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Spring Equinox March 20, 20226 9:46am CT


The Spring Equinox is a threshold moment—where light and dark stand in perfect balance, and the earth exhales into becoming.


In the language of horses and land, this is the season of soft awakenings and quiet power.


It is the time when the ground, once frozen and still, begins to loosen beneath hooves. The same fields that held winter’s silence now hum with possibility. You can feel it in a horse before you see it—the subtle lift in their step, the spark returning to their eye, the way their breath meets the morning air with renewed curiosity.


Spiritually, the Equinox is about balance before expansion.


Like a horse standing square and grounded before a ride, it asks us: to center, to listen, to come back into alignment.


Not rushing forward—but preparing with intention.


In many traditions, this time marked the true new year—not January, but now—when life actually begins again. Seeds are not just planted in soil, but in spirit. What we choose to grow now carries forward with the same steady rhythm as hoofbeats across open land.


There is wisdom in the herd this time of year.


Horses do not force the season.

They do not question the thaw.

They move with it.

They shed what is heavy.

They step into light without hesitation.

They trust the return of abundance.


And so can we.


The Spring Equinox invites you to release what winter asked you to hold… and to step forward—not in urgency, but in quiet knowing.


Like riding out across a Midwestern field just as the green begins to return— not everything is fully bloomed, but everything is alive.


This is your moment of becoming.

Balanced. Grounded. Ready.


The light is equal now.


Spring Equinox l ️03/20/026 9:46am CST

 
 
 

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