Winter is over and the world is re-awakening. The Great Mother, our Goddess, breathes life into the world ones more and the Horn God is playing in the forests resurrected for another cycle. Ostara is here, and before us lies spring and summer, warmth and comfort, thriving nature and endless possibilities.

With the arrival of March comes the promise of spring—the month is said to roar in like a lion.

Ostara is the second of three spring festivals on the Wheel of the Year. Coming in between Imbolc and Beltane, this is a time for celebrating the balance between extremes Masculine & Feminine that is found amid the seasons. Although it may still be chilly in many regions, this is the official beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

Keywords: a fresh start, childish wonder, warmth, renewal, fresh sprouts, light green, yellow, purple. Cleaning, uplifting, mating season.

The festival of fire, water, sun and moon, fertility, joy and love is celebrated in areas inhabited by Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, and Celtic people.

Great and powerful sun, we honor you this day and thank you for your gifts. Ra, Helios, Sol Invictus, Aten, Svarog, you are known by many names. You are the light over the crops, the heat that warms the earth, the bringer of life. We welcome you, and we honor you this day, celebrating your light, as we begin our journey once more into the darkness.

During this magical night, fires were lit in which herbs were burned. During the joyful games, various divination and dancing took place. The girls made wreaths with lit candles into the river currents. If the wreath was caught by the bachelor, it meant they were married for this celebration.
Jumping through bonfires and dancing around them were to cleanse & protect against evil forces and disease. The magic and unusual Midsummer night, full of laughter and fun, was also a time of confessions of love, courtship, pairing young couples, and free love games, which were allowed by tradition and customs. According to some sources from the distant past, this was the time of ceremonial orgy.

Blessings for the bounty of the Summer Harvest.
Blessings for balance in your life as we attune with the power of equal night and day.
Blessings for that which falls away, that which needs to be released with faith and trust into the mystery.
Blessings for the light & warmth of the summer sun as we head through this transition season towards the dark of winter. With gratitude for the wisdom blessings of the turning of the medicine wheel of seasons, within us and in the cosmic field of plenty.

This holiday is celebrated as the rebirthed of the Great horned hunter God who is viewed as the newborn solstice sun. Between 21.12 and 6.01 we have 13 magical days, called time out of time.

The symbolism of Yule: the longest night of the year, Cosmic Womb, introspection, reviewing the ending year, planning for the future.

Activities of Yule: caroling, wassailing the trees, burning the Yule log, decorating the tree, exchanging of presents, kissing under the mistletoe, honoring pagan God and the Goddess of Yule, wishes for a coming new year.

Beltane honors Life. It represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer. Earth energies are at their strongest and most active. All of life is bursting with potent fertility and at this point in the Wheel of the Year, the potential becomes conception.

On May Eve the sexuality of life and the earth is at its peak. Together with the May Queen and the May King, they are symbols of the Sacred Marriage (or Heros Gamos), the union of Earth and Sky. It is about sexuality and sensuality, passion, vitality, and joy. And about conception. A brilliant moment in the Wheel of the Year to bring ideas, hopes and dreams into action. And have some fun.

Celebration of the first fire awakening in the deep womb of Mother Earth. Honoring Goddess Leila / Brigit. After months of turning inward, of hibernation & of rest, life is beginning to stir again.

Is a very important date in the Pagan calendar for it marks the Feast of the Dead, the honoring of the dead, our ancestors which is a serious religious practice.

Forefathers Eve:
"There's milk, cake, sweet rolls
And fruit and berries
What is it you need, soul
To enter heaven? "
It's said that through these nights the veil between the world of living and dead is so thin that one can travel between them and meet spirits to communicate with them.