A Wicca Spell Using Menstrual Blood

Ive read the first linked article, by Peg Aloi, and found it to be entertaining, though not scholarly. Read the rest at your own risk.

http://www.amysticalgrove.com/Celebrate_. the Ostara page from A Mystical Grove. While the information on this page is a little slim, there are links on the left-hand side to a few ritual outlines and poems.

http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/she. Gingerbread Grandmas Ostara. Scroll down a bit for a few crafts

allow you mind to become accustomed to the feeling.

When you are ready place your hands around the plant, about 1 inch from it. Some use only their receptive hand (the non writing hand) while others use both. It is best to use both in the beginning to see which is actually the receptive hand. Some are energy ambidextrous, using both hands equally to sense energy.

Place your hands around the plant first. letting the energy to flow from it to your hands. Notice the feeling from it. Dont be up

The date of Easter floats, as it is held on the Sunday after the first full moon following the Equinox. Easter is a culmination of Lent, and the celebration of Christs rebirth. Ostara is a celebration of balance and fertility.

And now, those obligatory links:

http://www.witchvox.com/holidays/xostara. a listing of five Ostara articles submit

Modern Heroes
We all have different perceptions of right and wrong, and most of us in the Pagan community tend to be fluid on the issue. "There is no right and wrong, there is only balance; there is no evil but intolerance…" But where do we draw the line? When does the effort to be tolerant become the method of self destruction? When does the worry of harming none become so consuming that it harms.

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Unless you are “He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken,” I don’t think you have anything to fear from Harry Potter. And yet, there appears to be a large number of people who have this irrational fear of Potter or, more importantly, of witchcraft. I find this fear unfathomable. Most recently it has come to the forefront in Gwinnett County, where Laura Mallory is trying to have the Potte.