Spell For Spring Equinox March 20 2012

The Wiccan festival of Spring Equinox will take place on March 20, 2012. Eostre or Ostara was the Goddess of Spring and in ancient times, old fires were extinguished, grates cleaned and new fires were lit. This is the origin of our modern tradition of spring cleaning.

At the Spring or Vernal Equinox, the hours of light and darkness are of equal length. Now is the perfect time to perform spells to find balance in your life or to cleanse your mind, body and home of old, negative influences and replace them with fresh, positive ideals.

Decorate your altar with spring flowers, like crocus, tulips and daffodils and light pastel-coloured candles, like mauve, pink and pale green. Burn lavender incense and use lily of the valley oil.

Celebrate this Wiccan festival by serving a meal with eggs, fresh greens, lamb and barley stew and hot-crossed buns.

My eBook Simple Wiccan Magick Spells & Ritual Ceremony, is an introduction to the Wheel of the Year and contains correspondences, recipes and a spell to find balance in your life.

Blessed be!

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The Sabbat Of Ostara Decorating Eostre Eggs

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Spring Freebie In Our Etsy Shop

Spring is ready to pop! This year I created a really cool file of printable Ostara cupcake wraps and included a printout full of information about the Goddess Ostara and an easy recipe for making special Ostara cupcakes, great for celebrating the Sabbat with magical friends or family!

We have lots of cool gifts in our Etsy shop to celebrate Ostara or the Spring Equinox, fill a

basket or just pick one special item! Click here to visit!

Right now we will send a free printable Ostara Cupcake Wrap set to everyone who orders from our Etsy shop, from now until the Spring Equinox or Ostara March 20 2013!

Click here to visit our Etsy Shop and take advantage of this fun giveaway!

When I think of Ostara I think of the blessing of seeds, potential, and the first buds that are coming forth in the early spring. I came up with an easy way to make fancy Ostara cakes using just a simple cake mix and adding some special ingredients. These are perfect for your Ostara ritual cakes or for a celebration feast! This simple recipe including ideas for your own variations is included with the cupcake wraps and I've also included instructions for making sugared flower petals to decorate your cakes with.

Pages that come with the Ostara Cupcake Wrap set

There are four on a sheet, and you can print as many as you like year

after year. Of course the ones we email are high resolution and don't have a

watermark across them like these do!

Here's how they turn out, really sweet!

The Spring Equinox has special meaning to Dan and I, it's also our wedding anniversary. This year we will celebrate our 15th anniversary, we are still madly in love! We are so happy now because we work full time running the art business so we get to be together all the time, it's awesome spending every day making pretty gifts for our wonderful customers! We hope you enjoy this spring freebie!

Dan and Mickie March 21 1998

Have a blessed Spring!

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