❂ Swiftly approaching ~~~

✬✭✮✯✰Ostara/Spring Equinox✬✭✮✯✰

✬✭✮✯✰ Tuesday, March 20th ✬✭✮✯✰

The Spring Equinox marks the first day of spring. It is the time when the God grows to maturity. The night and day are equal, therefore it is a time of balance when our lives can be brought into harmony. It is a time of beginnings of action.

As Spring dawns in the northern hemisphere, the cycle of birth, growth, fading, death enters the "birth" stage - we celebrate the emergence from winter and turn our face to the sun as the days become longer than the nights. Plants begin to bloom, new shoots burst forth from the earth, animals begin their bearing cycle, and the goddess' relationship with the earth's fruitfulness is witnessed in front of our eyes.

Spring is a time when Persephone returns from the underworld, Demeter's happiness to see her daughter spills over so that crops flourish, and Ishtar's fertile energy nourishes the earth and helps the nature prosper.

But most of all, it is a time to remember Ostara - the maiden, in German mythology, celebrated during the Spring Equinox when night and day are equal and balanced.

Just as light and dark are equal; it is a time when all the elements within us must be brought into a new harmony. This is a time for new beginnings, of action and of tending ritual gardens.

♆ Dairy, nuts, pumpkin, sunflower, pine, flower, sprout;

Daffodil, jonquils, woodruff, violet, gorse, olive, peony, iris, narcissus;

Jasmine, rose, strawberry;

Carnelian, coral, agate, brown jaspar (orange stones), amethyst, aquamarine, bloodstone, red jasper.

Let's have a pick-a-nick, yes?? Weather permitting of course; either way a feast with pumpkin cakes and strawberry ale? Flowers in our hair, glitter on our eyelashes, velvet cloth spread out on a grass or a tabletop. Candles melted onto tin containers packed lovingly to go for a spot under a tree, in a field, by a stream. O take me away from the city or at least hide me away somewhere inside it where it feels sacred and joyful!