Welcome dear friends.
This is Sarah and I'm so happy to be back with you again.
This is a special practice for the Spring Equinox and Festival of Ostara.
As always we have space to reflect,
To journal and then set some intentions together for the coming season.
So if you haven't already go grab a pen and paper,
A notebook,
Your journal and then come back and sit down and find a comfortable space to just relax for the next little while together and let's plant some seeds.
If you are here and you're ready as always let's take a deep breath together.
Let's inhale fully and as you exhale see if you can drop your shoulders,
Loosen your jaw,
Relax your temples,
Your eyebrows,
See if you can relax the crown of your head.
Let's just breathe in and breathe out and see if we can make some space.
We shift from winter into spring as the Sun moves into Aries on the Equinox and a new astrological year begins.
Connecting into the rhythms of nature offers a deeper understanding of ourselves,
Our values,
Our strengths and our desires for life.
It helps us to connect ourselves as cyclical beings and embrace the internal and external highs and lows we all experience as we flow through life,
The lunar cycles and the seasons.
The Spring Equinox and Festival of Ostara is a celebration of fertility and rebirth.
As the earth awakes from its long winter hibernation and the first signs of new life appear in nature,
We celebrate new beginnings and all the abundance that is to grow from the seeds we plant now.
Our winter of darkness,
Of rest and reflection has given us insight into new ideas,
Projects,
Goals,
Wishes and the lifestyle that we wish to cultivate.
And we use this time in spring to nurture and tend to the seeds of those plants so that we may harvest them in autumn.
This is practical seasonal magic.
Let's start by reflecting on the season that is coming to an end.
Let's take time now to either write down or just to contemplate what seeds of new ideas,
Wishes or plans made themselves known to you over winter.
As always I will keep an eye on the time for you and I'll come back to you in two minutes.
You are halfway.
Tiny little seeds began to grow over winter.
What is asking to be brought to life now was spring.
What is asking to be brought to life now was spring.
Let's take these little seeds.
Let's think about what we need to grow and cultivate them.
How can we take care of them and bring them to life this spring?
Write it all down and I'll come back to you in two minutes.
You are just about halfway.
What do you need to be able to grow and cultivate your seeds?
Let's look forward now.
Let's take these little seeds and imagine them growing.
Let's think now about what we wish to experience in abundance in summer and harvest in autumn.
What can we begin now that will bloom at the height of summer and that we can feel gratitude for in autumn?
Take two minutes to write all of this down.
What do you wish to experience in abundance in summer and harvest in autumn?
I'll keep an eye on the time for you and I'll come back to you in two minutes.
Let's think now about what we can do to help you grow and cultivate your seeds.
What do you wish to experience in abundance in autumn?
Let's think now about what we can do to help you grow and cultivate your seeds.
What do you wish to experience in abundance in autumn?
You are halfway.
Let's think about all the abundance to come from these tiny seeds.
What do you wish to experience in abundance in autumn?
What do you wish to experience in abundance in autumn?
The Equinox is a time for us to think about the future.
We think about balance.
Equinox means equal night.
Day and night and dark and light are equal.
We think about that within ourselves as well as externally.
We all have dark and light within us and one cannot exist without the other.
But let's think about change and the pure potential of this moment for our creation.
Let's consider now which parts of yourself stop you from embracing the potential of a new beginning.
Write them all down and I'll come back to you in two minutes.
You are halfway through.
Be honest with yourself.
What are the parts of you that stop you from embracing this moment of change?
Let's think now about our intentions.
Intentions are our statement of intent for the coming season.
Let's consider how we want to feel this season and what we need to do,
What qualities we need to cultivate and what action we need to take to make that feeling a reality.
Translate these into positive statements written in the present tense as if they have already happened.
Start with I am,
I feel or I intend to.
And let these be the guiding principles that you live by in spring.
Take some time to write them all down and I'll come back to you in two minutes.
I am,
I feel or I intend to.
You're halfway.
Be specific.
I am.
I intend to.
I feel.
I intend to.
Let's set an intention together now that we will water,
Grow and cultivate the seeds of our intentions in the coming months so that we may experience them in abundance in summer and harvest them in winter.
As always,
You can finish with a thank you.
And I say it is done.
Wishing you a very,
Very happy Equinox and beginning of a new astrological year filled with potential.
Much love.
See you soon.
