This is the day popularly celebrated as the beginning of Spring. Of course, depending on where one lives, Ostara may find you still shovelling snow, or the cherry blossoms may have come and gone already. On this day light and dark are of equal length. It is a time to celebrate growing things and to ask for blessings for the projects we launch after a winter of planning. This is the last of the Spring fertility festivals, and Spring is well established.
Flowers are in all stages of blooming, being pollinated, and involuting to form fruit.
The year is in its adolescence, and this is a time for love and union. It is a time of union, and rites may involve physical union or work for greater harmony among the parts of a whole. It is no coincidence, I'm sure, that we celebrate Father's Day at this time. It is a time of dry grasses and wonderful long evenings when everyone sits in the cooling air outdoors. Fruits are forming all around us, promising a rich harvest .