SABBATH SERIES: OSTARA/SPRING EQUINOX

Written By Bronté The Witch

If you are reading this from the Northern Hemisphere, why don’t you take a moment and head to your closest window. Hopefully the sun is shining and you feel it’s warmth on your face. If the window is open maybe there is still a touch of coolness to its breeze. But take a moment and really observe nature. Ss she showing her soft pastels? Are the trees budding? Has the ground started sprouting it’s green lush? How about the birds, are they singing for you?

Goddesses, Gods and Mythical Creatures OH MY!

Persephone Rising

Eostre

Freyja

The Hare

Springtime Fae

Unicorns

Wood Nymph -Josephine Walls

Choose Your Own Adventure: Ostara Activities

CHANGE EVERYTHING HERE**** Although this list may invoke the desire to "do, do, do” remember that we are still in a state of rest (especially depending on the climate you are residing in), so go based off the energy of nature surrounding you. Is she (Gaia) clearing the fields of snow and sprouting tiny bits of green? Is she refusing to sprout leaves upon the tree outside your window for another few weeks? Go at your pace.

  • Start Organizing the Home/Pre-Spring Cleaning

  • Make Elderberry Elixers, Seltzers, and Serums

  • Craft Brigids Cross - this may take a few tries to perfect it, but it’s a great tool as well as a beautiful offering

  • Bring Flowers Into the Home - or plant a seed (indoor or outdoor) and watch it grow

  • Gather with a Trusted Friend and Have a Study/Life Planning Session

  • Make Flower Pressed Candles

  • Set an Alter for Brigid, Aphrodite, Cailleach, Juno and provide offerings

Honoring the Imbolc:

This is a great place to start, it’s more about the energy your invoking and less about the action. Remember when I talked about this being the time of planning, later will be a time of action? You can very easily start that intention at your alter. Here is how:

  • Creatures: Hares & Rabbits, Chickadees,

  • Colors: Yellow, Pink, Green, Blue, Purple

  • Food items: Eggs,

  • Hert Shaped Everything

  • Crystals: Clear Quartz, Fluorite

  • Flowers & Herbs: Lilies,

Adding some or all of these suggestions into your routine for Imbolc will support your celebrations tremendously. But as I always say, your journey of retaining knowledge on the Sabbath doesn’t stop here. In fact, I’ll go a step further to say that I’m sure through your exploration that you’ll be making traditions and connections all on your own! How magickal!!

My hope for you is to become more confident in your practice, and to bring in each Sabbath with ease and a true sense of knowing. Until then, I hope the knowledge shared here, and within this series keeps you curious, inquisitive, and active in your personal practice.

Until next time, stay spooky darklings xx

Bronté The Witch
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