Coalescence
Spirit and matter coalesce in this March 2026 newsletter
Welcome to the March 2026 newsletter where I report on last weeks macrocosmic events and how they filter into our lives.
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Happenings
Shamanic Sundays group continues this Sunday 1st March. Times are 10am to 12.30pm - you can find out more and book a place here.
The Lencten group, which was introduced in last months newsletter, is up and running - I hope to repeat it 2027. In the mean time, there are various ideas/possibilities for further offerings in 2026 fizzing in the cauldron of my creations.
Coalescence
This newsletter features the third week of February which included a run of cosmological events. I intentionally marked each event, and describe two below, as I saw this week as the marker, or turning point, of the new . . . for me and for everyone else. Although I will refer to the astrology of the time I’m aware that many of you find that quite tricky to get your heads around so I am attempting to make it as simple as possible.
Beginning with the solar eclipse on 17th February. A solar eclipse is when the Moon passes across the face of the Sun, to a greater or lesser degree. A full solar eclipse is when the Moon completely covers the Sun and everyone gets their ‘eclipse’ glasses out to see it happen. This particular solar eclipse was partial to all but the penguins in Antarctica so no one got their glasses out. Although . . . . I decided that I might look at it through an app on my phone and this is what I saw just before the actual time of 12.01pm.
You can see a small dark crescent covering the lower rim of the Sun. I was outside at the time because I was gardening and had decided to cut the briar rose back. The cloud was thin but this made looking in the direction of the Sun possible . . . which was accompanied by a wide but indistinct halo too. As I gazed into the sky, with tools abandoned and awareness concentrated upward, Mrs Blackbird arrived, perching directly below the Sun on the briar rose. You can see the Sun’s halo in the photo below.
My immediate reaction was one of welcome. She is the most friendly of blackbirds and seems to have the same instinct as robins in that when I’m in the garden there is the possibility of turned earth with worms to snaffle.
My second reaction was amazement, that she should arrive at such a time, and because I had my phone with me I took a few photos (she’s certainly not camera shy). On a closeup I saw that the top of her head made a shadow on the lower circle of the Sun in exactly the same way as the screen shot I took on the app on my phone. I’ll repeat the closeup of that here (which is the title photo of the newsletter) so you don’t have to scroll up and down.
How does one account for that synchronicity? For me, it is an acknowledgment of intent, rather than being in the right place at the right time. I was part of the event in that I was observing it with intent, even though I couldn’t actually see it with my naked eye. Spiritual acknowledgement came with Mrs Blackbird, who enlivened the whole episode with her presence. If she hadn’t come and placed herself so exactly, the moment would merely have been another solar eclipse without very much to define it.
This is coalescence . . . a process whereby elements come together to from a whole. At the very time of the Sun and Moon coalescing so too do Mrs Blackbird and myself, in an alignment that reaches from our Earth right out into the heavens. I’d like to suggest that this is also an expression of what the ‘new’ work I am following looks like - where ‘spirit’ becomes apparent in ‘matter’.
Neptune and Saturn coalesce
Three days later there is the great Saturn Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries. In layman’s terms this is an astrological event that is very very rare, where two heavy weight planets in our solar system ‘coalesce’. Very simply Saturn and Neptune come together in the sky, from our point of view. Neptune represents dissolution and, in my view, spirit. Saturn represents structure. If you put structure and dissolution/spirit together we can read this as the collapse or the dissolving of structures. As an example, in the 1989 conjunction the Berlin Wall (structure) came down (collapse). Or we can read it as the restructuring of ‘spiritual being’ for humanity. This happened at 0°Aries which is the zodiacal sign of the ‘beginning’, or we could say a ‘step up’ on the spiral of (r)evolution.
On the day of the conjunction it felt to me as if the old sense of spirituality in the form of religions had been turned on its head. No longer the rulebook of religion, more the melding of spirit and matter. We are at the beginning of a new way of spirit . . . or the restructuring of faith and/or belief where matter and spirit are beginning to coalesce instead of being ‘separate’ ie God up there and us down here. In my view, God is in everything, including us - we are an expression of God.
Spiritual intent . . . or practising mysticism
Later on that same day I decided to mark the time of the conjunction, at 4.54pm, by going up to ‘the top’ where I often walk to look out over to the Black Mountains. I wanted to see if I could see a specific hill called the Skyrrid which lies close to the mountains and has captured my attention recently, for various reasons - I’ll return to this in a future newsletter.
As it turned out, I couldn’t see it. I knew where it was but I think it is simply too low in the landscape for it to be visible from that viewpoint. Nonetheless, I was in position for the event . . . looking west toward the lowering Sun hidden behind the clouds . . . I took a series of photos.
Of course, something of significance was bound to happen and as I watched, the light of the Sun in the clouds began to change from this
to this
to this
That great shaft of golden light was pointing at the Skyrrid - as if to suggest that I was on the right track or confirmation of my ‘spiritual intent’ - again, more in future newsletters. It’s an example of what I would call God Glow (see April 2023 Newsletter) or God Light - where heavenly sunbeams seem to elucidate our intentions. Certainly a coalescence!
On the way home I popped into the woods to see how the oak leaf was faring with the bracket fungus which I wrote about in the December 2025 newsletter ‘A melding of spirit and matter’.
When I originally found the oak leaf it was ‘embedded’ yet also very distinct. On the day of the conjunction it was barely visible with both it and the fungus having fused, or coalesced, into one form. An apt metaphor of events for me over the last three or four months.
Thank you for reading . . . Mandy
The photo of the year…so so beautiful.
Thank you Mandy
What an enjoyable and interesting post, thank you. The top of the blackbirds head representing the moon is just perfect❣️