Welcome to March! I’m a Pisces, so I like to celebrate not only my birth month, but the fact that Ostara arrives! The time of change can be thrilling, yet painful at the same time. To navigate through this exciting month, you need to maintain a strong sense of perspective and trust.
During March, the sun’s energy will reach everything that’s been underground, waiting to sprout.
It’s time to let go of what we know must be released in order for our soul to fully thrive. During March, the sun’s energy will reach everything that’s been underground, wanting to sprout. This is a time of trust because we can’t see exactly what’s happening yet, but we know it’s about to happen.
In honor of Ostara (March 20th), do a Ostara blessings ritual that puts us in sync with the miraculous power of nature. Those of us in the northern hemisphere move to more light, and it is the light that draws our seed or goal through the surface and into reality. So we will honor this activation in four steps:
Bless a bouquet of fresh flowers, and place it in your home.
Nothing says springtime like flowers, and flowers bring a fresh, verdant energy into a space. So choose or gather a bouquet that speaks to you. Hold it in sunlight (if it’s sunny outside, otherwise visualize sunlight filling it) and call on the Goddess Ostara to bless it with the qualities of balance, playfulness, love, and new beginnings. Then place it on your altar or elsewhere in your home.
Bless chocolate eggs with your new intentions, then eat them.
Hold a chocolate egg in your right hand and cup your left hand over the top. Bring up the feelings associated with the most positive possible manifestation of a brand new intention. Direct the energy of these feelings and visions into the egg. Then eat it. (This helps internalize your intention and set it in motion, like planting a seed ) Repeat if needed for more intentions.
Plant seeds.
The most popular is planting seeds on Ostara. If it’s still too cold to plant outside, plant them in a pot on a windowsill. Bless them first, empowering them with intentions for the coming season and year.
Light a candle.
Every morning during the month of March, light a candle and think about your intentions happening in the present.
Stay optimistic and trust as you undergo a spring-energy birthing process of your own!
