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    Celebrating Ostara With Kids

    This is an article that originally appeared on my old About.com page and was eventually moved over to LearnReligions, but now it’s been deleted, so I’m going to share it with you here. Since Ostara comes to the Northern Hemisphere on the 20th, I thought it was a good time to talk about how you can celebrate the season if you’ve got small humans in your house. Ostara is the season of the spring equinox, and falls around March 20 in the northern hemisphere (it’ll be somewhere near September 20 if you’re one of our readers below the equator). This the time when spring begins anew, and much like Mabon, the…

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    The Chocolate Rabbit Ritual

    This is a ritual I created waaaaaay back in 2008 and posted on my About.com page, and since that time it’s been copy/pasted ad nauseum all over the Interwebs, and About/LearnReligions ended up eliminating it altogether, because reasons. I’ve heard about numerous shops and covens and groups doing this as a public ritual over the years, so if you want to do so, have at it. It’s a little levity in a time of crisis. So, in the interest of sharing something sort of fun—and the gods know we need fun right now—I want to share with you this simply and ridiculous Ostara/Spring Equinox ritual that you can do with…

Patti Wigington