The Barbed Pentacle: March 2012

Squeeze My Melons and Plow My Furrow, Part 4

Happy Ostara!

I'm sorry that this post is tardy. I got quite caught up celebrating the reason for the season by making love and partying.

Eggs are often associated with Ostara, particularly fresh chicken eggs. Contrary to what a lot of people think, eggs do not pop out of a hen nice and clean. They are often really nasty.

Why are eggs often nasty? Look where they come from!

The eggs that you buy in the store, even supposedly farm fresh ones, have been blasted with water until there's nothing left of the hen on them. Also contrary to popular belief, hens do not have to have mated to lay eggs. Hens will lay eggs in spite of their virginity (egg laying snakes are the same way).

Mounted while mounting!

There are lots of different things that you can do magically with eggs, besides dyeing them (which I'll cover shortly) and ovamancy (the many different ways you can divine with an egg--and there is more than one way!). Eggs are often used to represent babies, so it's only natural that eggs can be used in both fertility spells and abortion spells. For both types of spells, it's best if you use fertilized eggs (which you usually don't find at the supermarket but you may find at the farmer's market--just make sure to ask), but you can use an unfertilized egg for the abortion spell, especially if it's performed during the first month of pregnancy.

To make a baby, take a fertilized egg, and dress it (rub it) with your and your partner's sexual fluids and blood (just prick your finger). Then write down all your wishes for a baby. Wrap the paper with your desires around the egg. Bury the egg in the ground under a body of water. Make love with one another to seal the spell. Make sure to time this spell with ovulation.

This just seemed like a good abortion picture.

To abort a baby, first meditate and make sure that this is what you want to do. Once it's done, it's done, and this spell doesn't always work in the way that you think it might. Take a fertilized egg, and dress it with the pregnant woman's sexual fluids and blood. Then break the egg into a cauldron (symbolizing the cauldron of Cerridwen), and say something along the lines of: Take back this gift. Let the womb release the human fish in its bubbled seas. Unclench the gut. Let the gut. Let the birth run out that none may be hurt in flesh or heart. Muse, Powers, Spirits, Beings of Light and Fire and Poetry, grant my thought your power to act; I pray that she may be in all ways granted mercy. Finally, bury the remains of the egg. This spell can be done in conjunction with taking herbs to cause an abortion.

Hen fireworks are good to use for spells dealing with other types of fertility, especially when you need something quickly and dramatically.

Fresh laid, fertilized eggs contain a life energy that you don't get with the typical egg from the supermarket. Besides the vibrant hues of the shell and the lusciousness of the yolk, eating them makes you feel a wonderful joie de vivre. My favorite way to eat fresh eggs is barely cooked and super runny.

It's like sex on a plate with a ray of sunshine! It's my favorite pre-sex and post-sex food. I could eat them everyday with toast and never get tired.

"Song of Spring Time"

Why is Ostara associated with eggs? Spring is a time of extreme fertility, and eggs are a universal symbol of fertility. In some European countries, brides were given decorated eggs as a way to give them symbolic fertility. In other places, the farmer's wife would give the hired hands bowls of eggs to ensure that they sowed and reaped a rich harvest. Eggs were dyed and decorated to ward off evil in many homes. Although eggs symbolize fertility, it goes much deeper than that. Fertile eggs are where the soul resides, which is why egg spells tend to work.

How to Naturally Dye Eggs from Your Kitchen:

Add 2 tsp of white vinegar to boiling water, and any of the following ingredients--

Red/Pink-- Strawberries, paprika
Blue--Blueberries, red cabbage
Purple--grape juice concentrate
Yellow--onion skins
Gold--purple onion skins, curry powder, turmeric
Beige--tea or coffee grounds
Light green--chopped frozen spinach

Allow the dyes to simmer in separate pots for 20 minutes, then strain, and dye your eggs.

Egg Color Meanings:

White:

Purity

Yellow:

Wisdom, a successful Harvest, or Spirituality

Green:

Spring, rebirth, wealth, youth, growth, happiness

Blue:

Good health, clear skies

Orange:

Power endurance, ambition

Red:

Happiness, hope, passion, nobility, bravery, enthusiasm, love

Brown:

Enrichment, good harvest, happiness

Purple:

Faith, trust, power

Pink:

Success, friendship, love

Black:

Remembrance

Symbols are often added to dyed eggs by drawing out designs of wax on the egg surface before dyeing.

The following are Pysanky (Ukranian) egg symbols:

Nets and baskets: Containing knowledge, motherhood, giving life and gifts.
Rakes: Successful harvest.
Sieves: Separating good from evil
Ladders: Searching, rising above the petty, ascending to heaven.
Combs: Putting things in order. Plants: Rebirth and nature. Very popular symbols.
Trees: Strength, renewal, creation, organic unity, growth, and eternal life.
Leaves: Immortality, eternal or pure love, strength, and persistence.
Flowers: Beauty, children, female principles of wisdom and elegance.
Fruit: Continuity, good fellowship, strong and loyal love, love of the Divine.
Sunflowers: Motherhood, life, love of the Divine.
Wheat: Bountiful harvest.

Waves for wealth, rain.
Lines and ribbons for the thread of life or eternity.
Stags: Leadership, victory, joy, masculinity.
Horses: Wealth, prosperity, endurance, speed and the motion of the Sun.
Rams: Leadership, strength, dignity, and perseverance. Ram's horns symbolize strong leadership, dignity, and perseverance.
Horns: Mobility, wisdom, triumphs over problems, and implies manhood and leadership.
Bear paws: A guardian spirit, bravery, wisdom, strength, and endurance, the coming of spring.
Birds: All kinds, are messengers of the Sun and heavens, pushing away evil, fertility, fulfillment of wishes, good harvest.
Bird Parts: (eyes, feet, beaks, combs, feathers) carry the same meaning as entire birds.
Roosters: Good fortune, masculinity, coming of the dawn.
Hens: Fertility. Hen feet offer protection for the young, and guidance.
Goose feet: Symbols of soul or spirit.
Butterflies: Ascent of the soul, pleasure and frivolity of childhood.
Spiders: Patience, artistry, industry, healing and good fortune.
Fish: Abundance, sacrifice, and regeneration.

Many people view dyeing eggs as a children's activity, and it is. However, there's no reason why you and your partner can't make each other into Ostara eggs. Body painting/dyeing is an ancient practice that is very easy to do. If you're up for the complicated, you can use henna, woad, or kumkum powder, all of which will be covered in future blog entries.

For the easy, just use paint. Many different paints are approved for use on the body, including tempera and acrylic, both of which are fairly cheap and easy to find. As you would for your Ostara eggs, incorporate color magic and coordinated design symbolism for the intent you want to accomplish. As always with fun bed room activities, seal up your magic with sex.

Since it's Ostara, try integrating vibrating egg shaped toys into your play. There's lots of companies that sell all varieties and sizes of the eggs. Just shop around and find the one that looks fun. It can be your special Ostara toy!

May you have a wonderfully raunchy Ostara!

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Extras

Friday, March 30, 2012

Squeeze My Melons and Plow My Furrow, Part 7: Guerrilla Gardening, Squatters' Circles, and Urban Foraging

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Squeeze My Melons and Plow My Furrow, Part 6: Nothing's Better on a Cracker than Aphrodite's Oyster!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Squeeze My Melons and Plow My Furrow, Part 5: What Zombies Like to Eat

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Blessed Be Thy Feet: A little something extra--reposted from Path Of An American Traditionalist: Washing Away the Past: A Spell for New Lovers

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Ostara is like a fresh laid egg: sometimes clean, sometimes bloody, sometimes shitty, but always warm!