Ostara
Spring Equinox falls around March 21st., also called Ostara, Eostre and Lady Day. It is a time when light & dark are in balance, but the light is conquring the darkness. Now the light has grown in strength & thus is the time to celebreate the balance in all things, male & female, light and dark, death and life, & also the balance withing ourselves. The Spring Equinox is the time when the Greek Goddess Persephone reamerges from the underworld and in doing so her Mother Demeter stops mourning her absence and starts the beginning of Spring.
Lore -
A traditional Vernal Equinox pastime; go to a field and randomly collect wildflowers. Be sure you thank the flowers for their sacrifice before picking them. Then bring them home and divine their magickal meanings by the use of books, your intuition, a pendulum or whatever other means. The flowers you have chosen, reveal you inner thoughts and emotions.
It is important at this time of renewed life to plan a walk through gardens, a park, woodlands, forest or some other green place. This is not simply exercise, and you should be on no other mission. It isn't even justan appreciation of nature, but makes your walk a celebration or ritual of nature itself.
Other traditional activites include planting seeds, working on magickal gardens & practicing all forms of herb work, whether magickal, medicinal, cosmetic, culinary or artistic.
Colors -
Green, Yellow, Pink and all pastels.
Symbols -
Eggs, New Moon, Butterflies
Deities -
Youthful and Virgile God and Goddess
Stones -
Aquamarine, Rose Quartz, Moonstone
Ritual Oils -
Lotus, Ginger & Magnolia
Food -
Foods in tune with this day include those made of seeds, such as sunflower, pumpkin, sesame seeds and pine nuts. Sprouts are equally appropriate as are leafy green vegetables. Flower dishes such as stuffed naturtiums or carnation cupcakes also find their place here.
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