As my family and I walk through 2026, we are doing it with deeper intentions. I'm going to be laying out a monthly guide here. This is my personal guide for making 2026 the year of embodied mastery. I'd love for you to follow along if you'd like to be more intentional with your year.
We are in the home stretch now, Loves. We made it. We have moved out of the year of the wood snake and into the year of the fire horse energy. My family and I celebrate the New Year in March, we celebrate alongside the Earth. Stretching and awakening more fully into the year ahead.
In numerology, 2026 is both a 10 and 1. This is important into it's meaning. I feel such a hope and beautiful excitement for this new beginning.
Here’s why:
2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 10
1 + 0 = 1
What does that even mean?
10/1 Year is the full expression
1 Year is the reduced vibration
Energetically that means:
10 carries the essence of completion + divine initiation
It’s the end of a cycle and the doorway into something entirely new.
1 is new beginnings, sovereignty, leadership, identity, creation
2026 isn’t just a fresh start—it’s a fated reset. The kind where what begins is informed by everything you’ve survived, shed, and transformed. This is where our pain becomes the catalyst for our change. I think of March as a threshold. It's a crossing of sorts. March is truly the liminal gate, Loves.
It is always a bittersweet time of the year for me. March holds my parent's anniversary, my beloved partner's birthday, and it is the month that I lost both my Mawmaw and my Pawpaw. It's also a time of grand celebration as we are celebrating the New Year. March is the time for new things to be born.
March brings us a full moon on the 3rd. Some refer to it as the Blood moon. The Celtics refer to it as the Moon of Winds. The Chinese refer to it as the Sleepy Moon. The Dakota Sioux refer to it as the Worm Moon. This moon is when the energy of spring wriggles up to the surface, even if that surface is still yet covered in coolness. We also have a lunar eclipse happening on the evening of March 2nd, and continues early on March 3rd (according to UTC). Here in Alabama, we can anticipate seeing it in the early morning hours, before sunrise on the 3rd.
During totality, sunlight still reaches the moon, but it must pass through Earth's atmosphere first. That filters out shorter wavelengths (blues and greens) and bends reddish wavelengths into Earth's shadow, casting a copper/reddish glow on the lunar surface. Because this eclipse is occurring on a full moon near a significant seasonal marker, it's attracting both scientific and cultural interest. So cool, huh?
The Worm Moon is likely named for the earthworms that begin to appear around this time, but it could also refer to the beetle larvae that begin to emerge from the tree bark, making the trees seem as if they too are waking up. The beginning of Spring is often not pretty. It's damp and weird, and there needs to be worms and beetle larvae before there can be colorful blooms and soft sunshine breezes. I can close my eyes now and hear the sounds of the wind chimes that I have grown to love so deeply. The Worm Moon embraces the transition from death to life, from winter to spring, from dreaming to doing. Ugliness, therefore, must come before the beauty.
March brings the Spring Equinox on the 20th at 1:46pm (CST). This is the official beginning of Spring. Depending on where you live, it may still feel a bit like winter. I like to think of this time like a deep stretch, the kind that happens after we have been in a deep hibernation sort of sleep. The birds show up, pecking at the cold, wet earth snacking on the worms who are having a party softening the dirt. The Spring Equinox marks the moment in the solar year when the day and night are equal. We "spring forward" with daylight savings on March 8th. So, even though we might not feel the warmth of the sun by the time Spring arrives, we will most certainly begin to feel the light again. We may find that we have a bit more energy, a bit more focus for whatever tasks we are doing, and a bit more hope to accomplish the things we have been dreaming of all winter.
This was the original new year for the Romans, who named this month after Mars, the god of war, as this was when the soldiers began to emerge from the cold winter to put on their armor once more. The Sioux also counted the new year as the first new moon after the vernal equinox (Spring). It's a feeling of finally being able to shift from the dark half of the year, which is all about dreaming, spiritual work, and connecting with intuition, to the bright half, which is all about extroversion, focus on the body, getting things done (though hopefully through peace not war), and enjoying the magic of the natural world.
Old worlds celebrated the equinox as Ostara, a word that references an ancient Anglo-Saxxon goddess of the spring. Her name, refers to the dawn and the coming of the light, which likely references the Greek goddess of the dawn, Eos. This was a day to plant seeds, feast, and honor the goddess' symbols of fertility, including rabbits, who generally mate during this season, and eggs, an obvious symbol for new life and new birth - symbols that you'll tend to see associated with the modern Easter celebrations.
As for the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe, this lunation has a sweeter name: the Sugar Moon. This is because despite the often still cold temperatures, the sugar maples take some magical cue from the light near the equinox and begin to flow. Maple syrup feels like a delicious and energy-rich gift emerging from a long, cold winter season. It takes work to extract maple syrup from maple sap, but it is a golden nectar, an absolutely delicious initiation into a new season. I say Happy New Year and welcome to the life-giving, awkward, wriggly, ugly, and profoundly beautiful Worm Moon.
This energy is the reason that I have chosen March's intentions.
March feels like Containment of Power.
Theme: I hold what I now carry.
How I am setting the tone: fewer openings, stronger closures. Working towards safe boundaries.
I will be choosing my non-negotiables: energetic hygiene becomes a daily routine, no longer reactive. 2025 had me living in total chaos and fight or flight. I literally would only work towards energetic hygiene when "reacted to". This was preservation and survival for me. Now, my focus is going to be shifting into a creating and facilitating a daily routine of energetic hygiene. I now have the energy to create the space to do that.
Because I have lived most of my life out of a trauma response, it was often hard for me to listen to my intuition. So, hearing my intuition means knowing how my body speaks to me. This means not being reactive anymore, but being proactive. Not in an obsessive, compulsive, fearful sort of way - but in a way that honors my limits and "no's" as a sacred threshold.
Anchor question: Where am I leaking energy out of habit? What is wriggling to the surface for me now like the worms of the March moon?
March Affirmation: I allow the light, warmth, and magic to return to me at their own pace.
Wellness tips from a Clinical Herbalist:
Get outside more. Look for the signs and sounds that earth is coming back to life. Take some time to journal and mediate on desire right now. What have you been dreaming about all winter long? Slowly begin to incorporate fresh fruits and vegetables back into your diet. Maybe even incorporate some maple syrup into your meals. As you do, take the time to consider the sweetness that flows only in the late winter and early spring. You might even want to incorporate some maple syrup into your herbal tea. My favorite Spring tea is Great Faith Organics Sacred Ease Herbal Tea Blend. This is perfect for helping our minds and bodies ease into the sacredness that the new year holds for us.
With the extra energy we are feeling, you may find that more active movement is needed at this time. Such as more vigorous yoga, dance, walking, running or even cycling. Do whatever feels best for your body.
The Equinox is a time for planting seeds. I do not plant my garden until after Easter, but I am beginning to start seeds now. It's a good time to metaphorically start setting clear intentions around what we've been dreaming of all winter and begin to put some of those dreams into motion.
A beautiful herbal ally for this month would be horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
Energetic medicine: Structure, boundaries, integrity, supports hair loss and nail brittleness. Horsetail teaches strength through form - it is power held, not spilled.
I have a beautiful herbal supplement blend that includes horsetail.
I use candles in my journal process, meditation, and herbal practice. I am sharing with you the color candle that I will be using this month.
I have chosen light green.
Light green bridges earth awakening and fresh growth beautifully.
Light green is expansive.
Light green is slow becoming.