Ostara Tips from Team TSE

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On this episode of the Expedition to Soul Podcast, you’ll hear from all of Team Sisters Enchanted as we talk about our favorite ways to celebrate Ostara.

This year, in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara falls on March 20th. This day is also the Spring Equinox, a time when there is equal parts light and dark on this day. Ostara is the Spring Equinox.

Ways To Honor This Time of Year

From Sara

When looking at the wheel of the year, we are currently in the area of integration. Up until this point we have been talking about what intentions look like and what we see for ourselves for the future. Now is a great time to start taking action on those intentions we’ve been thinking about up to this point.

• • • Look at your intentions 
    • Pick one you’d like to move forward with
    • Do some Solar Work – what are the steps
    • So some Lunar Work – what is it going to feel like
    • move forward from there

Now is a great time to get moving again and make the big changes in your life that require action. Remember, this is a fertile season, the images of bunnies and eggs, and planting the seeds that will grow with us into the spring and summer months.

From Christina

Christina’s tip comes from her Shaman background and focuses around Nordic rituals.

• • • Nordic Ritual. This ritual comes specifically from Sweden. The celebration is called the Disting or Disablot (pronounced Dis-a-bloot). Focus is on the femine spirits/entities of spring, the Disir. Spirits/entities very similar to the Germanic goddess Ostara.
    • Set up your altar with anything springlike. It’s an offering for gratitude for the Disir who brought the spring. Traditionally this would be an outside altar made of a pile of stones.  Your altar can be indoors, bring some of outside to your indoor altar.
    • -walk around it 3 times counter clockwise to call up the Disir and their energy. You can use this rotation to call to ostara, or the spring energy!  Counter clockwise is the rotation of life.
      • You can walk around the altar, in front of it, or use a pendulum for this
    • Give offerings of vitality
    • After, traditionally there would be singing, or horn blowing, Christina uses a bell
    • Then sprinkle the area with any kind of “Holy Water” you use in your practice as an offering. This can be just water, moon water, an ale or wine, just focus your intention into the water that it’s an offering for spring. 
    • If you have an outside altar, be sure your offerings are edible to nature, and biodegradable. If the animals come to eat your offerings is a good sign that the disir, or the spring energies have heard your ritual and gratitude.

From Brandy

Brandy’s tip focuses around your front door, since it is the first place anyone sees when they come over to your house. You are also regularly walking in and out of that threshold, so cleaning and changing it up is an important thing to do.

How to clean your front door:

• • • Use a charged water (moon water, ritual water, etc)
    • Wipe down the edges with a holistic household cleaner
    • Clean any glass with a holistic household cleaner
    • Freshen up any season decoration around the front door (for Brandy, this is forsythia once it’s in bloom)
    • One last note, Brandy writes a chalk sigil under her door mat. She uses this time to create a new sigil for the threshold of her house for the new season.

From Anna

Anna’s tip is short and simple! And of course involves things that are green. Her suggestions include:

• • • Getting a new house plate to grow your intention with or watch your intention grow
    • You could also start a garden and plant your seeds
    • Or you could create a fairy garden

Most Importantly

• • • Wake up early! Especially on the solstice.
    • Grab your favorite morning beverage, some coffee, tea, hot water with lemon
    • Sit at your window and great the day as the sun is rising

Greet the day and be ready for all things to come with the growing daylight and spring time.

From Danielle

As someone who is less familiar with observing the Sabbats, Danielle’s suggestions focus more around the spring cleaning aspect of the season. Her suggestions include

• • • Spring cleaning a physical space
    • Especially my office space, anywhere you frequent often, give everything a good dusting
    • Clean the curtains
    • Clean the outdoor space
    • Pick up sticks and twigs, anything left over from winter storms. This give the grass the opportunity to grow
    • Clean your car
      • Remove the salt from the exterior and dirt from the interior from the winter and freshen everything up

From Sarah M.

A tradition in Sarah M’s family to celebrate Ostara comes with baking a delicious chocolate cake. Sarah suggests also adorning the cake with little mini chocolate eggs around the top. A tradition that is looked forward to by her whole family.

It’s also a great time to start taking more walks in nature and watch as everything is slowly coming back into bloom around you. It’s a way to celebrate the rebirth of life and new light. A good reminder that things are emerging from the darkness.

More Resources

On the Magic on the Inside Podcast, some of you may remember Sara spoke with Christina of Team TSE. You can find that episode and more Ostara Tips by visiting this blog article here: Magic on the Inside: Episode 115 – Ostara with Christina Boos

Read the Podcast Transcript Here

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