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On the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Ostara is the second fertility festival and for many marks the first day of Spring. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s traditionally celebrated on September 21st but can actually fall on the 22nd or 23rd. For the Northern Hemisphere, it’s celebrated anywhere between March 19th and 22nd (the dates change year to year).
Ostara was a spring Goddess revered by the native pre-Christian Germanic tribes of northern Europe, called Eostre by the Saxon tribes of ancient Britain.
She is known as a goddess of the dawn, the awakening earth, growing light and fertility. It is believed (though there is little information recorded) that she is the namesake for the Christian holy day of Easter. Her feast day was held on the full moon following the spring equinox, much like the modern Easter.
With equal parts light and dark, Ostara represents balance, harmony, and the duality of feminine and masculine, day and night, above and below.
For us, it’s not just a celebration of fertility and the resurrection of Spring but also a feast day that honours the Spring Goddess and Earth Mother. It is at this time that the Horned God is born again, resurrected to wed the Goddess in the never-ending wheel of the seasons.
Themes of rebirth, renewal, hope, intention setting, and sacred union abound at this time. We can pause to revere and honour the seedlings as they burst forth from the soil, heralding new life and new beginnings - whether literal or metaphorical.
All of these celebrations can be enhanced by weaving in a Sacred Earth Medicine Ceremonial Cacao. Whether it’s simply sipping as you celebrate or adding in a full Cacao Ceremony before you start – either way it’s going to amplify the goodness and send those ripples out…
Blessed Be your Ostara Celebrations! xx
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