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3/27/2009
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Pagans Celebrate The Arrival Of Spring With Ostara Ritual
Author: Magdalena Wegrzyn Source: Longmont Times-Call (CO)
Title: NO SPECTATOR SPORT
Kat Lindgren used a flat feather to expertly fan burning sage over the small huddle of pagans gathered Saturday in the backyard behind her Lafayette home.
As the pine scent settled over the circle and the sun started to set, Lindgren — a clergy-level Wiccan priestess — began the Ostara rite, a pagan ritual that celebrates the spring equinox and honors the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, also known throughout history as Astarte and Ishtar.
Ostara builds on the theme touched on during Imbolc, a high holy day that took place in early February this year.
Imbolc means “in the belly” and celebrates the time between the spring equinox and winter solstice, when the land is “waking up,” Lindgren said.
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| Educating Non-pagans | Mar 28th. at 3:52:33 pm EDT
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Katarine Anu (Lafayette, Colorado) - Email Me
The journalist that wrote this article spent a very long time with each of us trying to understand and have a reference of what this Rite was about.
She was sensitive to the needs of those that did not want to be photographed or interviewed.
As a lifetime practicing Pagan it is amazing to me how very little is known about our different practices in this day of open communication and even the internet.
This journalist truly was completely unfamiliar with much that was shared with her, but she kept an open mind and did the best she could with the information that she had been given, much that completely overwhelmed her.
She went out on a limb to cover this Rite in a publication that generally addresses Christian and Jewish events. We thank her for sensitivity and interest in presenting our spirituality in a positive manner.
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