* The Goddess Ostara *
From 365 Goddess by Patricia Telesco
Themes: Fertility, rebirth.
Symbol: Egg
About Ostara: The Teutonic goddess Ostara presides over personal renewal, fertility and fruitfulness. Now that spring is here, it's a good time tothink 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, Esotara, slowly evolved into the modern name for 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 24 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 to 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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