How do Wiccans celibrate the spring???

Question

My husband is Wiccan and I do know they have a celibration for all of the seasons. was it yesterday??? what is it called. please tell me about it.

real answers from people who know please.

Answer 1

Ostara is celebrated by Wiccans on or around March 21st (the spring equinox).

This page on the sabbats (eight seasonal holy days of Wicca) will give you some information about Ostara and how it fits into the "bigger picture", so to speak:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbats

Where I live, Ostara is a time for doing spellwork to encourage projects that are in progress and to celebrate the return of warmth to the winter landscape. In a few short weeks new plants will be rising from the earth, and we look forward to the renewal of life with joy.

Seasonal feast dishes include anything made with eggs, fresh milk, and leafy green vegetables.

This page has an explanation of Ostara lore and some basic correspondances in terms of symbols, Deities, and activities, as well as an Ostara ritual and some recipes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/ostara.htm

Hope this helps, and have a Blessed Ostara! :-)

Answer 2

It is actually at sundown today through tomorrow. He probably celebrated yesterday because it was the weekend. It is called Ostara or Eostre. It is a spring fertility festival that hearkens back to the days when the community was starting the years' planting. This would be the big celebration to ask the gods for a good crop this year. There would be all sorts of eggs, baby animals, and bunnies (oh, THAT'S where the bunny who leaves eggs comes from). Wiccans celebrate spring in remembrance of this old festival. Usually they plant some seeds, do some egg dying and have a pot luck (they almost always have a pot luck).

Answer 3

I hope that this will answer your question.

Depending on what time of spring you are refering too, or who you are asking, there are three spring celebrations. Imbolc, which is an old Celtic celebration, which is celebrated on the first of February, or at the first signs of spring, Ostara, which is the second of the spring celebrations, which falls on the Spring Equinox, in March, and then Beltane, which falls on the first of May. It was sometimes refered to as May day.

Imbolc is one of the four principal festivals of the Irish calendar, celebrated either at the beginning of February or at the first local signs of Spring. Originally dedicated to the goddess Brigid, in the Christian period it was adopted as St Brigid's Day. In Scotland the festival is also known as Latha Fhèill Brìghde, in Ireland as Lá Fhéile Bríde, and in Wales as Gwyl Ffraed.

Now at Ostara, I celebrate and honour the Deity Eostra, who incidentally, Easter was named after. She is one of the fertility goddess's, and she brings new life to the earth, and brings back the sun. Her symbols are the eggs, for fertility, and the rabbit, or bunny, (see a pattern here?).

For the May solstice, we have a wonderful thing called a Maypole, which traditionally was danced by all the single woman and single men, they wove ribbons of white to represent the male fertility, and red for the female.

We honor the Spring Deities, who most represent fertility, and new growth, we dance, we sing.

For all three we will hold a ritual, to honour the passing of winter, and the coming of the spring. Since I live in a climate where there is snow up until April, Imbolc, and Ostara are usually done inside. The rituals will vary from group to group, but it is always to honour the God and Goddess, and the solstice.

Answer 4

It is called Ostara, after Eostre, from which Christians got the name Easter. Many Wiccans plant gardens around the time of this festival and eat sacred meals. I am not Wiccan, but I have several friends who are. I proposed that ritual sex should also be part of it, but my Wiccan friends just laugh at me. I don't get it.

Answer 5

Its Ostara. Usually its celebrated with good food, dancing, etc and a ritual welcoming the spring. It wasn't yesterday. Today is the Spring Equinox, so its today.

Answer 6

It's called Eostara (various spellings) and it's a celebration of spring and of the balance of day and night, of new beginnings. Sometimes we give out flower or vegetable seeds.

Answer 7

We celebrated the Vernal Equinox with a feast and a ritual-breaking of the floes last weekend! Woo-hoo!

The rituals differ from group to group, so try ASKING YOUR HUSBAND.

[Obviously, my group is an English speaking group and doesn't tend to trot out fancy anglosaxonisms no matter how the kiddies do it.]

Answer 8

actually its today and tomorrow. is Ostara. there are many ways of celebrating it depeneds on how you wish to celebrate. there are simple or large celebrations group or solitary. look up "spring equinox rituals" into your search engine it should give you a larage variety of ideas. ~*~Blessed Be~*~

Answer 9

I think it is tomorrow and I used to live next to a house full of witches and they would have a huge BBQ and chant and stuff after dinner.

Answer 10

Similar to the way Christians celebrate Easter, except they obviously don't go to church or talk about Jesus rising from the dead. They do all the stuff with the rabbits and colored eggs, though.