Ostara: Creating New Pagan Family Traditions

by Jodi Lee

Ostara is also known as the Vernal or Spring Equinox, Eostre, Alban Eiber, Bacchanalia, Lady Day, and Festival of Trees. It is celebrated on or about March 20-23, depending on the lunar cycle.


The Vernal Equinox is the official first day of spring, exactly six weeks since Imbolc, so really it doesn’t matter whether or not the Groundhog saw his shadow; spring officially begins now. The light and dark, feminine and masculine are equal; the energies of earth, sky, water and air are balanced perfectly.

Genres: Paganism

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First published February 11, 2012

About the author

Jodi has been writing and editing professionally for a decade, dividing her time between her own WIPs and those of her public clients. She is the publisher/EiC of Belfire Press and The New Bedlam Project.

Currently she and her daughters are working together to create a series of non-fiction chapbooks for new pagan families, based on the Wheel of the Year.

Over the years her non-fiction has appeared in Shroud Magazine, Necrotic Tissue, Apex Digest, The Beltane Papers, The Blessed Bee, newWitch, Noneuclidian Cafe, and the Michelle Belanger-edited collection, Vampires – In Their Own Words.

Her short horror has been included in the magazines Nocturnal Ooze, Night To Dawn, Necrotic Tissue, Monsters Next Door Road Trip Issue, and the anthologies Horrorology (Twisted Library Press), War of the Worlds Frontlines (Northern Frights Publishing), Fifty-Two Stitches (Strange Publications), The Black Garden (Corpulent Insanity), Tainted (Strange Publications), Parasitic Thoughts (The Parasitorium Group), and Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (Graveside Tales) and as part of Rhada McKai in Courting Morpheus (Belfire Press).