Happy Spring, friends!
Welcome to the season of renewal, restoration and rising light. It’s time to break out of the darkness, apply your new found Winter wisdom and dance under the buds of the tree of life. The reemergence of our Goddess Eostre is returning from the Underworld to celebrate our soulful flight into this fertile season of growth. With her long hair adorned with flowers, she supports every sacred vessel and invites limitless wonder and curiosity to rediscover the secrets of nature.
This vernal equinox seeks balance: dark and light, inner and outer, masculine and feminine. Our Great Spirit is also inspiring and supporting our quest to nourish the seeds we have planted as they will bear the fruit of sustenance and vitality we require to prosper through the rest of the year. We take time to look for daffodils, tulips, crocus, primrose, budding pussy willow branches and catkins of birch gently swaying in the undulating breeze. We notice shades of lavender and purple and golden yellow reflections of warmth in every new dawn. We embrace a moment of joy as we witness a bunny scampering through the emerging blades of grass, and most anxiously we walk a trail into the woods every so gently hoping to discover a tightly woven nest full of speckled eggs. Such a beautiful season full of hope. One of cleansing our homes, continuing to flourish in our New Year intentions, and praying for healthy abundance.
Spring is often associated with the element of wood. Trees awakening are symbolic to new ideas and creativity sprouting. Wood represents mental clarity and our abilities to focus on forging new paths, tending to relationships and rising above sluggish endeavors. Let the East winds carry away your worries and focus on new visions. Eyes are often associated with the liver and gallbladder (which is responsible for distributing nourishment to the entire body) so Spring would be a perfect time to invest in healthy detox practices…emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually as nature teaches us to treat the whole being. Repressed energy tends to create illness and breed disease.
Herbs and Oils to Embrace: jasmine, rose, tansy, violets, crocus, daffodil, dogwood, honeysuckle, iris, lily, strawberry, birch, ash, alder.
Traditions to Enjoy: color eggs, paint and draw flowers, snip a few pussy willow branches for a vase, learn about the magical lore of rabbits, read about the deities of Spring, enjoy a detox bath, rise early to enjoy a quiet sunrise, take a walk to relish in new blooms, bake Hot Cross Buns (representing friendship and goodwill), journal a Spring list of activities, meditate during the rain or things of the like.
Do you have Ostara traditions? I’d love to hear them!
XO,
