonal care package The Nudge with you as we approach Spring Equinox here in the northern hemisphere.
Equinox: On holding the creative tension of opposites
The word equinox comes from Latin: equi meaning equal, nox meaning night.
It marks a planetary moment of balance, a brief pause between light and dark, winter and spring, the ancient principles of feminine and masculine.
An CĂłnocht invites us to slow down and linger at this threshold.
In this suspended moment we are asked to meet the polarities within and without and explore the oppositional forces of hope and despair, creation and destruction, collapse and renewal.
Like many of you, I have been finding it difficult to locate equilibrium amid the death rattle of patriarchy. It is hard to keep up with the abuses of power and escalating crises, the hawkish rhetoric and corruption and the sense of an inevitable unravelling. And at what cost?
Holding these forces at once is not easy. The relentless shock and awe of the news cycles overwhelms our nervous systems, making it difficult to metabolise the cognitive and somatic dissonance and return to our senses.
We are living through a profound psychological and cultural rupture. As long-buried trauma rises into collective awareness, we are being asked to meet what has long remained in shadow. Only then can we begin the movement from chaos toward coherence, from rupture toward repair.
Marion Woodman reminds us that when we hold the tension of opposites, without rushing to resolve them something entirely new can emerge, a sacred third way beyond duality. Perhaps this is the deeper work of the equinox, to witness opposing forces and allow their integration, rather than collapsing into despair or retreating into denial.
Glimmers
My practice in these times is simple, to meet the triggers with loving kindness and turn my attention toward the glimmers. These are small moments of happiness that help us regulate our nervous system, subtle signals of safety that allow the body to soften and return to homeostasis. While triggers activate fear and contraction, glimmers invite a steady presence.
As my friend Mark Gonzales says “In times of terror, wage beauty”. So I try to notice the quiet signs of life, birdsong at dawn, my hands in the earth, the emergence of community care, the stirrings of cultural awakening.
The Spring Equinox is more than a celestial event, it is a time for sowing seeds. Seeds hold a hidden potency. Suspended between dormancy and life, they are a reminder that growth requires patience, the right conditions and a belief in what has not yet emerged. Just as the seed must split open to reach the light, our consciousness is being called to crack open in these turbulent times.
Seed symbolism appears across spiritual traditions, cultures, dreams and art as a powerful image of beginnings and hidden potential. In Hindu and Buddhist practice, the bīja seed represents the origin of all things. In the story of Demeter and Persephone, the pomegranate seed holds the mystery of descent and return.
Ireland carries its own deep memory of this cycle. Forests once covered much of the island, revered as places of sanctuary and ceremony, protected under the ancient Brehon Law. The word Gael refers to the forest people, the wild ones of the woods. Our ancestors understood that life moves in cycles: the acorn becomes the tree, the tree flowers and fruits, and eventually falls returning to the soil to nourish what comes next.
Seeds are not only biological vessels. They are archives of cultural memory. Across the world, Indigenous communities and small farmers protect seeds as acts of resistance against agricultural homogenisation and biodiversity loss. Each seed carries generational knowledge — when to plant, how to cultivate, what to save.
“I got into the seed work as a result of a lot of pain and grief. So many of the things I’ve loved are being lost. Every time we plant a seed or a tree, we are planting it with hope and intention for a future.”
Vivien Sansour
Ecological movements increasingly speak of seed sovereignty as a political act. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault safeguards biodiversity against environmental collapse. Vandana Shiva’s Navdanya challenges corporate seed patents and defends farmers’ rights. In Palestine, heirloom seed preservation has become a form of cultural and agricultural resistance, led by seed guardian Vivien Sansour.
Planting the Future
As I study The Gene Keys with Richard Rudd, I have been contemplating how the seed mirrors the hidden potential within the shadow state. It holds a latent energy that, when nurtured with awareness, can unfold into flower and fruit, a living reflection of the cosmic cycle of transformation.
Recently we closed our beloved Moon Medicine community and as I reflected on our seven year journey, it became clear that we had been preparing the soil all along.
The seeds have been sown.
Every woman who has ever sat in Moon Medicine carries those seeds forward into their families, communities, activism, art, business, and healing work. The field continues. The medicine ripples outward.
Now it is time to water and activate what has already been planted.
Our shared moment in history carries both danger and evolutionary promise. We are living through what many describe as a global spiritual emergency, a threshold demanding inner transformation as much as outer action.
The tensions of this time invite us to cultivate awareness, resilience and creative responsibility. To notice the glimmers and to sow the seeds.
The question is not simply whether we can mediate these polarities, but what new life and wisdom might emerge if we do.
So I have begun to track the seeds of possibility in my own life and community:
– the slow return of evening light
– the scent of wild garlic along the river near my home
– the deer and sheep in the Wicklow mountains
– the elemental medicine of sauna and cold seawater
– RosalĂa and Björk embodying the power of epic collaboration at the BRIT Awards
– a conversation with Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor about allowing ourselves not to be okay
– meditating daily with a friend confined to a hotel room in a war-torn country
– remembering the line from Rainer Maria Rilke: no feeling is final
Small things, perhaps.
And yet, like seeds, they hold potency.
This equinox, may we sit with the opposites, honour the seeds within us and plant intentions that align our inner and outer worlds as a radical act of hope and renewal.
What seeds are you planting?
We now approach the Spring Equinox, a powerful solar festival on the Wheel of the Year and a pivotal moment in the turning of the seasons. The word equinox means equal night, marking the time when day and night stand in perfect equilibrium, with twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness. At this threshold, winter and summer, darkness and light, masculine and feminine meet and dance together.
Our ancestors were deeply attuned to this threshold moment and raised monuments aligned with the rising sun on the equinox. One such monument is Loughcrew (image above) or Sliabh na CaillĂ as Gaeilge, meaning "Mountain of the Witch".
In the Wheel of the Year, the Spring Equinox heralds the awakening of nature and the stirring of our own creative life force, our neart. As the earth quickens with new life, we too are invited to emerge from winter’s introspection with renewed energy, curiosity and possibility. This seasonal threshold offers us a moment to realign with the living rhythms of nature and to step forward with intention into the unfolding of this new cycle.
3 journal prompts to inspire you:
🌿 Since the last turning of the Wheel, how have you sensed your own journey of growth and transformation? What have you been paying attention to and what wisdom has emerged through this cycle?
🌿 What new energies are beginning to emerge now? How do you sense these subtle shifts unfolding within you and in the world around you?
🌿 What seeds are ready to push forth at this time? How might you tend and support their growth and awaken your neart, your creative life force, to bring them into being?
What's coming up at The Trailblazery:
As the Great Wheel turns, we are invited to pause and remember what we have travelled through together. We are excited to let you know what the future holds for our community here at The Trailblazery.
Scoil Scairte
Rewilding Summer School
July 28 - Aug 02
We have just announced our first-ever Scoil Scairte Rewilding Summer School, taking place July 28 – August 2 at the Common Knowledge Centre, Co. Clare.
For the first time since Scoil Scairte began in 2020, we will gather in person, on the land, together as a meitheal for a six-day cultural immersion in language, lineage and belonging.
If this calls to you, you can register your interest here to hear more and be the first to know when we open the doors. Those on the list will receive early access and priority booking for this founding gathering.
3 curated resources to mind your life and nourish your senses in the days ahead:
♪ Listen: For your ears
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How to Survive the End of the World is a podcast on surviving apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity. Adrienne cohosts this podcast with her sister Autumn Brown.
Originally recorded on IG live, Adrienne and her friend, the author, activist and artist Sonya Renee Taylor process being a survivor in these times. “Let it make us seeds of love, let us hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.”
✯ Watch: For your eyes
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Electrifying performance of “Berghain” by ROSALĂŤA feat. Björk Live at The BRIT Awards 2026. RosalĂa keeps redefining what performance can be. As she’s proven at time and again, she knows how to turn a live moment into something unforgettable. Her performance of “Berghain” with the stunning reveal of Björk appearing mid-set, followed by a sudden shift into a techno remix toward the end was nothing short of iconic.
♥ Cherish: For your heart
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The Gene Keys are a synthesis of ancient wisdom, drawing from the architecture of the I Ching and the system of Human Design and articulated by Richard Rudd. They offer a subtle map of consciousness, like an inner cartography. Within it lie our shadows: the patterns where we contract, the places where life energy knots and turns against itself. Yet the map does not end in darkness. Each shadow conceals a gift. When met with awareness, it begins to transform — revealing its higher expression, and in rare moments, flowering into what the Gene Keys call a Siddhi: an awakened capacity born through deep spiritual maturation.
Thank you for walking this path with us,
BeannachtaĂ,
Kathy and all at The Trailblazery
