A Brave Aries Season

Aries Season. Vernal Equinox. Beginnings. All unlike any other astrological new year or spring season we’ve seen in our lifetime.

I am departing from my normal love letter to Aries to draw on some mythology. My son and I have been reading from #edithhamilton ‘s “Greek Mythology.” In our odd, semi-structured chaos of new days, the stories, though far too grown up in language for him, have provided us some solace, an escape from the unknown of our new reality.

In Greek mythology, the creature Krios Chrysomallus was the flying, golden- fleeced ram. This mythical beast was born to the sea-god Poseidon and the nymph Theophane. He secured his place in the heavens as a constellation when he was asked by the cloud nymph Nephele to save her children Phrixos and Helle just as they were about to be sacrificed to the gods.

The heroic ram carried Phrixos all the way to the far end of the Black Sea and upon their arrival, he offered himself in the place of Nephele’s children. He asked Phrixos to lay his beautiful Golden Fleece in the grove of Ares. The gods then placed his image in the sky, in the form of stars, as the constellation Aries, and the beautiful fleece later became the goal of the quest embarked upon by Jason and the Argonauts.

If there is but a singular descriptor for the Aries spirit and what we are being called upon to embody, it is BRAVERY. We are creating a beginning, and how it unfolds will be tied into the bravery of Aries season.

The stars align for all of us.