Use the freshness of the season to help you gain some clarity about your life and direction. ThereвЂ™s nothing like the great outdoors on a spring day to refresh the spirits, and a good walk somewhere wild and beautiful will get your blood pumping and encourage your energy to rise, as well as widen your perspective, putting a вЂspringвЂ™ in your step.ДЈ- Set your intentions. When theyвЂ™re done flowering you can plant them outside and theyвЂ™ll return to bring a dash of cheer year upon year.Дў- Spend some time in nature. Honour the turn of the season and brighten your home by bringing in some spring flowersвЂ¦pots of narcissus, daffodils, and irises can be found easily in the shops and really help to fill a home with new fresh energy. Here are some ways to embrace the transformation of the season and honour the spring equinox in your own wayвЂ¦.ДЎ- Bring in the spring. However, a little time and focus can maximise this time of growth to steer our lives further towards our souls path and potential. Life gathers a pace, and can carry us forward with its own momentum. Surviving examples such as Bloddeuwedd from the Welsh Mabinogion, who was said to be made of flowers, can also be called upon at this time to help us align with the spirit and beauty of the season.Дuring the spring equinox, the wheel of the year turns from the cold of winter to the ever warming days of spring into summer. While we have no definitive examples of a goddess from British Celtic tradition, it is likely that there were many versions of this type of goddess in Celtic lore. Eostre can be seen as one of many spring goddesses tasked with bringing back life and fertility to the world after the winter. Much is debated about her worship, but we know from the Christian Cleric Bede writing in the 8th Century that the Saxons used to honour her at this time. The spring equinox goes by many names, but one popular title is Eostre, after the Saxon goddess of the spring. Sighting the hares is a regular part of my spring pilgrimage to this exposed but beautiful ancient site. One of my favourite places to see the hares is at Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire, though they can be found all over the UK.

Mad march hares can be seen sprinting across the brown fields, and boxing off unwanted lovers as the mating season gets underway in earnest. Blossom will be erupted from every tree and hedgerow, and the forest floor begins to be carpeted with primroses and anemones, celandine and of course daffodils, which spring up everywhere along verges and gardens as well as the wild with equal ease and sunny glory. March wind and rain may still keep many of us indoors on some days, but if we venture out into the wild we will be surprised by what we encounter. This is a time of youthful exuberance in nature, when all of the green world seems to be springing back into life.

The spring equinox this year falls on the 20th of March. Danu Forest delves into Celtic spirituality, folklore and traditions, offering practical tips to transform the season and celebrate the spring equinox.

Spring 2016 equinox