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About Ostara

As Spring reaches its midpoint, night and day stand in perfect balance, with light on the increase. The young Sun God now celebrates a hierogamy (sacred marriage) with the young Maiden Goddess, who conceives. In nine months, she will again become the Great Mother. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and newborn animals.

The next full moon (a time of increased births) is called the Ostara and is sacred to Eostre the Saxon Lunar Goddess of fertility (from whence we get the word estrogen, whose two symbols were the egg and the rabbit.

Leafy green vegetables, Dairy foods, Nuts such as Pumpkin, Sunflower and Pine. Flower Dishes and Sprouts.

Daffodil, Jonquils, Woodruff, Violet, Gorse, Olive, Peony, Iris, Narcissus and all spring flowers.

Jasmine, Rose, Strawberry, Floral of any type

Ostara Incense Recipe
2 parts Frankincense
1 part Benzoin
1 part Dragon's Blood
1/2 part Nutmeg
1/2 part Violet flowers
1/2 part Orange Peel
1/2 part Rose petals

Jasper

Special Activities

- Wear Green Clothing.

- Have a breakfast of buns, ham and eggs. Save the shells. Throw the shells into your garden or anywhere outside and say: "For faerie, for flowers, for herbs in bowers, the shells pass fertility with springtime showers."

- Color hard boiled eggs with dye or paint. Empower one of a specific color of a goal you wish to obtain. Eat the egg and feel yourself being blessed.

- Make hot cross buns to honor the union of the Earth and the Sun for Spring.

- Planting seeds or starting Magickal Herb Garden

- Taking long walks in nature with no intent other than reflecting on the Magick of nature, our Great Mother and her bounty.