Greetings friends and welcome.
Welcome to this seasonal journey with the kitchen witch and her garden.
This series,
Similar to my New Moon series,
Is an invitation perhaps to pause in the year to notice the natural world around you and take a short and sweet journey somewhere in between meditation and story and reflection.
These little in-between places are where we may find a little magic perhaps.
So as always,
Take your time.
We're going to take just 10 minutes out of our day and I'll guide you through a few ideas,
Images,
Reflections on perhaps how the kitchen witch's garden may appear to us in this season.
Close your eyes and rest dear one,
For you have travelled far through the seasons and through the year.
Here at Ostara,
The spring equinox,
In the kitchen witch's garden birch twigs begin to bud with catkins under blue skies.
Herbs and flowers grow with the scent and colour of mint and violets.
Hope is in the air.
Through March and April,
Winter crops of cabbage and kale,
Stores of potatoes and apples and root vegetables might be running low.
It is this time when the need foods of hedgerows can be particularly valuable.
Nettles and wild garlic spring up in fresh greens and whites,
Scenting the woodlands.
And come April,
The spring sun shines onto golden treasures.
Bees are producing honey and the hems will be laying their precious eggs.
The spring equinox is a celebration of expanding energy and warmth.
Like the rising sun in the east,
This is a new dawn on a new season.
And every day after today will be longer than the night.
Reason for hope to rise as well.
It is time to step out of the dark winter and the cold and into the light.
Take your time here to visualise perhaps what it is that you wish to grow,
Forage or nurture.
Within this season of growing light and springtime.
Or perhaps you simply visualise your favourite place to be as the colour and light of spring grows.
Perhaps for now it is enough just to be in the space of life and hope.
In your own time stretch the body and wiggle fingers and toes.
I hope you have had a chance to visualise or remember just a little sparkle from springs gone by and a sense of hope for the spring to come.
I thank you so much for joining me on this little journey.
These little seeds that we may plant to look forward to a beautiful spring season.
I wish you a happy and hopeful spring equinox and austara.
Thank you and namaste.
Thank you.
