🌼 How to Celebrate Ostara Alone: Ritual & Ideas

[Francisco]

Ostara is one of the eight celebrations in the Wheel of the Year. This festival is preceded by Imbolc and followed by Beltane. It marks the end of winter and the beginning of the spring.

When is Ostara?

Ostara occurs on the spring equinox , around March 21 in the Northern hemisphere, and around September 23 in the Southern hemisphere.

The Meaning of Ostara

The word “Ostara” shares its origin with the word Easter. Both come from Old English ēastre, and related to Ēostre or Ēastre, a Germanic goddess whose festival was celebrated at the spring equinox. The word ‘east’ is also related as it represents the direction in the sky where the sun rises.

Meaning of Ostara in Wicca and Paganism

The book Eight Sabbats for Witches by Janet and Stewart Farrar describes the time around Ostara as the meeting of the Goddess with her consort, the Sun God, who is coming back to life after the winter. Other variations include the young God gaining strength after his birth in Yule and the Goddess returning to her aspect of the Maiden as a symbol of fertility.

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Ostara is a time of renewal and rebirth. The days and nights are of equal length and as the land begins to warm up it become a green paradise for animals to begin their mating rituals and flowers to blossom. Everything is a symbol of fertility, a feast of joy and romance.

What to do during Ostara?

Fertility and Growth Spells

This is a wonderful time to cast fertility spells in any sense: for physical fertility and also to promote growth and fruitfulness in any project. A few spell recipes:

• Road Opener Spell
• Attract Wealth with Basil
• Attract Good Luck with Salt
• Spells and Chants to Bring a New Love

During the Full Moon of March, cast spells and rituals for reconciliations.

Embrace Nature

Take some time to celebrate all life that sprouts around you, walking along the beach, a park, or through the forest. Admire the beautiful creation of Nature, take off your shoes and connect with its grounding enery. Pick wild flowers for your altar on the way back.

Video: Spiritual Fertility Spell

This is a guided Ostara ritual with candles, eggs and Wiccan prayers. We will cast a circle and plant spiritual seeds of fertility and growth for the season that begins.

Click here to Watch the Video Ritual

Create an Ostara Altar

Use a green or white altar cloth, add water, eggs, and two candles: one for the Goddess and one for the God. Decorate it with wild flowers and pastel colors. See more ideas and correspondences below.

Decorate Eggs

Paint eggs to symbolize your rebirth and that of Nature. Watch this video to learn how to decorate hard-boiled eggs. You can them eat them, sharing them with friends and family, or bury them as spiritual seeds.

Make an Egg Basket

This video shows how to make a basket with paper in a fun step-by-step tutorial.

Spring Cleaning

Open windows, dust out cobwebs and Get rid of old furniture and things. Let go of that old energy and allow yourself to sprout new leaves and grow. If you have a green thumb, plant seeds or start a Magickal Herb Garden.

Ostara Correspondences

• Herbs/Flowers: Sage, Rose, Freesia, Lemon, Jasmine, Acorn, Saffron, Nutmeg, Eucalyptus, Violets, Sunflowers, Honeysuckle, Daffodils, Lilies.

• Incenses: Frankincense, Strawberry, Sandalwood, Rose, Orange, Sage, Apple, Honeysuckle.

• Colors: Green, Yellow, Pink, Gold, Silver.

• Stones: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Red Jasper, Bloodstone.

• Foods: Eggs, honey cakes, the first fruits of the season, seeds, leafy vegetables and salads, chocolates, lamb, bread.

• Drinks: Water, Juice of seasonal fruits, Wine.

• Deities: Eostre, The Maiden, Astarte, Aurora, Eos, Kore or Persephone (as the maiden), The Green Man, Ares, Mars, Attis, Adonis, Osiris, Narcissus, Hyacinth, and Dionysus.

• Other Holidays: St. Patrick’s Day (Christian-Mar. 17), Eostara (first full moon after equinox), Easter (Christian-first Sunday following Spring Equinox and full moon), Ides of March (Roman New Year March 15), Hilaria or the Day of Joy (Roman-March 15), Festival of Astarte (Mar 17), Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Passover (Judaism).

However you choose to celebrate, the main ingredients to this holiday are renewal, transformation, balance, and rebirth.

Have a Blessed Ostara!

[MeganB]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful information.

I’ve felt the need to start my spring cleaning since Imbolg - and my family doesn’t really celebrate Easter anymore - so Ostara will be a wonderful time this year with my family.

[jayson]

Any ideas on how to celebrate Ostara without being obvious? As I’ve said before my parents are very closed minded Christians.

[Francisco]

Many Easter traditions, like having a feast, egg hunting, chocolate bunnies, are the same for Ostara and spring fertility celebrations.

So Ostara is really the perfect holiday to celebrate as a closeted pagan with a Christian family.

You can make anything and claim “it’s for Easter”, for example:

• Make a flower crown,
• Decorate eggs,
• Plant seeds,
• Light two candles representing the Goddes and the God,
• Make hot cross buns, a Christianised pagan tradition which features a Celtic cross,
• Take a long walk in nature.

[jayson]

Thank you so much. This is very helpful.

[jayson]

What is the purpose of the flower crown, decorating eggs, and making the buns?

[roxanne]

Flower crown for spring and remembering the God/Goddess, coloring eggs because Eostare saw a hurt bird and turned it into a hare, but it laid eggs in colors…buns to enjoy the bounties to come and celebrate the fact that you had enough through the winter to make them and to enjoy them with friends and family.

IF you don’t have anything to decorate your altar, try to go walking and get some tree limbs, leaves, things that are green, moss or even grass… anything to do with spring is fine… get creative, not expensive.

[Jeannie1]

Happy Ostara,
I made some eggs and thought I would be creative, so I Drawled the symbols of Earth Air Fire Either on my eggs
I am praying to Lord and Lady that I be renewed!

May you all feel the renewal of Ostara!
Blessed be!!
Jeannie

[MeganB]

I just realized I forgot to post my Equinox video here So I’m doing that now!

Celebrating the Spring Equinox 🌷 How I Celebrate and Tips for You [CC]

I’m almost to 2k subscribers and I’m excited

[Francisco]

Happy Ostara @Jeannie1 and @MeganB!!

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[walter]

Good day, fellow Coven. Happy Ostara.
Finally got my chance to set up my Altar for Ostara. Noticed my energy around was going stale. Therefore, moved and shifted things around and cleansed and saged everything. Trying to Spring clean as well.

I found this cute and simple Ostara-mini altar set up in a glass, jar, or bowl. ( I used a bowl)

Herbs used- Chamomile, Rosemary, Bay leaf and Cinnamon.

Oils used- Frankincense and Sea Mist ( if you add a couple drops of the oils i notice the herbs after i mortared them- they become moss like texture.)

Flowers used- Carnations and Daisies.

I filled my bowl with dirt half way, added the Moss, than the flowers. Cracked an egg and used the shell to put a tealight inside.

Also, added 5 of my favorite Tarot cards for the spell. I prayed and meditated for quite awhile.

It came out so “PRETTY” i think.

Also I’ve been a busy creating some candles for a couple of friends. I did a 9 day pillar candles, infused with herbs and essential oils. (@SilverBear , thank you for your amazing tutorials on dressing candles)
My friend was having a hard time finding work and i offered to help out if he wanted it- as soon as he lit the first candles they called him for a job he was hoping on.( Feels great to help others and see the magick works)

Not sure who posted the thread and pictures of the infused tea-light candles- but thank you so much! (My new obsession lol)

Also, made some black salt. @Francisco , thank you for that! I use my homemade tealights over the salt.

Here are pictures of my Altar-bowl and decorated Altar. ( I love setting up my altar with herbs- that i dry on )

Pictures are of the candles i made for my friends.

Thank you for reading-

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[walter]

Beautiful!!!

[Jeannie1]

Walter,
Happy Ostara, you are so creative! I love your creativity with the candles
I love your tea candles! Was it had since there so tiny? I wanted to make them too instead of wasting so much candle when I use the tapered candle. What did you use for your tea candle as far as the correspondences go? I made a love candle but I was thinking I like the tea candle cause its not so long. We’re supposed to throw them away afterwards or Barry it in the earth.
I am so impressed, it’s much more magical when you make your own candles huh!
Your alter always looks top notch! I love that your helping out others! You always shine that lite on me me! You are a light worker! The universe is going to bless you! Thank you for sharing you always shine!
Blessed be
Jeannie

[SilverBear]

Beautiful! So nice!!

[walter]

@jeannie, thank you, awe! Aways so full of compliments, thank you so much!I’m learning as i go, and gather information and knowledge from people as yourself and everyone in this great Coven.(Thank you)

For the correspondence herbs- i used Bay leaf, Cinnamon, Rosemary, Sage, Chamomile, and thyme… I melted down the tealights in the oven ( as a fellow witch here recommended- wish I could remember her name! But thank you!) I crushed it, in the mortar and put aside until the candle wax liquified. Than i poured the essential oils ( you don’t need much oil- just couple of drops or so.) and sprinkled the herbs onto the candles. Than, they just set. Took a second time to get it better lol… It’s a cheap investment. I buy the tea lights from the dollar store. Basically all my candles from there. ( I’m also a big fan of the tealights! So easy to work with…)

For the pilar candles i used the same- all herbs corresponding to abundance, prosperity, and job related. For the oil, i used Frankincense and prosperity oils

Please keep sharing your wonderful wisdom and creativity with us! You are amazing!

Blessed be

[walter]

@SilverBear ,thank you!!

[Francisco]

Great use of the black salt @walter!!

It looks like you are having a a very Magickal Ostara!! You’re such a talented photographer and altar decorator!!

[BryWisteria]

Absolutely stunning, @walter! It looks like you had a very magickal Ostara May the blessings carry forward to the next Sabbat! Love and Light

[walter]

@Francisco , thank you so much for the compliment! I love setting up my Altar! I love the greenery and flower additions. Also love photography too…
Blessed be.

[walter]

@BryWisteria thank you very much! To you as well! I thank you for all the wonderful guidance and direction in my path of Wiccan discovery.
Blessed be