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lotesseGood Ostara, world.
It's falling auspiciously for me this year--on the first day of the new term. Ostara, iffn ye don't know, is one of the old Celtic sabbats that corresponds with the equinox. It marks the time of new beginnings, community, communication, acting on winter intentions, fertility, and abudance.
It very much dovetails with what I need to do right now. I had decided this winter that, once again, I was going to try to come out of my shell. I get very shy about belonging, and it doesn't help that I keep being the new kid. I hide away in my academic work and don't participate in the community. And I do want to change that. So, this high day is going to be a big one.
Living as far north as I do, I can't really observe Spring until Beltaine. There's still snow on the ground, and nothin will grow for some time. But there is change in the air, and so I mark Ostara. My fertility/abundance associations are with Beltaine, because only then are they seasonable. But I've got Ostara herbs to carry this day, and tonight I'll do a burning. And something new is going to start.
Herbs and flowers for the high day: daffodil, violet, olvie, gorse, peony, iris, broom, honeysuckle, jasmine, lavender, lily, sage, willow, lotus, aloe, nutmeg, tansy, marjoram, lovage, lemonbalm, dogwood, orris, oak, elder, meadowsweet, acorn, vervain.
It's falling auspiciously for me this year--on the first day of the new term. Ostara, iffn ye don't know, is one of the old Celtic sabbats that corresponds with the equinox. It marks the time of new beginnings, community, communication, acting on winter intentions, fertility, and abudance.
It very much dovetails with what I need to do right now. I had decided this winter that, once again, I was going to try to come out of my shell. I get very shy about belonging, and it doesn't help that I keep being the new kid. I hide away in my academic work and don't participate in the community. And I do want to change that. So, this high day is going to be a big one.
Living as far north as I do, I can't really observe Spring until Beltaine. There's still snow on the ground, and nothin will grow for some time. But there is change in the air, and so I mark Ostara. My fertility/abundance associations are with Beltaine, because only then are they seasonable. But I've got Ostara herbs to carry this day, and tonight I'll do a burning. And something new is going to start.
Herbs and flowers for the high day: daffodil, violet, olvie, gorse, peony, iris, broom, honeysuckle, jasmine, lavender, lily, sage, willow, lotus, aloe, nutmeg, tansy, marjoram, lovage, lemonbalm, dogwood, orris, oak, elder, meadowsweet, acorn, vervain.