Rituals for Ostara 🥚
The Spring Equinox is tomorrow!
The Wheel of the Year turns again, we welcome Aries season to put a fire under us. THANK GOD.
Here are some ideas to get you started on observing this Sabbat. You’ll notice many of them look familiar to Easter celebrations and that is because Easter rituals were taken from Spring Equinox celebrations LOL. Christians hate to know that little tidbit. They’re engaging in fertility/spring rituals whether they like it or not.
🌞 meditation: If sunny, sit outside facing the light and do a sensory scan of your body, allowing the light to slowly creep up through your being.
💧 charge your crystals and maybe set a jar of water out as well to use in workings
🧚♀️ leave an offering for earth/fae spirits if you work with any or to Mother Earth. These can include:
🌲 ethically sourced/found outdoor things,
🍞 bread
🥛 pouring milk onto the grass
🫖 leaving out tea (dandelion, chamomile, etc)
✍️ Write what you're leaving behind in the winter/learned from that time.
⭕️ An opening ritual of your choosing to embrace the new year. Astrologically, Aries season begins the Wheel of the Year.
🎴 Divination
💐 Decorating your home with spring flowers.
*Did you know floral divination is a practice? Check out an old post I did on various forms of divination to learn more here
🧹 Sweeping out old energies
💨 Smoke cleansing
🍊 Spring simmer pot
🚶♀️ Nature walks
🪴 Plot/begin gardening
This was a neat idea I found on Pinterest:
Animals Associated with Ostara:
Butterflies 🦋
Chicks 🐣
Hares/Rabbits 🐇
Robins 🐦 (we need a robin emoji omg)
Lambs 🐑
My own rabbits are feeling the spring energy…and escaping every chance they get 😂
Colors:
Robins egg blue
Gold
Light Green
Yellow
Pale Pink
Pastels
What are your plans for Ostara?
I love these because most of them are very low maintenance and can be utilized in a variety of creative ways that suit your style and needs. Personally, my plan is a sun meditation, a walk if I can fit it in, and redoing my altar for spring. I leave Thurs, but the weekend will be spent in the outdoors of East TN so I cannot wait to be in the Appalachian mountains again.
Housekeeping 🧹
♈️ Welcome Aries Season!! We have another New Moon Eclipse on 3/29 in Aries.
🌪️ Mercury Retrograde going on till April 7th jumping back and forth from Pisces to Aries. Venus RX is ongoing. We are seeing this play out very intensely in the news and protests happening around the world. It is essential to focus on grounding and plugging in where you can be most useful and disconnect from screen time when you cannot. Do not allow people (or our govts) flood the zone tactics to crash you out. Its what they want.
Gaza is being attacked again with no food coming in or out for 19 days. THEY NEED US. Help me support my friend and his family. $5 goes a long way. Share, put your effort where your mouth is.
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Events/Announcements 📣
MONTHLY JOURNALING CIRCLE IS RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 26TH!
It is also officially a year since I led my first one during last years Spring Equinox!
I host a monthly circle with curated prompts, sensory meditation, a brief astro transits report and collective reading. We took a winter hiatus and are back! Most likely moving to Mondays, but this date worked out best for my travel schedule right now. If you’d like to be added to the recurring invite you can do so here. Drop in as you need and as you can.