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Learn to COOK - Ostara: Customs, Spells & Rituals for the Rites of Spring
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.262
EAN: 9780738700823
ISBN: 0738700827
Label: Llewellyn Publications
Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Studio: Llewellyn Publications
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Celebrate the Awakening Earth at the Spring Equinox
Embrace Ostara as a point of balance in your life, a moment in time where both dark and light and night and day are in harmony before the light is victorious and carries us on to the bounty of summer pleasures. Ostara is packed with rituals, spells, recipes, crafts, and customs to celebrate the awakening earth.
This delightful guidebook will help you deepen your understanding of the spiritual aspects of this ancient spring holiday, and discover new ideas for expressing that spirituality.
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Summary: Great book
Comment: I am really enjoying this book. Any ideas, great stories, nice addition to any pagan home.
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Summary: Absolutely Charming
Comment: If you ever wondered where Easter bunnies and Easter eggs got their start, this book will tell all. It's loaded with folklore, stories, fun projects and is the most fun you'll ever have reading a book. It's a blast to read. It's as lighthearted as spring itself.
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Summary: Great for all levels!
Comment: Edain McCoy is one of the best authors on the team of Llewellyns staff of Witchery. This is one of her best books as well. The spring equinox is one of my favorite times of the year. One cannot go wrong when the yearning for youth is inherent in all of us.
This book provides the reader with all the lore and legend of this splendid time of the year. From spring flower magic to some great recipies that I have tried and wonderful lore of fairies! One simply cannot go wrong. Ms McCoy has much experience under her belt. I remember her earlier work in the 1980s!
True, to the purist out there there are many flaws. My comment on this is "let us see you do a better job". Enjoy it for what it is: a book about a magical heart!
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Summary: good info, horrible editing!
Comment: since i am relatively new to paganism, i found this book to be informative... the most interesting part for me was when she discussed the cultural heritage of the easter bunny, the egg, spring break, new easter clothes, etc. she also gave some good ideas for ostara rituals.
however, i will agree with another reviewer, the book is badly edited. she will address a topic in one chapter, and then several chapters later, she will address the same topic, and use almost the exact same wording. (and pictures!)
be wary of the recipies. her recipe for hot cross buns is very vague, i had to add about an extra cup of flour, and i kneaded it, even though she didn't say to. not paying attention, i followed the recipe exactly for the frosting: 2 cups powdered sugar, i cup orange juice, and got a runny mess. then i realized that they probably meant one *tablespoon* of orange juice. (next time, i'll try the hot cross buns in the red plaid better homes and gardens cookbook)
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Summary: Great for just learning
Comment: I'm just learning about the Sabbats and this was the first one I came across on Ostara so I really enjoyed it. There are lots of stories of history, celebrations, discussion of things like the easter bunny, the birds & the bees etc - oh, and fairies. The parts I enjoyed the most were in The Goddesses of the Awakening Earth chapter - it has all sorts of neat goddess stories, things to do like burning incense to honor the godess of spring. There are some great riruals for Ostara like the balancing and centering ritual - made up of rhythmic breathing.
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