Today's Goddess: OSTARA

Themes: Fertility; Rebirth
Symbol: Egg

About Ostara: The Teutonic Goddess Ostara presides over personal renewal,
fertility, and fruitfulness. Not that spring is here, it's a good time to
think about renewal in your own life. Ostara represents spring's life force
and earth's renewal. Depicted as lovely as the season itself, in earlier
writings she was also the goddess of dawn, a time of new beginnings (spring
being the figurative dawn of the year). One of Ostara's name variations,
Eostara, slowly evolved into the modern name for this holiday, Easter.

To Do Today: All spells and foods that include eggs are appropriate today.
If you've been ill, try an old folk spell that recommends carrying an egg
for twenty-four hours, then burying it to bury the sickness.

To improve fertility of all kinds, make eggs for breakfast at dawn's first
light, the best time to invoke Ostara. As you eat, add an incantation like
this one:

Ostara, bring me fertility;
with this egg now bless my fruitfulness!
Or, if you're feeling down and need a little extra hope, get up before the
sun rises and release a symbol of your burden to the earth by dropping or
burying it. Don't look at it. Turn your back and leave it there. Turn toward
the horizon as the sun rises, and harvest the first flower you see. Dry it,
then carry it with you often as a charm to preserve hope in your heart.

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