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Ostara Ritual 2014
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Ostara Ritual 2014
Fellow Star-dusted Traveler,
Please join me for a Spring Equinox celebration, Thursday, March 20, from noon to 1:00 EST.
I can feel Equinox magic coming. It’ll be a great ritual.
The event is a group phone call. Free and open to all. (Your usual long-distance charges apply, and appear on your phone bill). No experience needed.
To participate, call 1-712-775-7000. When prompted, enter 1095248#. Dial three to five minutes before noon; it can take a bit to connect, and latecomers are not allowed.
I look forward to our shared ritual renewal and joy with Spring’s beginning. The Cosmic Egg is about to explode!
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Ostara Art Eggs
Ostara Art Eggs
My Spring Equinox Altar
What is going to be on your Ostara altar? Sharing our altar journeys with each other unites our spirits—it is a way we can celebrate Sabbats together long-distance.
In my case, preparing an Ostara altar this year involved art work.
Let’s start with the Ostara pendant I made, to the right. … Um, okay, it is jewelry, not an altar piece. … But I myself can be an Ostara altar!
I love ornamented eggs, but didn’t think I’d have time to make Ostara eggs this year.
Then, I couldn’t resist when I found tiny egg-shaped unfinished wood beads. I’d been looking for them forever. These are 7/8.” See photo to the right.
They are tiny—I love tiny.
I painted one green and the other purple.
Then I ornamented them with various Jones Tones foils.
Next, I coated them with a protective clear finish.
I made each into a pendant by putting it on a jewelry pin, along with other with beautiful little beads. Joking aside about being an altar, I adorn myself in praise of my Gods.
I think some of the wee beads are Swarovski crystals but am not sure because I upcycle a lot, so do not always know what I am using.
Whatever they are, they sparkle, and this faerie loves sparkly things.
Below is another piece that will be on my altar:
Ostara Egg Cosmic Egg—Abundance and Chaos Meditation. If you would like this on your altar, click on it to go to my shop.
When I thought to myself that I’d have no time to decorate eggs, I’d forgotten that I’d already painted the above Celtic knot work talisman, probably in January. Do you ever get so caught up in creating that you forget what you have created? Let me know, please. I made this during a painting binge. Later I channeled material about it, which you can read at http://etsy.me/1pyFsvf
Traditional lore tells us that the cosmic egg explodes into chaos at spring equinox, creating the cosmos.
More knotwork: I painted this Birthing Goddess in 2013, probably during the winter. So this is the first spring equinox I can have Her on my altar.
If you would like this Goddess image on your altar, click on it to go to my shop. There, you will also find an essay I wrote, because painting Her brought up a lot for me.
She has the cosmic egg in Her belly. 
My altar will also hold other pieces of my art, plus ritual objects I’ve acquired over the years—including other people’s art, such as a beautifully crafted wand, and a well-made blade. Art takes many forms.
I only speak for myself when I say that placing my and other people’s art on an altar feeds my pagan heart and imbues my Sabbats celebrations with power.
What is going to be on your altar? Is there a story about creating or acquiring those pieces? Sharing our altar plans and altar stories can be an actual joint celebration of the rituals done at our respective altars.
Phoenix Ritual
Phoenix Ritual
Fellow Star-dusted Traveler,
Please join me for a ritual on Tuesday February 25, 2014, from 6 P.M. to 7:00 EST.
The theme will be renewal—like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.
The event is a group phone call. Free and open to all. (Your usual long-distance charges apply, and appear on your phone bill). No experience needed.
To participate, call 1-712-775-7000. When prompted, enter 1095248#. Dial three to five minutes before 6:00; it can take a bit to connect, and latecomers are not allowed.
Please come: Let us all experience and celebrate our innate ability to be renewed each year with the coming Spring.
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Joy Creates Abundance
The Generous Sun – Francesca De Grandis, 2012.
Beltane Poem
Do you say you’re too worried about money to be happy? Do you insist making a living earns all your time, you can’t take time for joy?
Ancient Mayday, it was not just an elite priesthood who went into the fields to make love. Even farmers did it to bless their crops.
Joy creates abundance.
Know the battle is fixed: When the Winter Queen and Spring Queen’s armies fight on Beltane, the Spring Queen always wins.
What keeps you from Spring? Is it fear, hate, self-doubt, refusal to love the frail arrogant humans populating this planet? What keeps you from Spring? Leap the Beltane fire. Be purified.
You winter heart—what freezes it still!? Leap the Beltane fire.
And be welcomed into Spring by the Faerie Queen.
She gives you a rose.
A dragon appears, climb on its back, take your rose with you, take flight upon this great and honorable beast.
As you fly, your thawed heart blooms a garden, your thawed heart blooms spring, your thawed heart starts to hope.
Become a garden on the back of a dragon,
Throw back your head and howl in mad joy.
Throw back your head and laugh with foolish pleasure.
Throw back your head to watch the moon and sun smile at us all.
Come to earth.
Throw back your head and grin, that Mother Earth caresses your feet.
Bow your head. Looking down, grin that you, a garden, are embraced by Mother Earth.
Thank the dragon, and say goodby as it flies off.
Do not try to keep it by you a second longer,
do not think it has more for you.
Trying to capture or control a dragon is bad news,
even if you do not realize you are trying to imprison it.
As you cry out a wish from the bottom of your garden heart,
a wish for abundance and all your heart’s desires,
throw your rose into the sky.
Do not try to get the rose back, let it go.
Send the gods love and power and hope.
Then say thank you and goodby to them for now.
Joy creates abundance. Take time for joy.
May 2, 2013. Yesterday, I wrote a Beltane ritual in my head while I was leading it. Usually I don’t remember what I channel unless I write it down right then but, for various reasons, some of it remained with me. The above is a variation on what I remember of yesterday’s Beltane rite/poem/concept. One reason I remember it is that, as some of you may recognize, there are bits adapted from a Beltane script/poem/concept I developed years back. I made a new poem out of it today (never try to capture a oral tradition moment, make a new moment instead) to 1) help the rite’s participants, including moi, follow through on yesterday’s work 2) because gods impelled me 3) I am a ritualist, poet, and cosmologist who likes to share some of her ideas in written form, lol 4) I am taking time for joy.