A BLESSED OSTARA TO YOU TODAY.


Ostara is one of the eight major holidays, sabbats or festivals of the Wiccan wheel of the year. It is celebrated on the spring equinox, in the northern hemisphere around March 21 and in the southern hemisphere around September 23, depending upon the specific timing of the equinox. Among the sabbats, it is preceded by Imbolc and followed by Beltane.

The holiday is a celebration of spring and growth, the renewal of life that appears on the earth after the winter. In the book Eight Sabbats for Witches it is characterized by the rejoining of the Mother goddess and her lover-brother-son, who spent the winter months in death. This somewhat resembles the biblical story in which Jesus is resurrected, which Christians celebrate on Easter.