Nowruz 2024

Nowruz 2024 is the exact instant spring returns, the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading north and day and night stand equal. In Tehran, the birthplace of this tradition, it broke at 06:38 on 20 March. Nowruz means "new day", and for over three thousand years, since its roots in Zoroastrian Persia, it has been kept across Western and Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and beyond, with fire and water, dancing, poetry, gifts, and the symbolic table. What a chart for a new year. The Sun rises in Aries, nature's own first sign, the pioneer among pioneers; this is the ace of the zodiac, the throne where all beginnings are exalted, so the year itself is cast as a self-starter that gets up on the saddle no matter what. Aries also rises on the horizon, doubling that fresh, go-getting, Martian courage that says "follow me, let us do it". The Moon sits in fiery Leo in the fifth house, the house of creativity, romance, children, and everything we make with love: a big open heart, the born performer, imagination reigning like a queen lion. Nowruz is spring itself learning to be reborn, radiant and brave.