Ostara Activities

Clear a space for a garden, or start flowers, herbs or vegetables
indoors. It’s too early in this climate to plant fruits and
vegetables; frosts can happen as late as April in the North.

You can clear weeds, grass and rubbish from the spot where you plan
a garden, or you can start seeds indoors.

Pick up litter at your favorite park or beach. Help the earth
rejuvenate by getting rid of the mess.

Ritually color hard-boiled or blown eggs

Perform oomancy (divination by eggs).

Meditate on the imagery of the seed.

Meditate on the season’s flowers. Flowers are the sexual organs of
plants, consider what this says to you.

Perform magick to give back to the earth. Raise and send energy to
return to the Earth, our mother, some of the bounteous energy and
fertility She gives to us.

Meditate on the Moon-Hare, rabbits provide an obvious symbol of
animal fertility and see what comes to you about literal or creative
fertility in your own life.

Honor the spring or Earth goddess or god of your choice, or a
goddess or god of balance.

Light a bonfire at dawn on the Equinox to honor the light half of
the year.

Meditate or perform ritual at dawn or sunset.

Meditate or perform ritual for balance in your life and in the
earth’s life.

Do a ritual denoting the passing of the year’s dark half.

Use the energy of the time of year as you would the first quarter of
the moon. You can use the energy of this time of year to fuel any
new project or goal.

Meditate on beginnings, on the East, on air, on dawn. In meditation,
note how these symbols connect organically and how you relate
personally to them.

Taking a long walk in nature with no intent other than reflecting on
the Magick of nature and our Great Mother and her bounty.

If you don’t do your spring cleaning at Imbolc it is an ideal time
to clean your home to welcome the new season.

Offerings of food and milk are left for the fairies and other
spirits who live in and around rocks and are responsible for the
fertility of the land. Leave a few fruits from the last harvest for
the nature spirits.