Ostara: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Spring Equinox

Turn off the world around you and tune in to yourself. Turn off any noises coming from anywhere else. Turn off your thoughts about the day. Turn off any distractions you may have. Feel yourself relax and unwind. Find your center and focus on being in the here and now. Nothing else matters right now. Everything else can wait. Right now is about you and your spirituality. Right now is for you.

All you have to do is look for the first spring flower and know the day of the week. If you see the first spring flower on a Sunday, it means you will have very good luck for the next several weeks. If you see it on a Monday, you will have good luck throughout the spring season. If on Tuesday you find your first flower of spring, whatever you attempt, you will succeed. If the first flower is found on a Wednesday, a marriage is coming. (It doesn’t necessarily mean yours!) The flower on Thursday is a warning of financial troubles, while one on Friday predicts wealth. The first spring flower on a Saturday is bad luck.

because they give you a chance to get out and about and away from the place where you may be feeling like you

All of these sites, and many more, mark the position of the sun on the day of the equinox. Whether these sites were created as spiritual places for ritualistic events or simply to mark the passage of time as a calendar, we may never know for sure. However, we have seen over time, groups all over the world have celebrated and honored the astronomical occurrences they saw in the skies above them. Even though it was Gerald Gardner who turned the Vernal Equinox into what we now know as modern-day Ostara, it is clear that for thousands of years, not only did people know that the equinox existed and occurred, they kept track of when it would happen as it must have held some sort of significance for them. Whether they saw it as a time of balance, a time of new beginnings, or simply as a time to plant, people took notice of the equinox and marked its occurrence often in elaborate ways with grandiose, complicated structures.