9/3/2023 0 Comments The lovely eggs witchcraftShe thought them so beautiful that she wished this to be shared with all, so the rabbit went round the world distributing these gifts of life. He worshipped the Goddess Eostre, and to please the fertility goddess, he decorated sacred eggs and presented them to her. What – another pagan tradition adopted by the church – no!!! Yes, and the Easter bunny is another. To symbolise the turn of the sun wheel, people would celebrate with what is now called hot cross buns – sweet buns decorated with a solar cross – and this was long before the church adopted them as a symbol of their own but to me they represent the sun and the moon, the circle of life, the four seasons and the Celtic cross and I love them toasted (the element of fire) so it is all in the power of what you believe yourself. They would also bless the ground with seeds for the forthcoming season and ask Mother Nature to be kind and smile on them. They would rise at dawn, put on their new clothes and watch the sun come up. In days gone by, to celebrate the spring and the new beginning, people would wear new clothes they had spent all winter making, but not until the equinox – bad luck to wear them before. Place spring flowers in the home and, because it is the festival of New Life, it is time to “spring-clean”, clearing out the old and making way for the new. All of nature gets ready for their new life, be it the spring flowers of the earth, the blossom on the trees or the young of the birds, bees and animals. Life evolves from inside the egg, hence why we have chocolate eggs at this time of year. The Goddess even gives her name to the hormone that stimulates ovulation, Oestrogen. In days gone past, they would have been hard-boiled eggs brightly painted, but this tends to be a tradition that, in most places, has now died and be replaced by our favourite chocolate in brightly coloured foil (makes sense now). Yes, the chocolate egg is a modern-day pagan symbol to symbolize the Goddess Oestre. The festival is all about rebirth and growth, and this is highly apparent in it’s symbol of the egg. At Ostara, the symbolism is balance – if you or your life is not in balance, time to see how it can be sorted whether it is about health or things/people that stress you out!! New things are paramount at this time – hence why we celebrate with an egg – the beginning of life itself. This is nature leaving darkness behind and heading for the light and you too can do the same. Have a look at your life and if you are not happy with what you see, then this is the time to do something about it, whatever it is or at least start to plan. I personally always feel unsettled at the equinox and tend to do something rash – in the past I have set up the business, moved home, changed the car (several times), split up with a partner (several times) – are we getting the picture so you have been warned but just go with it as it is all about change and this time of conflict lasts 14 days before and after the equinox. The 2 weeks before and after the equinox tend to be somewhat tense and full of stress (nothing new there then) as nature battles with itself to find balance once again. When you are in tune with nature, this can be a very stressful time. From now on, the earth is in full swing, trees start to bud, the birds sing happily in the sunshine and all over the garden is evidence of new growth. The sun will now grow in strength and the day will be longer than the night after 21. Ostara is the festival of the Spring Equinox, when night and day are equal once again.
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