Ostara: Customs, Spells & Rituals for the Rites of Spring

by Edain McCoy

Book Overview

Celebrate the Awakening Earth at the Spring Equinox Embrace Ostara as a point of balance in your life, a moment in time where both dark and light and night and day are in harmony before the light is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738700827
• ISBN13: 9780738700823
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I am really enjoying this book. Any ideas, great stories, nice addition to any pagan home.

Absolutely Charming

If you ever wondered where Easter bunnies and Easter eggs got their start, this book will tell all. It's loaded with folklore, stories, fun projects and is the most fun you'll ever have reading a book. It's a blast to read. It's as lighthearted as spring itself.

Great for all levels!

Edain McCoy is one of the best authors on the team of Llewellyns staff of Witchery. This is one of her best books as well. The spring equinox is one of my favorite times of the year. One cannot go wrong when the yearning for youth is inherent in all of us. This book provides the reader with all the lore and legend of this splendid time of the year. From spring flower magic to some great recipies that I have tried and wonderful lore of fairies! One simply cannot go wrong. Ms McCoy has much experience under her belt. I remember her earlier work in the 1980s! True, to the purist out there there are many flaws. My comment on this is "let us see you do a better job". Enjoy it for what it is: a book about a magical heart!

Great for just learning

I'm just learning about the Sabbats and this was the first one I came across on Ostara so I really enjoyed it. There are lots of stories of history, celebrations, discussion of things like the easter bunny, the birds & the bees etc - oh, and fairies. The parts I enjoyed the most were in The Goddesses of the Awakening Earth chapter - it has all sorts of neat goddess stories, things to do like burning incense to honor the godess of spring. There are some great riruals for Ostara like the balancing and centering ritual - made up of rhythmic breathing.

Edain McCoy has brought us a breath of spring...

Author Edain McCoy has brought us a breath of spring air in her new book Ostara! With legends and lore, spells and rites, crafts and recipes, all for a wonderful experience in bringing in the spring season. Incorporate the spring celebrations of the ancients in with our modern traditions. Give honor to our Deities, and celebrate in the blessings of the earth as the wheel of the year turns once again! Pagans and Christians alike, no matter your beliefs will find Ostara not only enlightening but also enjoyable. All while finding commonalties and similarities to which you will be amazed. If any book could bring unity, but for one day, it would be Ostara. Wouldn't that be a glorious day indeed! M.L. Benton, Publisher, Echoed Voices.