Celebrating Spring: Customs and Traditions

Workshop by Selena Fox
Circle Sanctuary Welcome Spring Festival 2017
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Spring Time

• Spring Equinox  - astronomical start of Spring aka Vernal Equinox 
• Spring Forward - Daylight Saving Time in USA, second Sunday in March
• Spring Weather Time – meteorological Spring starts on March 1 (northern hemisphere)
• Spring Calendar Start – some old & contemporary Pagan paths, some other religions
• Spring Break – in March & April, depending on school system, region
• Spring Equinox Tides – days leading up to date of Spring Equinox (March 20 this year)

Spring Signs

• Birds – migration patterns, nesting, eggs
• Greening Land & Budding Branches
• Spring Ephemerals
• Lengthening Days

Spring Symbols

• Colors – pastels, greens, yellows, purples
• Ostara/Eostre Eggs, Baskets, Rabbits/Hares
• Flowers, Seeds, Seedlings, Pussy Willows

Spring Cleaning

• Cleansing thresholds
• Airing interiors with opening of windows & doors
• Home cleaning & rearranging, Garage sales 
• Gardens & fields planting & growing preparations
• Personal Reflection, Assessment, Purification, Re-patterning

Spring Planting

• Selecting, blessing, planting Seeds indoors and/or outdoors
• Planting Spiritual Seeds for personal & community growth

Spring Divinities

• Ostara/Eostre
• Deities of Resurrection – Dionysus, Persephone/Kore
• Foliate Deities – Jack in Green, Green Gods & Green Goddesses

Spring Rituals

• Decorating home, altars, shrines with Spring symbols, offerings
• Inner Journeys for Release & Renewal
• Balancing meditations, rituals, lifestyle changes
• Egg Hunts, Games, Balancing, Choices Divination
• Nature Meditations, Walks, Divinations
• Spring tonics, greens, rejuvenation
• Festivals, Bonfires, Feasting, Revels, Community Celebrations
• New beginnings, innovation, new clothes & ways