To wrap up the part of my blog on Ostara, I want to share with you what Spiral Grove as a coven focuses on within our Ostara ritual, what this time of year and our ritual means to us. As Spring celebrations are dedicated to growth and fertility, there are many rituals designed to please the deities, the universe, and ensure physical growth and fertility, as well as emotional, and spiritual growth.These rituals often take the form of offerings of seeds and other tokens of fer

When it comes to Ostara, there are three with which I connect with the most. Ostara for me is first and foremost about New Beginnings and Fertile Growth. Seeds, Hares and Eggs represent all these things. Seeds. What is a seed, but a microcosm of the macrocosm of the Universe? Within a seed there is a map of life; the Beginning waiting to burst forth from its shell and grow. Each seed, no matter how small or large, holds within its power the transformation of a fully grown

Ostara, the vernal equinox, the beginning of Spring, will soon be upon us, and the earth shall burst forth in bloom. Upon the Wheel of the Year, Ostara is a day of balance. It is a day of renewal and new beginnings. Celestially speaking, we are halfway between the solstices. The Spring Equinox has long heralded a shift of light over dark. It is after we reach the vernal passing on our solar year that the daylight hours become greater than night time hours. This shift re

Merry Meet! This is the first post of a series that I will be sharing with you over the next year. There will be other posts from me in between, but if you want to explore some ideas, symbolism, inspiration and a deeper look into the Wheel of the Year, come join me Fridays as I delve into each sabbat. As the Wheel is a cyclical, I am setting my starting point for this blog series to line up with where we are right now, heading toward Eostara. For the next 5 weeks there