03/15/2026
Come join me for The Equinox Celebration at Tomorrow’s Wind, Mel Edward’s powerful stainless steel sculpture on Friday, March 20, at 10:46 AM at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem.
Participants are invited to bring any prayer, thought, or other dedication written or painted on paper. These offerings for the observation of the Spring Equinox will be placed on hot charcoals for their intent and energies to be released through their eruption into flame. Please arrive by 10 to 10:15 - early enough to bring your evocation/prayer to present your offering at the moment the Sun enters 0º Aries, 10:46 AM.
Tomorrow’s Wind is Mel Edward’s unique stainless steel sculpture that was installed on 7/27/95 at Thomas Jefferson Park located at 1st Avenue, and 113th Street. Take the #6 train to 110th Street, walk 3 blocks east to 1st Avenue, then walk to 113th Street, then walk one short block inside the park. The brightly shining Tomorrow’s Wind, approximately 8’x10’, has a large disk that is meant to reflect the Sun as it makes its daily passage across the sky.
My first Equinox Celebration experience was in 1970 around a bon fire, and I’ve shared and conducted Equinox Celebrations with some form of Fire - from bon fires to small offerings on indoor altars annually since then.
For more information, and if you plan to attend, please notify me by direct message to Amir Bey.
This year’s Equinox chart shows that this week leading up to the Equinox and into April from the New Moons of this Wednesday the 18th through the following New Moon on April 17th, has a Stellium - a concentration of 3 or more planets - in Aries of up to 5-6 planets in the sign, including Mars its ruler, suggesting this period is one of initiation and demarcation. Mars is also associated with war, strife, and yes, the world is hemorrhaging through a stormy Mars-like cycle! A beginning and ending that will involve forceful application of purpose and energies. Many of these planets will eventually move into stabilizing Ta**us, so this cycle will not only generate many possibilities, but find fertile reception to manifest the promise of Aries’ seed.
Mercury in 8º Pisces 29’ is Stationary going direct 5 hours later, as it conjoins the North Node in the same degree. This indicates that unseen channels can open, allowing for transcendental opportunities and the need for clarification of the eternal question “Who are we, what are we here for, where are we going?” asked by the Chicago poet Amus Moore, in his Poem for the Hip Men, Black Saint Records.
While this chart is done for New York City, the important thing is the planetary structure, which will be the same all across the planet, but uniquely placed for each location. Pluto in 5º Aquarius 00’ is the Leading Planet of a Bowl Pattern, making Pluto, which shares some qualities with Mars, significantly placed as it changes from a Leading Planet to a Singleton over the next few months.
April 26 Uranus will enter Gemini, leaving Ta**us for the last time until around 2110 (so don’t stay up late for it!). This is one planet/sign combination that I like: it combines the innovation of Uranus with the curiosity of Gemini, extra-perceptive experiences from unique communiques. Many of the so-called radicals of the 60s had this placement, and when the Uranus/Pluto conjunction squared their collective Uranuses, they embarked on unprecedented journeys. I see some of Uranus in Gemini’s motivations in astrologer Anthony Lewis’s writings and information dispersals.
Am I saying that we are in for some “revolutionary” times with Uranus and Pluto trine in Air signs during the next two years? Yes, the networking that will result from this combination echoes their last trine in these signs during the French “Transformation”, the Haitian Revolution, and the American “Revolution”. Upheavals to established orders born from social ideas whose origins were born during that time. Very bloody, destructive, with new unalterable directions as a result.
Finally, let us not overlook Jupiter in Cancer’s St.-Direct conjunction with the star Septdet, the Egyptian harbinger of the Nile’s flooding. The star, commonly known as Sirius, had a cycle that corresponded with the Nile River’s return that occurred near the Summer Solstice. Hmm…Jupiter and Sepdet: suggestive of endowment and the potential release of nourishing resources. It has a tight applying trine with Mars of the Equinox chart, furthering the idea of a flood, or expansive currents.
For the US, the Equinox 13º Gemini 24’ Ascendant falls at the Mars/Uranus 8º/20º Gemini midpoint at 10º Gemini 55’. Quite a symbol of challenge! If those energies are directed with meaningful purpose, they could have dynamic results. If un-guided, intermittent explosions and disruptions. “Who are we, what are we here for, where are we going?”
