Sweet Ostara Harvest

The spring equinox has come, and under a strawberry moon, she gathers her harvest of the sweetest strawberries. She is up early, just as the moon is preparing to set, and today will be devoted to sweetness and growth.

This day is as long as its night, and there is a feeling of harmony flowing through her as she cannot resist eating some of her harvest and offering what remains to the faeries. Earlier she saw a husk of hares, sacred to the Goddess. They were still, gathered in circle, staring at the moon, and she knew this to be a symbol that the flowering time is near. Life is sweet, sensuality is keen, and her senses are awakened and alive. It is as though her body is singing, the heady sights and delicious smells of spring make her dizzy with longing for love.

For now, she feels her own fertility rise, and the longing to be a creator beginning. She may not create a babe, for yet a lover is to come, but she feels pregnant with ideas and inspiration as if she is inhabited by a muse whose purpose is to awaken her every skill, every dormant talent she left sleeping for too long. And from this moon, the light will increase with each day ... the light is in its ascendance, and she will do all she can to live awakened, no longer asleep to the beauty of the world, nor to the pleasure of being alive.

Reconnecting to vitality. Feeling invigorated and inspired. Ready for action, love, creativity, laughter, and joy. A desire to move and dance with the rhythms of the earth and her creatures. Caring for young ones. Caring for your own inner child. Bright, sparkling, warm energy. Curiosity. High engagement and interaction with the world and Nature. Inhabiting Nature, gladly and fully.

Sluggish energy. Feeling too old for love or as if your time has already passed. Falling for the myths about growing older. Unsure of your value as the years and seasons pass. Seeing the beauty, but refusing to sense everything — to smell, to taste, to feel. Denying the pleasures of the senses. Mistrusting your own body and physical experience. Wishing to be disembodied.