Ostara 2025

Merry Meet and Welcome to you magickal souls!!!!

It's time for us to think about the Spring Equinox which is also called Ostara. This event occurs on 21st March in the Northern Hemisphere and 21st September in the Southern Hemisphere.

Ostara has another name to those who follow a Druidic tradition: Alban Eilir, which means Light of the World. This is because it is the middle one of three Spring festivals or celebrations, with the other two being Imbolc in February and Beltane in May.

Ostara is named after the Germanic goddess with the Saxon version being called Eostre, which is another alternative name for this celebration. Her feast day was the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, which is almost the same calculation used for the Christian celebration although this is the Sunday immediately after the same Full Moon.

Spring is the season of growth and fertility. This is why seeds, new flowers blooming, and baby creatures are the symbols of this season, alongside eggs which are the ultimate symbol of new life as they hold it within them.

There are a couple of stories as to why the Hare/Rabbit is associated with this time, although I would think it's because they are prolific breeders. However, the stories include the Hare protecting eggs, but the one that seems to make the most sense involves the Goddess, Ostara. She found a bird on the ground in the second half of Winter, choosing to transform it into a hare. But the transformation was incomplete as the bird took the appearance of the hare but kept the ability to lay eggs, which it would decorate and leave behind as gifts to the kind Goddess.

The Spring Equinox is a time of balance, when light and dark are equal and neither holds power over the other. It's the time when new life returns as the cold fingers of Winter are finally loosening their hold over the Earth.

Ostara is the perfect time to start to plant a garden, starting seedlings, and getting the soil ready to plant in. In doing any of this, we are preparing the Earth for a renewal of life, and even just brand new life. Also, by planting physical seeds, we can be reminded to sow the seeds of change and balance as we step from darkness into the light.

With all this in mind, it's important that we consider how we can incorporate the energies of Ostara into our lives, especially if we want to be more connected and in tune with Nature and Her cycles. That's why I've created and done a collective reading for this, and used the Hocus Pocus tarot deck.

What area of our lives needs to have new life breathed into them?

The Empress

Well, the Empress comes to tell us that we need to be more motherly, especially to ourselves.

A lot of mothers will put all their energy into looking after everyone apart from themselves and they end up feeling burned out because they neglect caring and nurturing themselves.

Make memories with those around us but if we don't feel up to spending time with others for whatever reason, we can and should postpone until another day.

If we don't take time for self-care and self-love, we can't look after others as well as we want to.

This is the area of our lives that we need to breathe new life into, before we become too burned out from either partying and having too much fun or neglecting our own care needs.

What needs to be nurtured and protected in our lives?

The Magician & 9 of Candles

With the Magician, the message is that our confidence and presence needs to be nurtured and protected. Our personal knowledge of our own selves needs to be deepened and extended.

In Hocus Pocus, Winifred doesn't doubt her own abilities or the knowledge she has because she knows who she is, what she can do, and that if she doesn't know something, she has knowledge at her fingertips.

This is what we need to do for ourselves. We need to be sure of ourselves, and what we can do. We need to be sure that if we don't know something, we have that knowledge at our own fingertips. We need to emulate Winifred's confidence and lack of doubt.

With the 9 of Candles, we are being told to nurture and care for how bright our personal light shines out into the world.

If we have just the right level of confidence, our light will naturally shine bright like the candelabra shown in this card, with each candle representing a skill that we have which could be shared with the world.

So belief and a general inner confidence in our own selves are what need to be nurtured and protected in our lives.

As much as we have the ability to light our skill-candles, someone else can come along and insult us until we stop believing in what we can do. So we need to protect our skills and keep shining them out into the world so that we don't let anyone control who we are or dim our personal light. We need to be confident in this protection, defending it as necessary.

How can we transform ourselves to embrace the new life of the season?

8 of Potions & 8 of Lightning

With the 8 of Potions, we are being shown that we might be carrying too many emotional burdens to be able to grow new life. Mary is shown carrying several bottles that are either potion ingredients or individual potions on their own.

It's either that or we have too many ideas that we are bottling up and doing nothing with because we are too attached to them. Sometimes we have to release ideas out so that they can grow within the world or find someone who can help us to grow them ourselves.

We might even be oblivious to how to make these ideas real and manifest in our lives, so by putting some of them down, we can see what it is that we want to work on, maybe hand some over to someone else, and/or just shelve some for another day.

With the 8 of Lightning, the message is that we can transform ourselves mentally. In fact, this is where transformation will start because once we start changing our mind, our way of thinking, and/or our perspective, we can transform the rest of our selves, and our lives.

But we have to be willing and happy for that transformation to even have a chance at starting.

Change can be a good thing. Without change, everything stays the same, we don't learn new knowledge or lessons, and we stay in the same place with no prospectof improving our lives.

But if we are willing to either note down our ideas, share them and just generally put them out into the world, then change is possible. We can and should have a positive effect on the world around us as well as the one within us.

Which area of our lives needs to be more balanced?

The High Priestess

With this card, we are being told that our desires and what we manifest needs to be more balanced.

If we can focus our will and manifest our desires into being, then our newfound power will help us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the path we currently walk.

But this can only happen if we are willing to continuously reflect on and understand the place of our goals as we journey through life. The first step towards manifesting is understanding.

Within this card, we are shown Sarah Sanderson as she is in the process of mesmerising children. Sarah knows the connection between desire and manifestation, the seen and unseen, the magickal and the physical. So we need to be more like Sarah, just without the desire to suck the lives out of little children.

It's interesting that being nurturing and caring come up with Spring being such a motherly kind of season. Each of the Sanderson Sisters pops up to show us how to be like them or how to be better than them, to show us the lessons that we can learn this Ostara.

I hope this has been helpful for this time. If you'd like a more personal look at how this Ostara could impact your life, my diary and inbox are open.

Peace and love to all!!!!