Spring Signs: Aries, Taurus, & Gemini
Allow yourself to imagine beyond the words on this screen and come to the dreamtime of your imagination.
Visualize with me – spring.
The promise of tree branches dotted with buds, the excitement of the first flower, the peace found when gazing at a lush scene of flower bushes, bright green baby leaves, freshly unfurled. Bees in a frenzy, moving from one nectar station to the next…
Images of spring invoke a sense of renewal, rejuvenation, excitement even. Our souls, calloused over by winter, are given an invitation to unfurl themselves. Our skin, protected by parkas and scarves, begins to feel the sweet sense of building sunlight, of a gentler breeze.
As with all seasons, spring is laden with symbolism and story that only emulates its physical arrival. Birth and new beginnings in the form of flowers; re-emergence in the form of warmer weather.
No day is without its dynamism, and the same is so with the seasons. Yes – spring is the season associated with new beginnings, births, and flowers, but how can we understand this season as it evolves? How can we further understand spring as a dynamic process, rather than an unchanging time period with a fixed start and end?
This is an exploration of the Spirit of spring.
And how better to understand spring than to view the season through the archetypes of the zodiac signs the sun moves through? Aries, Taurus, and Gemini – the first three signs of the zodiac. The three signs that occupy springtime.
aries: flower buds
Element: Fire
Modality: Cardinal
March 20 – April 19
Beginning of spring
Aries. The first sign of the zodiac wheel. The baby of the zodiac. The beginning.
All blooms must have a beginning.
Aries is the fresh start, the first flame, the spark in a room of darkness. The unfettered, unfiltered experience of base consciousness coming into form. First form.
Aries embodies both archetypes of the warrior and the eternal child. Characteristic of all fire signs, Aries is bold, fast moving, solely and wholly focused around the self. If they don’t tend to their flame first, no one else will. The fire won’t catch. And within the archetype of the warrior comes the immense energy of potential.
To be a battering ram – those who embody a single flame must fight for what they need in order to survive. They must create it.
During those first few moments of spring, we feel an immense amount of energy. Of charge. Of dynamism returning to ourselves. We feel cradled in the potential of a flower before blooming – the energy contained within a bud about to burst. That is Aries energy. That is the first signs of spring.
taurus: full blooms
Element: Earth
Modality: Fixed
April 20 – May 20
Mid-spring
Naturally, the next step from a flower bud is a full bloom.
Here, we find the Taurus archetype.
As the second sign of the zodiac wheel, Taurus is still mostly engaged with themes surrounding the personal self – pleasure, values, stability, resources. A recognition of what we have, what we create with it, and how we come to enjoy it.
And with Taurus, there’s a large focus on how we come to enjoy that which we have. That which we have created.
The Aries baby has grown – enough. It is able to identify what it has and what it likes. And from that, creates values based on their experiences.
Emphasis on values.
Ruled by Venus, Taurus is a sign that seeks the simple pleasures in life. That which we find pleasureful is defined by our values. During springtime, blooming flowers take the emblematic, arching symbol to what springtime is, and how we come to recognize its arrival into our life again. Collectively, it is what we have culturally placed importance onto – as being the symbol for spring.
Taurus seeks to create luxury and pleasure for the sake of serenity. The excitement of Aries has long passed – Taurus is keen on finding a field of flowers to lounge in. A field of flowers to gaze upon. A field of flowers to adorn their own hair and feel like a full bloom themselves.
gemini: pollination
Element: Air
Modality: Mutable
May 21 – June 21
Late spring
Ah, Gemini. The third sign of the zodiac, the mutable sign of spring, the transition from one season into another.
And it’s exactly within this transition, this mutability, this exchange, that we find the archetypes of Gemini.
Gemini is the twins. Or rather – Gemini are the twins. The representation of two focal points and the transmission between two. Gemini is akin to a multi-faceted quartz – one being multiplied into many by perception and angle.
A mercurial being, Gemini grows when immersed in situations that require thought expansion, exploration of multiple forms of perception, and communication of information. Gemini craves mental stimulation, quick conveyance, the simulated experience of living multiple lives by being able to dive into another person’s POV.
In spring, this is pollination.
Pollinators are the many working for one; the multi-faceted crystal being multiplied into many. Ever seen a Gemini scrolling through their phone tabs, or talking with a room full of people? Like a bee drunk off nectar, buzzing happily from one flower to the next.
The archetype of Gemini, just like pollination, is necessary within the experience of spring and the evolution of the signs. This very transmission is what keeps life going.
& cycling again.
No cycle stands alone.
From spring, we lean into summer, tumble into fall, and once again find ourselves at winter.
Only to begin again.
And through this cycle of spring’s new beginnings, full bodied summer, autumnal endings, and the resting power of winter, we find ourselves amidst several different cycles of beginnings and endings, evolutions and experiences. It’s the dance of life, to hold ourself to a structure and timeline, only to find the erratic pleasure of chaos and dissonance creating its own timeline.
And that’s kind of the beauty of working with these structures – the tangible seasons and the mental study of astrology – having a framework to rest upon. And having a framework to deviate from.
But within all cycles, structured or not… it’s always sweet to find a new beginning.
Happy springtime loves <3 May the spirit of spring bless you with ample moments for beginnings, dreamings, and re-connections.