2020 Vernal Equinox timing

Spring Equinox 2020

The Vernal (Northward) Equinox, Start of Spring, Aries Ingress

For the ritually oriented and the curious, here are 2020 Spring Equinox times for Greenwich and the USA.

March 20, 2020
03:49:31 AM UT/GMT
March 19, 2020
11:49:31 PM EDT +4
10:49:31 PM CDT +5
09:49:31 PM MDT +6
08:49:31 PM PDT +7
05:49:31 PM AHST +10:00:00

[Daylight Saving Time, already in effect in the United States, starts in Great Britain and most of Europe on March 29, 2020. For a complete overview go here https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/events.html]

Eostre by AngiandSilas

March 19-20 brings the Vernal Equinox, also known as Ostara, or Eostre, or Eastre, named for the Germanic Goddess of spring and dawn. When the Sun's path along the Ecliptic (where the Signs or Zodiac are aligned with solstices and equinoxes) crosses the Celestial Equator from the South to the North we have the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring, zero degrees of Aries. The longer nights of the winter season are now in equal balance with daylight. From this point, the length of daylight grows.

All points in the eight-fold year (defined by the astronomical measure of solstices, equinoxes, and the midpoints between those) are marked by human celebrations, holidays, and holy days. Those “coincidental” celebrations are not accidental but knowingly or circumstantially correspond to the astronomical. There are holy days with the Jewish and Christian calendars (also with Chinese, Hindu, and other systems of reckoning) that combine New and Full Moons with solstices and equinoxes. For example, the Full Moon after the Spring (Vernal) Equinox is Passover. The Sunday following that Full Moon is Easter (the preceding Friday is Good).

 Ostara by Johannes Gehrts

The Vernal Equinox is one of two points of the Zodiac that astrologers use for a measure, some prefer to use the Winter Solstice as a starting point for the “year” to follow. Those who chart the Vernal Equinox (Aries Ingress), derive information about at least three, and at most twelve months following. Some mundane astrologers will chart all four, Solstices and Equinoxes, and utilize those charts for a sense of the three months that follow. For those who favor it, the chart for the first day of Spring is said to be in effect for the year until the next Vernal Equinox. It is considered especially strong until the Summer Solstice chart "comes in" in June.

It is good to remember that the Solstices and Equinoxes are the markers for the Zodiac itself (not the constellations with same or similar names).

"Aries is the principle of Cosmic Individuality, which is the truth that everything of which we can speak or even think is a unity and possesses the rights of a unity.  This, in a sense, may also be called Cosmic Strength.  It gives rise to the virtue of Courage, and as its counterpart it has the delusion of egotism, or the belief that the rights of the individual are his only concern, the "struggle for existence" being deemed a permanent fact, beyond which it is not necessary to look.  This produces such faults as arrogance."

- The Zodiac And The Soul, C. E. O. Carter (1887-1968)

Happy Solstice!