Spring Equinox 春分

What it marks

Day and night are equal. Solar longitude 0° — the origin point the other twenty-three terms are measured from. Balance is the whole theme: neither yin nor yang has the upper hand.

Traditionally favours

• balancing accounts
• negotiation
• partnerships
• anything needing fairness

A well-regarded window for agreements between equals, precisely because nothing is tilted.

These are the tradition’s tendencies, not guarantees — and a solar term describes a stretch of weeks, so for a specific day check today’s almanac, which reads the day’s own 宜 and 忌.