🌸 Blessed OSTARA - Happy Equinox - Hello Spring 🌸 + Seasonal fantasy photography and Music
The word Ostara comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess name, Eostre who represented spring and new beginnings, the Equinox, and now on longer days and shorter nights. This is a time of renewal and growth. We need to "align ourselves with our purpose, prepare to grow and embrace the light"
The Equinoxes take place when the length of day and night are the same, so in the Northern hemisphere, now on we have longer days.
Vernal Equinox 2023, photo from my phone
As I do all along the "Wheel of the Year" I love to share these dates that marks the beginning of all seasons and midpoints, and the endless cycles of nature.
So here is a selection of some of my seasonal photography and music (some have been shared separately) but here is a curated selection of some of my Spring pictures. These are from previous Springs, but as once more we are back Which one is your favourite?
Above: Daffodils, heralds of the Spring, among the first ones to bloom. Symbols of renewal and also of friendship. During Victorian times they were pressed into letters for your friends.
Spring rising... everything is tender and waking up from its slumber.
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In Greek Mythology Goddess Persephone was kidnapped by Hades, King of the Underworld, as she was tricked to eat a cursed pomegranate's seeds, she had to agree to remain in the Underworld half of the year. When she emerges, Spring unfurls.
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Above: Bear Garlic fields
Above: Idunn, Spring Goddess in Norse Mythology, the keeper of apples and granter of eternal youthfulness providing immortality to the gods. Apple trees were the symbol of rebirth and beauty. The Apple tree is sacred in Norse mythology.
Above: Vesna is a mythological early Slavic goddess associated with youth and Spring
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Above: Dandelions meadows. The underappreciated early flower is important to sustain bees during early Spring. They're also edible from bloom to root.
And as we move forward into full bloom, our next stop in the Wheel of the Year will be Beltane, which means "white fire" and it's what we call May Day, when Spring peaks, so then I will share another compilation of Spring photography then.
21 of March was also National Day of...
21st of March was not only the beginning of Spring.
ps. As a curiosity, 21st of March has been also WORLD POETRY DAY, WORLD PUPPETRY DAY and WORLD COLOUR DAY.
And remember as I ALWAYS say (to the point of repetition because it's a lesson of Nature to me) there always comes a time to bloom and grow. So keep going!
Some of my Spring Music
🌸The energy of Spring is contagious and inspiring. As an artist, it's a time of renewal and growth Flowers bloom, leaves unfurl, such a powerful affirmation from Nature. I have several songs for this time of the year. Which one is your fav?🌷 on 🎵
Here a reminder if you don't remember them (each one has had a separate blog post on hive when they were released)
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This picture is today 21 of March, 2023
Tomorrow I will share a new song and video
The following days I'll share a blog post about a song I've just released, Everlasting Clarity, and besides that one I'm finishing a second Spring video I hope to have ready before the month ends.
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I recognized 3 of the things on the wheel Yule, Beltain and Samhain but the rest are all new to me.
Beautiful photography btw and the videos have great production value.
I'll take a listen to your back catalogue of music. It looks fascinating 🎶👍🏼
Thank you so much, I usually like to make articles of these dates as the flow of seasons is something recurrent in my work as musician. And also a lesson from Nature, there always comes a time to grow as I say. Thanks for listening too. I'm on Spotify as well as Priscilla Hernandez
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4VYQXDVxNNr4kGMv6cR8W1
Hello Priscilla,
I like the idea of marking the seasons with articles and music. It does give a flow to the creative process. Nature is the best teacher.
Indeed, Nature is a neverending source of wisdowm and we humans, in our entitlement tend to ignore it but will in the end not be able to overwrite it
True, nature will exist whether we are here or not. Nature is unaware of us.
I heard you tell a fairy tale and there are pictures of beautiful flowers that make me happy and want to read more.have a great day.
Thank you so much. It is my favorite part of the year I feel like I'm Waking from slumber. It's being a tough time for myself so I'm still willing to stretch into the light and bloom, and I do hope to add many more pictures to the spring collection in this new friend
Thanks for appreciating and Happy Spring! :)
Amazing photos and welcome to the Spring. Thank you for sharing those exciting aspects of Ostara!
Time to bloom and grow, I really feel like I'm awakening from slumber. I had missed the light of longer days
Incredible costumes!
Thank you, as I love to film in Nature for my music I tend to dress in earthy colours or seasonal colours, you never know when the forest provides you the perfect backdrop to weave fantasy
I too prefer the outdoors for photographic work. So many of my clients expect a studio, though, which can be frustrating!
I am above all a nature lover and a musician, I'm not a model but I love filming my music videos and sometimes even do my own garments for them. I think I'd feel shy in a studio XD but in the forest I'm certainly myself "on character" or so they say. that's the reason I'm usually barefoot in pictures or hiding my feet under medieval garments, I'm a practical girl wearing hiking boots hahah :) and quickly fixing some make up in the rear-view mirror of the car XD. I'd love to try some more complicated make up or props for a studio because certainly some things requiere too long to consider them practical to film out. So we just enjoy the location and scout places to film our scenes if they match with the idea and concept of the song.
Generally the best way to go for locations! Boots, then barefoot! I photographed a client the other week who got married with enormous, comfortable hiking boots under her wedding gown! :D
Smart girl, one gotta be practical :)
Comfortable is the way
and light gear to carry ;-) I cannot be carrying suitcases of garments LOL, the craziest I've done is to bring the harp along ;-) Now, seriously, keep it fun
I'm learning to take lighter and lighter gear with me to the locations I like shooting. :D Its the hills that kill everyone (including me) on their way to the spots.
I miss doing primarily outdoor portraiture work in /my/ style. So many people want the light-bathed, golden hour, orange and blue images, whereas I prefer to be more dark green, gold and violet in my palette.
It is a niche; which means I still have to do my day job to pay the bills.
Yes, lighter gear means the possibility of wandering further. For me it is about being practical thoughlet's admit my work would benefit from a camera upgrade. All my gear is aging, and tgey become better and lighter
Yes, I know niche is both good and bad
In music my following will be more faithful, you are generic, but also small size audience. All is balance I guess
I would upgrade lighting before upgrading cameras. :) But lights are heavy and expensive. It is a constant arms race.
Sis, you only know how to welcome and admire mother nature and all the seasons of the year. Truly amazing...
Aww thanks so much for the compliment. I love this time of the year and really I feel like I've been "slumbering". I think Spring is a lesson from nature, that even if winters are harsh and bare there always come a time to bloom and grow again
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