The spring Equinox on March 21, when days are perfectly equal to nights. 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 in increased births) is called the Ostara and is scared to Eostre the Saxon lunar Goddess of fertility (from whence we get the word estrogen)
Symbols for Ostara: the egg (for fertility and reproduction) and hare (for rebirth and resurrection), the new moon, butterfly's, and cocoons, seads, and plants.
Herbs for Ostara: Daffodil, jonquils, woodruff, Violet, Gorse, Olive, peony, Iris, Narcissus and all spring flowers.
Incense for Ostara: jasmine, rose, strawberry, floral of any times.
Colours of Ostara: lemon yellow, pale green, pale pink, grass green, all pastels, Robin egg blue, Violet, and white.
Stones for Ostara: jaspar, aquamarine, rose quartz, and moonstone.
Celebrations: planting seads or starting a magickal herb garden.
Taking a long walk in nature, with no Intent other then reflecting on the Magick of nature
Planted of seeds & potted plants. Newly potted plant or take a seed and plant it within my cast circle.
Ringing bells
Lighting new fires at sunrise, either in the fire place or in the cauldron, or light a balefire (if outdoors). Ritually, a fire may be lit in a cauldron during (not before) the rite itself.
You may want to decorated your altar with a colorful bouquet of spring flowers.
Working on Magick gardens and practicing all forms of herbal work - Magickal, artistic, medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic.
Painting Ostara eggs with magickal symbols, pagan, or wiccan symbols, or imaging of spring. Paper machete eggs or wooden eggs are a great way to keep this activity cruelty free, you can keep the eggs for next year as decotion, or burn them in a fire or bury them in the ground as a offering to the Goddess.
