Ostara

( Oh-star-ah) - Lesser Sabbat - Spring/Vernal Equinox, March 20-21st - when the Sun enters Ares

AKA:

Ostre, Oestre, Eostre, Rites of Spring, Eostra’s Day, Lady Day, First Day of Spring, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Alban Eiler, Bacchanalia

Animals/Mythical beings:

unicorn, merpeople, pegasus, rabbit/easter bunny, chicks, swallows, snakes

Gemstones:

rose quartz, moonstone, amethyst, aquamarine, bloodstone, red jasper

Incense/Oil:

african violet, lotus, jasmine, rose, magnolia, sage lavender, narcissus, ginger, broom, strawberry

Colors/Candles:

gold, light green, grass green, robin’s egg blue, lemon yellow, pale pink, anything pastel

Tools/Symbols/Decorations:

colored eggs, baskets, green clothes, shamrock, equilateral cross, butterfly, cocoons, sprouting plants; violets, lily, spring wildflowers, new clothes, lamb, hare/rabbit

Goddesses:

Eostre (Saxon Goddess of Fertility), Ostara (the German Goddess of Fertility) (Teutonic) Kore, Maiden, Isis, Astarte (Persia, GrecoRoman), Ishtar (Babylonian), Minerva (Roman), Youthful Goddesses. Faerie Queen, Lady of the Lake (Welsh-Cornish), the Green Goddess

Gods:

Hare, Green Man, Youthful Gods, Warrior Gods, Taliesin, Lord of the Greenwood (English), Dagda (Irish), Cernunnos (Greco-Celtic), Pan (Greek), Adonis (Greek)

Essence:

strength, birthing, completion, power, love, sexuality, embodiment of spirit, fertility, opening, beginning

Dynamics/Meaning:

the God comes of age, sexual union of the Lord & Lady, sprouting, greening, balance of light and dark

Purpose:

plant and animal fertility, sowing

Rituals/Magicks:

spellcrafting, invention, new growth, new projects, seed blessing

Customs:

wearing green, new clothes, celtic bird festival, egg baskets coloring eggs, collecting birds eggs, bird watching, egg hunts, starting new projects, spring planting

Foods:

light foods, fish, maple sugar candies, hot crossed buns, sweet breads, hard boiled eggs, honey cakes, seasonal fruits, milk punch, egg drinks

Herbs:

acorns, celandine, tansy,cinquefoil, crocus, daffodil, dogwood, Irish moss, ginger, honeysuckle, iris, jasmine, rose, hyssop, linden, strawberry, voilets

Element/Gender:

air/male(solar)

Threshold:

dawn

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Beltane
Litha
Lughnasadh
Mabon



SOURCE(S)
"Katydid"

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