March: Listening for Spring
March Journal from the Electric Lady Florals Studio
Before the season changes, the flowers begin to whisper.
March always feels like standing in a doorway between seasons. Winter still lingers in the cool air, but the light has begun to change. At the flower market, the first true signs of spring are quietly appearing, tulips stretching upward, delicate butterfly ranunculus catching the light, and the bright faces of daffodils returning after the long winter months.
This time of year carries a particular energy of transition. The earth begins to wake, the astrological year prepares to turn, and something within us also begins to stir.
Last week, under the full moon eclipse, I gathered with a circle of women for an evening of reflection at Eleventh Hour Art during The Art of Healing, hosted by my friends Deena & Linsey from Surround Society. The night held a particular intensity, a kind of energetic shaking that felt both grounding and electric at the same time.
As we sat together in reflection, I could feel a vibration moving through the room. It was as if something old was loosening its hold so that something lighter could emerge.
Eclipses have a way of doing that, they shift us!
Moments like these remind me how interconnected my creative work has become with the symbolic languages that guide it: flowers, astrology, and tarot. Each one speaks to cycles of transformation.
Tarot mirrors the archetypal stories we move through in our lives.
Astrology maps the rhythms of the cosmos.
Flowers embody the quiet wisdom of the earth.
A flower opens when conditions are right.
A tarot card appears when we need a message.
A planetary shift arrives to move us forward.
In my floral practice, I often feel like I’m working within these same patterns, arranging materials that are alive, temporary, and expressive of a moment in time. A bouquet becomes a small landscape of a season.
Pisces Astro Bouquet
International Women’s Month
I recently attended a book event at Rachel Comey’s Smith Street location. The evening brought together a room full of artists, writers, and creative thinkers sharing stories about their work and their lives. I had the pleasure of meeting painter Madeline Donahue, whose work explores the layered experience of motherhood and identity with honesty and depth. I also met writer Amil Niazi, whose memoir Life After Ambition was discussed that evening. Her reflections on motherhood and ambition added another thoughtful dimension to the conversation.
Listening to artists speak about their process and the stories behind their work always reminds me how many different forms creativity can take.
Walking home that night, I kept thinking about the energy that emerges when women gather together in a room like that. When artists support and witness one another’s work, a quiet momentum begins to build.
Madeline’s design for Amil’s book cover stayed with me. Its colors and spirit subtly inspired the florals I created this month for the Rachel Comey Smith Street window.
In many ways, flowers live in that same space for me. They are another form of expression, another way of translating feeling into something visual and alive.
Creativity is not separate from life, it is life!
Rachel Comey Smith Street florals inspired by Madeline Donahue art
Spring Equinox fast approaching
As we move through March, I can feel the approach of the Spring Equinox, the moment in the seasonal calendar when day and night briefly come into balance before the light begins to stretch longer again. The equinox always feels like a quiet turning point.
Winter asks us to slow down and reflect, but the equinox signals movement. The earth begins to wake and reach toward the sun once again.
In the studio this month I’ve been working with tulips, butterfly ranunculus, fern heads, pincushion protea, anemones, and daffodils, each one carrying its own expression of early spring.
Tulips feel alive in the most literal sense. Even after they are cut, their stems continue to grow and bend toward the light, subtly shifting the shape of an arrangement from day to day.
Butterfly ranunculus feel almost weightless, their delicate petals catching the light like small wings opening.
The curled fern heads are one of my favorite early signs of the season, spiraling slowly outward as if they are remembering how to grow again.
Pincushion protea bring a spark of energy, their vibrant structures like small suns tucked among softer blooms.
Anemones draw you inward with their deep centers, like tiny night skies surrounded by petals.
And daffodils, with their bright yellow faces, always feel like the clearest announcement that winter is ending.
Flowers are often the first to tell us that something is changing.
This seasonal shift is mirrored in the sky as well. As March unfolds, we move through the closing days of Pisces season, the final sign of the zodiac, associated with intuition, imagination, and reflection. Soon we step into Aries season, which marks the beginning of the astrological year and brings a shift toward fire, movement, and new beginnings. It is the year of the fire horse, this should be a spectacular Aries season!
This transition has been inspiring the Astro Bouquets I’ve been creating, arrangements that explore the relationship between flowers and the symbolic language of the zodiac.
The Pisces bouquet reflects the dreamy, intuitive nature of water, incorporating soft, flowing flowers like butterfly ranunculus and anemones. It feels gentle and poetic, like the quiet end of a long story before the next chapter begins.
The Aries bouquet celebrates the bold spark of the astrological new year with vibrant, electric-colored flowers such as tulips and pincushion protea. It carries a feeling of emergence, the first flame of spring and the courage to begin again.
As the Spring Equinox draws closer, I keep returning to the idea of balance, the meeting point between rest and renewal, darkness and light.
The eclipse reminded me that transformation rarely happens all at once. It arrives in subtle shifts, quiet conversations, and gatherings that stay with us long after the evening ends.
Flower of the Month — Butterfly Ranunculus
One of the flowers that always signals the arrival of early spring for me is the butterfly ranunculus. Their delicate, translucent petals catch the light in a way that almost makes them appear to glow. Unlike the dense layers of traditional ranunculus, these blooms feel lighter and more airy, opening gently as the days grow longer.
In many ways they embody the energy of early spring, soft, hopeful, and quietly unfolding.
I like to use these beauties in all of my arrangements. They make the arrangements feel light, airy, whimsical, with a pisces vibe.
A Seasonal Invitation
As the Spring Equinox approaches and the light slowly returns, you might take a moment to notice the first signs of the season around you, a cluster of daffodils on a street corner, the way tulips lean toward the sun, or the soft unfurling of new leaves.
Spring rarely arrives all at once. It appears gradually, one quiet signal at a time.
Take notice on your daily outings, snap photos, smell the beautiful scents in the air.
Spring is my favorite time of year, so exciting to watch all the blooms happen!
Aries Astro Bouquet
