On February 4th I went on a journey, an adventure to pastures new. I set out across the Ocean to the land my Ancestors travelled to more than 60 years ago. I embarked on this journey not knowing where it would bring me, not knowing really what was pulling me to go, not knowing what to expect. As unknown as my journey was I did have resources to help guide me. I had my friend who I was going to visit. I had the internet to scroll through to get an idea of where I was going. I was entering the unknown with some knowledge of where I would land. My ancestors embarked on this journey of no return with only the courage of hope that they would find a better life. I reflected on this as I set off on my solo journey, to the land once known as the Land of Opportunity, where the opportunities are now limited.

My ancestors set out on a similar voyage over 60 years ago. They set out into the unknown territory of what was waiting for them. They did not know if they would ever set foot on Irish Soil again. They took the risk of going to a new country in the hope of finding a better life. The courage it took to go somewhere without any knowledge of where they were going made me reflect on how ancestral energy flows through my body. The courage, the dream, the hope, the vision of a better life made possible by taking the leap of faith, just like the Fool in the Tarot. This is the balance the Spring Equinox offers us. The balance between the unknown and the known. We naturally want to go towards the known as the unknown can be scary. The discomfort that the unknown brings, the uncertainty it brings yet we are living in discomfort and uncertainty on a daily basis with the turmoil of the world. How can we find comfort in the discomfort? How can we find certainty in the uncertainty? How can we bring the known into the unknown? These are questions I am reflecting on at this time as we cross the threshold into a new astrological year on Friday with the Spring Equinox.

Last year I took a course with Thomas Huebl called The Ancestral Healing Code. It was an in depth course into Ancestral connections and healing with our ancestors. Our ancestors are here to guide us and their wisdom resides in our bodies. The courage they had, the resilience they embodied along with the grief they did not know how to process. The course offered guidance on how we can help our ancestors heal as they help us heal in the process. A two way process of healing as we offer healing to them they offer healing to us. However one learning that stayed with me after the immersive course is that not all ancestors want to be healed, not all ancestors are here to help us, some want to be left in peace and we need to honour that. During the reflective meditative practices we were guided to ask permission from our ancestors before embarking on any ancestral healing. This reminded me of the balance of giving and receiving, of asking before assuming, of honouring before taking, the discernment of the wisdom in the heart, not just jumping in with both feet and assuming I know what’s best. Healing with the ancestors is a deep honouring of all our ancestors and connecting with the ones who would like to be with us through these times we find ourselves living through. We need to be mindful and respect those who want to rest in peace as we connect with those who want to guide us through. The balance of opposites at the time of the Spring Equinox as we leave the Winter, take the wisdom we embodied and enter the Spring ready for a new season.

I have felt deeply this past few weeks how courage lives in my body, the same courage my ancestors had all those years ago. It reminds me that we all have this courage. We all embody the resilience to get through challenging times. This knowledge helps me as we continue to live in uncertain times as the old world collapses to make space for the new. It is messy. It is uncomfortable. It is necessary. We cannot stay in our comfort zones anymore we have to embrace the change and trust that a better world is being built in the process. As with the Tower in the Tarot, we need the old structures to fall so that the foundations can be uncovered and we can see the Star, the Moon and the Sun (the next 3 cards in the Tarot). The foundations are strong but the structure built on lies and mistruths is crumbling, the world is crumbling around us, yet the earth, our true mother is holding us steady, that foundation is built on solid ground. Nature here on the land of Ireland, Nature across the Ocean on the land of America. Nature will be our grounding force in these challanging times as we remember to come back to ground and lean into this deeper ancestral wisdom. Alive in our bones, alive on the land and alive all over this big bold beautiful world we all live in. The connection through time and space, the cyclical process of life and nature, the reminder that no matter how dark and long the Winter is the Spring always arrives.

At this threshold as we embark on another Spring into the unknown future we can trust the known of Nature. As we find the steadiness on the Earth beneath our feet even as the shakiness of the world is out of our control we can control how we show up. Everyday I go on a walk in Nature. I connect with the natural world listening to the birds, seeing the changes on the branches as the buds start to open, welcoming the flowers already blossoming, the Daffodils, the Buttercups, the Primroses and the Dandelions. This is the choice I make in a world where others make choices that do not align with the vision I have of the future. I choose to connect with the land, the same land my ancestors connected with and remember as I make informed choices I can show up fully in a World on fire and be the change I want to see in the World. We are the ones we have been waiting for. The choices we make today will inform the world of tomorrow. How do you choose to end this astrological year as we begin a new year at the Spring Equinox? How will you find balance in the times we are going through?