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| Ah, Spring!!! Sweet, delicious Spring!! What a glorious time, what a wonderful feeling! After the long cold hours of the Dark, how welcome tender, warm Spring is! It is time for the Goddess. who has recently thrown off the cloak of Cronehood, to don the raiment of the Maiden who now yearns for Motherhood. The Spring Maiden who waits in anxious anticipation for her young son/lover to mature. The fire in her blood burns and drives her forward. Her growing fertility overspills and covers the earth. The earth becomes verdant, creating a beautiful, flower-filled bower that will serve as the bridal bed when the Lord and Lady heed the compulsion of the Wheel and fulfill (as they must) their destiny. We, too, feel the pull of the Wheel. We, too, burn with the urge to procreate. Sexual desires grow and we too have the urge to mate, to plant and nurture, to continue our blood-lines. This is a necessary consequence of our physical lives. For life to continue, that life must reproduce. This is the true magick of Spring - the promise of continuation striving toward fulfillment. The undeniable urge to join with another drives us onward, fueling the mechanism that turns the Wheel - the Wheel of the Year, the Wheel of Destiny. This energy that seems to be written into our very essence lights the fires of inspiration within our souls. This energy is known as a major contributor to art, music, literature. It makes us superb innovators, spawning all manner of invention. It fires not only the imagination but the intuition as well. Don�t lovers always know what the other is thinking or going to do? Sexual energy is a very powerful, magickal tool. It is a very personal energy - one with which we are very familiar. Since we have such intimate contact with this energy and it is so easily at our disposal, we are able with the proper safeguards and intention to utilize this potent force to work our will. Scores of animals give birth at this time, flowers begin to bloom, trees who have spent the cold with bare limbs begin to deck their branches with tender shoots of green. And very soon now, a precious new young Lord will be conceived. The Wheel is turning as it always has and forever will. Honor the Lady at this time with memories of the sweet pain of sexual yearnings still unfulfilled. Honor the renewal of the earth by preparing your garden and yard for planting. Revel in gorgeous spring colors to remind yourself of the renewal taking place all around you. Surround yourself and fill your home and place on your altar, all kinds of fertility symbols - eggs, hares, etc. Life will continue. Life will find a way. Birth, death and rebirth. From the devastation of death and destruction new life is born. And the Wheel turns. |
| Ostara By: Pam Parker |