☽ Sisters ☾ Ostara Altar: Pick 3!

Hello Sisters!

To celebrate the Spring Equinox, we will be having a pick 3 swap to decorate our Ostara altars! [Or just plain decorate, for those of us without altars.]

Requirements: You will be sending three items that correspond with Ostara to your partner. At least one of the three must be handmade! Be as creative as you'd like with your handmade item, s'long as it corresponds with the themes of Ostara. Please make sure all three items are different [ie., don't just toss in one card, one recipe, and one drawing. Vary it!] and the cost be between $15 - $20. You could also include a lil note with your SB name & the swap's name, and perhaps a brief explanation of the items you've included.

Your options can include but are not limited to: flowers, seeds, baby animals (!!!), items used in Ostara spellwork, candles, handwritten recipes, etc.

Here are a few general ideas that I wrote up for a blog post on decorating your Ostara altar last year~ hopefully you can use it as inspiration for this swap!

'Ostara is one of only two days in the year when the day and night are equal [the other being Mabon]. At the Spring Equinox, the dark and light are in perfect balance, with exactly twelve hours of each. From then on, the light grows ever stronger, increasing every day until it reaches its peak at the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.

Because of this unusual state of symmetry, balance is one of the magickal themes for this sabbat. Not just between darkness and light, but balance between male energy and female energy, and the physical world and the spiritual world. Ostara is also a fire festival, in honour of the return of the Sun, and a fertility festival that celebrates growth, rebirth and new beginnings. These aspects of the holiday make it one of my favourites. To me, Ostara is all about potential: the potential for balance, within and without, and the potential for growth, renewal, and the possibility of a new start.

Deborah Blake, excerpted from Llewellyn’s Sabbats Almanac.'

One week to sign up and two weeks to send~ That will give us three weeks from the last send-by date until the Sabbat, so hopefully the packages will arrive on time =) But, we have no control over the postal service. Please ensure to rate your partner a 5 as long as you receive a package sent by the send-by date that follows the swap's instructions.

Blessings!