Ostara : Ways To Celebrate
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Plant Seeds
And then the old standby: planting seeds on Ostara. If you live in an area that’s still in danger of frost, just plant them in a pot on a windowsill. Bless them first, perhaps by holding them in sunlight (if it’s a sunny day) and empowering them with your most glorious intentions for the coming season and year.
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Give Yourself a Springtime Spiritual Cleansing
Winter often stagnates energy and transforms it into negativity. This manifests itself as depression for some, or you may feel down, chaotic or emotionally charged. Your body is a temple that has been hiding from the sun, protecting itself from the cold weather outside.
You are about to shift your energy just as nature is transforming. Let go of that old energy and allow yourself to sprout new leaves and grow. In order to make room for the spring energy of abundance to flow in you need to cleanse and open new avenues within you. Embrace the return of the sun through cleansing so that you can welcome it with fresh intent.
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Honor The First Sun Of Spring
This can be done as a solitary activity or with others. Wake up before the sun on the first day of spring. As the sun rises welcome it by raising your hands up with palms to sky. This brings the sun into your body and aural field. Pull the energy of the sun through your Crown, Tjird Eye, Thraot, Heart, Solar Plexus, Sacral and Root chakras.
Then, plant your hands firmly on ground to return the sun to Mother Earth. Take your time with this. Breathe in love, breath out gratitude. Smile. You will notice a difference in your own energy because the sun passed through you on it's way to the earth. Share your energy with those around you.
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Bless Flowers & Place Them In Your Home
Nothing says springtime like flowers, and flowers bring a fresh, verdant energy into a space. So choose or gather a bouquet that speaks to you. Hold it in sunlight (if it’s sunny outside, otherwise visualize sunlight filling it) and call on the Goddess Ostara to bless it with the qualities of balance, playfulness, love, and new beginnings. Then place it on your altar or elsewhere in your home.
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Make A Spring Altar
By yourself or with friends and loved ones decorate an altar for spring. Use bright colors and vibrant imagery. Make sure it's somewhere you can visit easily and often. If you are nervous that those you live with will judge you or be fearful of the witchy symbology, keeping it positive and light by using only flowers and candles.
You do not want to invite fear into your home and certainly not to your altar. If those who live in your home understand the symbolism, then add in pentacles, goddesses, symbols of protection and blessings. Placing living plants and flowers can encourage you to visit daily. Make it a beautiful, colorful, celebration of life and new beginnings. Imagine you are throwing a baby shower for mother nature.
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Eat & Share Vibrant Fresh Food
Spring is bountiful with beautiful seasonal fruits and vegetables. Create a picnic with friends and loved ones. Try to find a place by water to represent the flowing energy of life. Invite everyone to bring a dish that shows the vibrant colors of the season. It is not only a time for new beginnings, but for new friendship, adventures, atmospheres, and traditions.
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Dance & Laugh (preferably barefoot and outside)
Ostara has a childlike quality of playfulness and fun. So dance! It’s especially great if you can do this outdoors and barefoot, while also laughing at the silliness and wildness of it all. This will not fail to fill you with that buoyant, vibrant, springtime vibration that magnetizes blessings and spreads joy wherever you go.
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Get Crafty With Symbols Of Fertility
Eggs are a symbol of fertility because they produce life. Decorate eggs with natural dyes, such as turmeric or beet juice, decopage or paint. You can purchase plastic or wooden eggs to decorate and use year after year as well (a vegan option). Rabbits are another symbol due to the prolific way that they reproduce. Decorate your altar with these crafts.
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Hold A Circle To Raise Vibrations
Gather with friends and family for togetherness, fertility and abundance. Have everyone set and share an intention. It's really important to come together during this time of new beginnings to bring positive energy and raise it together as one. You will find you have more laughter and joy in your heart when this is done with others. You can decorate with colorful ornaments, flowers, plants and candles.
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Bless Chocolate Eggs With Intention
Relax and center yourself. Hold a chocolate egg in your right hand and cup your left hand over the top. Conjure up the feelings associated with the most positive possible manifestation of a brand new intention. Consciously direct the energy of these feelings and visions into the egg. Then eat it. (This will internalize your intention and set it in motion, sort of like planting a seed — so appropriate for Ostara!) Repeat with up to two more intentions.
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Reconnect With Animals
Spring awakens new life so celebrate it with new life. Take yourself to the zoo, a farm or petting zoo, where you might find baby goats, chicks, ducklings, calfs, etc. Spend time with the small creatures and gaze into their beautiful, big eyes. Additionally, if there are new babies in your family, spend time with them. Take a picnic, a walk or do whatever you are drawn to. Babies only know love so share that positive energy with them.
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Scatter Rose Petals On Your Bed
As the sensual and joyful reawakening of the earth, springtime provides a generous supply of blissy romance energy. Invoke this energy at Ostara, and bring it into your home and love life, by scattering rose petals across your made bed. Leave them there until the next time you use it.
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Article Sources : https://medium.com/female-trouble/5-ways-to-celebrate-ostara-the-spring-equinox-like-a-modern-witch-99d51f23d421 https://www.mumblesandthings.com/blog/2017/3/13/10-ways-to-celebrate-ostara-the-spring-equinox
