Happy Ostara, Spring Equinox, ritual and ceremonial instructions for the Real Natural New year March 19 @ 8:49 pm PDT 11:49 pm EDT/ March 20 @ 3:49 pm GMT
The Vernal Equinox is one of the most powerful days of the year as the balance of Day and Night and the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere is celebrated.
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English: “Ostara” (1901) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess Ä’ostre/*Ostara flies through the heavens surrounded by Roman-inspired putti, beams of light, and animals. Germanic peoples look up at the goddess from the realm below. |
Celebrated as OSTARA by Algo-Saxon and Germanic tribes as a celebration of the First day of spring. The Green Man who fertilizes the Goddess is resurrected and the symbols which are associate with Easter, rabbits, and eggs are basic symbols of fertility. An American Witch and poet named Aiden Kelly who was looking for sabbat names more interesting than Spring Equinox ended up adopting Ostara for the Vernal {spring} Equinox and we’ve been using it for over 40 years now.
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