With the early urgings of green, we await the arrival of spring. Morning bird-song excites our passions. We breathe deeply the cool morning air filled with the fragrance and promise of spring’s return. The Goddess spills petals from Her glowing hand. Spreading the light of the new day. The God-Child plays among fawns and rabbits, chasing squirrels through the trees and leaves.

Ostara (spring equinox) is the time to celebrate the arrival of spring, when light and darkness are in balance. From this day on, the light grows stronger and days grow longer. The Goddess has weaned the young God from Her breast. He has grown and come Beltane He will be the Phallic Lord, lover and consort to our beloved Goddess. The earth is beginning to warm and awaken. The trees are starting to bud and some have even flowered. Bird-song fills the air reminding us of love, passion and stirs natures desire to copulate. Many of the symbols of Ostara have become the symbols of the Christian Easter tradition. Most of these symbols represent new life and fertility such as the egg and rabbit known for their fertility.

The seeds or spells we plant today, when nurtured, will sprout and produce the fruit of our aspirations and actions. Ostara is the time of renewed hopes, joys and enthusiasms, for our desires grow and we are filled with inspiration for a renewed earth and Self. Like the earth, we have come to find balance and from this balance be are reborn and resurrected from the dredge and bonds of winter.

Ostara is the time to say goodbye to the Spirits and energies of winter and the time to honor and welcome the Spirits and energies of spring. For this is the twilight of Mother Earths awakening.