The young Sun God celebrates a sacred marriage with the young Maiden Goddess, who conceives. In nine months, she will return to the Great Mother. It is a time of great fertility, growth and animals just born. This time is sacred to Eostre, the Saxon Lunar Goddess of fertility.
Ostara celebrates the arrival of spring. The rebirth of nature represented ostara egg.
The God and Goddess back to share the joy of reigning together. Day and night are balanced to be of equal length, keeping the energy and fertility.
to reawaken living animals during the long winter sleep and everything starts to bloom. The spirits of the flowers and plants are very active in working to continue the cycle of life.
is the time of the first year's planting. The land is at a fertile and ready to give life to their children. Animals feel the call of nature and start looking for couples to procreate.
This magical moment invites us to inner rebirth. Ostara eggs symbolize rebirth. Represent the seeds within us will have to mature to bear fruit the following season.
When Spring arrives at the midpoint, night and day are in perfect balance, with increasing light and is celebrated on 21 March.
The Christian religion adopted these emblems for Easter Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon followed the equinox. FOOD
Ostara:
Nuts and seeds, vegetables and fresh seasonal fruits, cheese and herb bread. Tropical fruit wines or fruit juices. HERBS
Ostara:
All spring flowers, violets, iris, olive. RITUAL BATH
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Rose petals, carnation and jasmine.
RITUAL DECORATION:
is adorned with fragrant flowers of different colors are arranged in wicker baskets. Ostara eggs cooked either natural or chocolate wicker baskets also.
pale colors predominate over our altar. And a ceramic bunny or bear and fairies and nymphs.
To decorate the altar, we can use wild flowers. The pot should be filled with spring water (can be pure or mineral water sold for drinking), if possible, and if you like flower buds can be used as personal decoration. We place a small plant on the altar.
Ostara Incense:
Jasmine, rose, flower, benzoin and flowers (any kind).
STONES of Ostara:
Jasper.
OSTAR ACTIVITIES:
Plant seeds or magical gardens, and decorate with colored eggs with runes that symbolize what we want. We can defoliate
colorful flowers and throw the petals into the wind to ask for blessings and wishes to sow mustard seeds symbolize our faith in change and growth.
Some traditional practices are Ostara pick wildflowers, or simply chosen at random from the florist. They can use them later for decoration of the altar, and if desired, by a simple guess about them, understand our emotions and innermost thoughts.
is also important at this time of renewal of life, doing a walk through gardens, parks or forests. We must not do anything else, the walk itself should be a celebration, a sort of ritual for nature itself.
Other traditional activities include planting seeds, work in gardens, and all other forms of work with herbs, magic, culinary, cosmetic and artistic.
RITUAL OIL:
Essence of violet, strawberry and rose.
COLOR OF THE CANDLE:
Rosa for the girl who begins to blossom. Green
the God of the forests.
RITUAL PRAYER:
Pink Light the candle and give three times with your wand, then repeat the following sentence:
"Maiden who begin to flower shows lady Your fragrance in the fields of your love, my soul lights the flame of revival that began this spring, fertilize the land of my spirit that there is planted the seed of your love alive. "
Light the green candle and give three blows with his wand, then repeat the following sentence:
"Lord God of green forests, brings before me the promise of light and spring. Your animals awaken to the call of nature, that your seed is deposited as the fertile egg grows inside of the Goddess to make and renew all things. "
PRAYER FOR THE CONSECRATION OF EGGS:
After decorating the eggs must put the Goddess of spring and planted in the ground at the end of the party. To consecrate repeat the following sentence:
"Goddess of Spring: Aphrodite, Athena, Gaia, Hera, Vesta, Astarte, Ishtar, Venus and Minerva, awake to life and bring the seed of a new day. Loving and gentle
Nimue, Lady of the Lake which guards the mysteries of the soul in your soul, bless these sacred eggs to become the symbol of renamiciento of my faith. "
Ostara Ritual:
We place a small plant on the altar.
begin arranging the altar, and tracing the circle.
Then recite the Canticle of Blessing, and invoke the Goddess and God. Standing before the altar, we look at the plant while
"Great Goddess, you're released from prison cold winter.
reverdecimieto now is, when the fragrance of flowers floats in the breeze
. This is the beginning .
Life renews Your magic, Earth Goddess.
The God stretches and rises, eager in His youth
and teeming with the promise of summer. "
We played
plant, connecting with their energies, and through it, with all of Nature. We envision a trip from the center of our consciousness through our arm and fingers, penetrating into the ground, covering their stems and leaves, exploring their inner nature, feeling the miraculous process
Camino Earth as a friend,
Mother Goddess and Father God, that in me awakens
through this plant, the love of all living things.
Teach me to revere the Earth and all its treasures.
And never forget. "
meditate on the changing of the seasons, feeling how to increase energy in the earth around us
Blessings!
