🌱🌸Ostara🌸🌱

So, for those of you new to Wiccan holidays, Ostara is pretty much the Wiccan Easter, but better (obviously) that Easter. Ostara is the celebration of the beginning of the Vernal (spring) Equinox (that is, if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere) when spring reaches the midway point and both day and night stand in perfect balance. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and newborn life. 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. These same emblems of Easter were adopted by the Christian religion. “The theme of the conception of the Goddess was adapted as the Feast of the Annunciation, occurring on the alternative fixed calendar date of March 25 Old Lady Day, the earlier date of the equinox. Lady Day may also refer to other goddesses (such as Venus and Aphrodite), many of whom have festivals celebrated at this time.” ~Wicca Ways and Holidays.

💫Ostara💫 🌸Correspondences🌸

Colors🌈: pastel blue, pink, violet, green, yellow, orange, and white

Crystals💎: rose quarts, aquamarine, amethyst, jasper, moonstone

Flowers💐: tulips, daffodils, Easter Lillies

Herbs🌿: violet, honeysuckle, lemongrass, cleavers, catnip, dogwood, meadowsweet

Animals🐾: butterflies, chicks, bunnies, lambs, robins, pigs

Food🍽: cheese, eggs, salads, chocolate, hot cross buns, seeds, yogurt, jellybeans

Incense and Oils💨: jasmine, rose, sage, strawberry, lotus, ginger, lavender, African violet

Spells🔮: balance, fertility, new growth, marriage, rebirth, renewal, self-love, happiness

Gods⭐️: The Green Man, Oden, Pan, Thoth, Osiris

Goddesses🌟: Eostre, Aphrodite, Gaia, Venus

🌷Ostara Activities🌷

To celebrate, you don’t necessarily NEED to do any activities, but here are some of the things that I personally do to celebrate, as well as some things that others do to celebrate!

~Plant a faerie garden

~Plant some seeds!!

~Decorate eggs (preferably with natural dyes)

~Plan a summer garden!

~SPRING CLEANSING (both physically and metaphysically, as both are very important)

~Bake hot cross buns (I’ll add my own recipe)

~Create bird feeders and houses

~Oomancy (egg divination)

~Go on a nature walk, hike through the woods, or even just sit outside or in the forest/nature and connect with the new life forming around you!

~Bake egg related dishes and dishes with fresh greens!

~Set up an Ostara altar!

~Decorate for Ostara with eggs, flowers, pastels, etc.

~Wear pastels or floral garments, or do some nice pastel makeup if you can’t wear pastel/floral clothing

~Leave out candy offerings like jellybeans or chocolate

~Get some potted plants for your room/living space and speak to them; connecting with your plants will connect you to the spring happening around you!

~Ostara rituals! (Ritual baths are great, by the wayyyy)

~SELF LOVE SPELLS!!!!!!!