The Wheel of the Year
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Foods: Hard-boiled eggs, honey cakes, fresh seasonal fruits, milk punch, leafy green vegetables, dairy foods, apples, nuts, flower dishes, sprouts, fish, maple sugar candies, hot cross buns, sweet breads, milk, punch, and egg drinks Animals and Mythical Beasts: Rabbits/Easter bunny, snakes, Pegasus, unicorns, chicks, swallows, and merpeople Colors: Light green, lemon yellow, pale pink, pastels, gold, grass green, robin’s egg blue, and lemon yellow. Gemstones: Amethyst, aquamarine, rose quartz, moonstone, bloodstone, and red jasper Goddesses: all love, virgin, and fertility Goddesses; Ostara (the German Goddess of Fertility), Eostre (Saxon Goddess of Fertility), Flidais (Irish), Kore, Blodeuwedd, Gaia (Greek), Hera, Persephone (Greek), Maiden, Faerie Queen, Lady of the Lake (Welsh-Cornish), the Green Goddess. Gods: all love, song & dance, and fertility Gods; Cernunnos (Celtic), Dagda(Irish), The Great Horned God (European), Odin (Norse), Thoth, Pan (Greek), the Green Man, Hare, Youthful Gods, Warrior Gods, Taliesin, Lord of the Greenwood (English). Revival of Spring Equinox Do whatever cleansing you would like (smudging with sage, sweeping with a besom, ringing of bells, infusion of herbal water). Cleanse yourself and your space. Light a bonfire. Set up the altar and decorate it with themes, colors and symbols of Ostara. Clear away the debris and stagnant energy left over from the cold dark months prepare mentally, physically, spiritually, for a fresh start in the spring. Light a candle at your altar, center yourself, and ponder on what seeds you would like to sow in your life this year. Write down everything which comes to you in a list, then choose three of them that you can really focus on: one for yourself, one for your family or community, and one for the planet. In the modern world, we are continually bombarded with distracting stimuli. The straight, orderly furrows of a ploughed field remind us of the need to focus on our own projects. Look at ways in which you can clear space and time in your week for cultivating the delicate new shoots that will appear. A seed will remain forever dormant unless it is planted in earth that has been well prepared for it. What groundwork do you need to do before your seed-ideas can germinate? Beltane 
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