Ostara and Easter
I just got finished making my famous devilled eggs. My dad is cooking up chicken and homefries for Easter dinner. I have some red cabbage and onion skins to dye some eggs later, and may use cantip leaves as decoration since I don’t have much available in the way of botanicals.
Yesterday the Grove celebrated it’s Ostara High Rite, and boy was it awesome. Several of us have been gathering before ritual to do small projects and such, and for this High Rite we decided to gather pinecones, plaster them in homemade peanut butter, and roll them in bird seed for the Nature Spirits. We hung about 30 of them all around the sanctuary as an offering.
This ritual was completely dedicated to the Earth Mother, kinda like a surprise birthday party for the Earth Mother. Everything in the ritual was organic and/or sustainable, from the offerings to the tools we used. Nothing plastic. Even the string we used to hang up the pinecones was made of cotton.
Most of the offerings were various forms of grass seed since the sanctuary is becoming fairly muddy and pitiful as far as grass is concerned. I happened to invite the Nature Spirits for this particular ritual.
I’m not sure what the omen was, as it was kind of confusing. I guess I’ll wait for the Seer’s Guild to interpret it.
I conducted a small auction of goods at the Grove during revels after the High Rite. I donated $86 worth of goods, which those particular goods raised over $109 (more than half of the total raised) for the Grove. Our grand total raised was $200.25, not bad for a small auction that wasn’t really pushed all that much.
One of my goals as Senior Druid has been to alternate every High Rite between a Fundraiser and a Charity. Our Imbolc High Rite was for the Lakota Blanket Drive (which I will get a total count of blankets next weekend), and Ostara was an auction Fundraiser. For Beltane we may do a book charity drive. So far keeping up with this project has been fairly easy 
Today is going to be finishing up small projects around the house and relax spending time with my dad for his Easter.
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