✨💕INTRODUCTION💕✨
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✨💕 What is Ostara? 💕✨
Ostara is one out of eight celebrations that the Pagans celebrate 🎉 from their Wheel of the Year. Ostara is the celebration of the Spring 🌼 Equinox is celebrated from the 1st of March. The word Ostara comes from Anglo-Saxon Goddess called Eostre. Which she represents Spring 🌼 and New Beginnings.
✨💕 What is Easter 🐣? 💕✨
Is a Christian holiday and festival that celebrates resurrection of Jesus from the dead ☠️! Which occurred upon the third day he was nailed to the cross. Easter 🐣 is also referred to as Pascha and/or Resurrection Sunday. Easter 🐣 occurs every first Full Moon 🌕 in Spring 🌼 and upon the first Sunday.
✨💕 When and Why is Ostara celebrated? 💕✨
To celebrate 🎉 Ostara it often occurs from March 19th to the 23rd. The main reason why it’s celebrated is because they are welcoming in the season of Spring 🌼.
✨💕 Are Easter 🐣 and Ostara the same? 💕✨
Yes only because they both are represented by a Rabbit 🐇 or Hare. Legend has it that the Goddess Ostara had randomly turned a bird 🦅 into a hare in which the hare laid colourful eggs 🥚 for her celebration 🍾.
✨💕 How is each celebration 🍾 celebrated? 💕✨
Excellent question, let’s get into Easter first.
⁃ An activity for the whole family is to paint 🎨 eggs 🥚. Which is where you boil some eggs 🥚 and use either dye or paint to decorate your eggs 🥚.
⁃ Craft a Spring Peony wreath.
⁃ Host either a brunch or lunch gathering with friends and family.
⁃ Give out or grow Easter Lilies. These flowers are believed to grow at the site of Jesus’s crucifixion from tears and blood.
⁃ Go on an Easter egg 🐣 hunt.
⁃ Go to Church (if your religious, of cause!).
⁃ Make and eat hot cross buns!
⁃ Make Easter baskets (if your creative, excellent activity for the kiddies)
⁃ Make something with carrots 🥕 like carrot cake.
⁃ Teach and learn about the Easter traditions.
Now moving on to celebrating Ostara:
⁃ Cast spells for new beginnings.
⁃ Decorate your altar dedicated to your deity.
⁃ Egg 🥚magic ✨ and folklore like an egg cleansing.
⁃ Make egg 🥚 based dishes like egg 🥚 custard, curried eggs 🥚 etc.
⁃ Perform a rebirthing ritual
⁃ Planting seeds in a vegetable stand or flower garden.
⁃ Spring cleaning
⁃ Take a nature walk an adore the surroundings of Spring 🌸 or Autumn.
✨💕 Things to decorate your home and or altar for Easter 🐇/Ostara 💕✨
⁃ Assigned to greens, pinks, blues 🎷 and whites.
⁃ Crystals assigned to Ostara are Aquamarine, Amethyst and Rose Quartz.
⁃ Deities assigned to Isis, Estotre and Adonis.
⁃ Eat and make foods of eggs 🥚, honey 🐝, sprouted greens, hot cross buns, baked goods, asparagus and anything chocolate.
⁃ Plants 🍃 and flowers 🌸: Clovers, daffodils, crocus and tulips 🌷.
⁃ Things to decorate for Ostara are clovers, eggs 🥚, lamb 🐏, rabbits 🐇, spring flowers 🌸
✨💕 REFERENCES 💕✨
🧡 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Easter-holiday
💚 https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/g16765061/easter-traditions/
💙 https://www.bhg.com/holidays/easter/games/indoor-easter-activities/
💜 https://www.mabonhouse.co/ostara
💗 https://www.learnreligions.com/all-about-ostara-the-spring-equinox-2562471
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