Ostara

Ostara marks the moment in the turning of the year when day and night stand in balance, and the renewal that has been long anticipated since Midwinter finally becomes fully visible; what was promised at Yule and quietly awakened at Imbolc now emerges fully into the open world. Green returns to the land, soil softens and opens, and growth moves from the hidden to the revealed. Creation steps forward, no longer in restraint, but in measured motion toward abundance.

In Jewish terms, Ostara is the season of revelation: The outward manifestation of divine vitality within creation. This is not a moment of sudden transformation, however, but of rightful emergence- steady and embodied- when life expands into creation because it has been properly prepared. The equal measure of light and dark likewise reminds us that holiness is sustained through balance rather than excess.

As the growth of the season accelerates, we are asked to meet the gift of creation with discernment and faithfulness, and called into our divine responsibility to tend it wisely. In this way, Ostara also marks the sacred readiness of the world (and of ourselves) to receive life fully, and to tend it in partnership with HaShem as creation continues to unfold. Ostara thus invites outward motion guided by restraint and care.

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