Significant Date: Spring Equinox 
​March 20, 2021

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Spring Equinox Ritual Guidance
Here in the northern hemisphere, the sun is growing warmer, thawing the earth and warming the seeds germinating beneath the sleeping layers of life getting ready to burst upward in celebration of new awakenings!

​We invite you to tune into your womb or hara to envision just how you would like to celebrate this new dawn and commune with this cycle of nature.  

Tune into how the elements within you align with the elements of nature outside of your being, and how you are connected. What is awakening within you that has been dormant? What is ready to be revealed and honored with the joy of life regenerated? ​
Some ideas:
  • Rise early to ceremoniously greet the dawn of the new day and the new season.  Intentionally allow the early rays of light to penetrate your eyes and fill you with the awareness of the natural energy manifests life.
  • Walk in nature and around your home acknowledging the signs of Spring already growing up from the ground and budding upon the branches of shrubs and trees. Greet them and offer them a whispered prayer or song, or warm loving energy from your hands. Notice what insects, critters, birds and other animals are awakening and be aware of how their behavior is being activated at this pivotal time.  
  • Refresh your home, altars, your outlook on life, your wardrobe, your recipes, drinks. Set intentions for new long term projects for this season.  Build a new altar.
  • Dance and sing with nature and life!  Dance for the seeds you planted to grow. These can be literal seeds or the intentions you have set for new life to grow.  Connect with the energy of innocence of children and the playfulness of young life.  We have created this playlist for you to move intuitively to, or create your own playlist to dance and hum along with.  
Here's a Spring acorn dance to inspire you, a very sweet moment of ritual and prayer in this beloved family favorite movie:

Mythic Depths

The Vernal Equinox (which means youth or spring) marks the midpoint journey of the sun between winter solstice and the Summer Solstice. A day of rebirth, renewal, fertility, vitality, reunion, regeneration.

Nowruz- The Persian Solar New Year is celebrated on the Spring Equinox and its Zoroastrian roots of worshiping fire as the sign of everlasting strength and health.

In Greek Mythology, the Spring Equinox is when the Earth Goddess Demeter begins to anticipate Persephone’s, her daughter/maiden aspect, return from the underworld.
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Ostara the Germanic Spring Goddess 
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​​“Ostara’s themes are fertility and rebirth. Her symbols are eggs. The teutonic Goddess Ostara presides over personal renewal, fertility and fruitfulness. Now that spring is here, it’s a good time to think about renewal in your own life. Ostara represent spring’s life force and earth’s renewal. Depicted as lovely as the season itself, in ealrier writings  she was also the goddess of dawn, a time of new beginnings (spring being the figurative dawn of the year). On os Ostara’s name variations, Esotara, slowly evolved into the modern name for this holiday, Easter. “   
​The Sun God and Earth Goddess merge together in Sacred Union and Balance as the day and night are equal. A beautiful invitation for an inner marriage and ceremonial celebration of the return of the Sun and the fertility of Earth Mother begging to spring from her dark womb.
What is ready to be dissolved?
What visions do you wish to birth?
What seeds do you wish to sow?