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☽ Sisters ☾ Ostara Altar: Pick 3!

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☽ Sisters ☾ Ostara Altar: Pick 3!
Group:Sisters of the Moon
Swap Coordinator:KuriPie (contact)
Swap categories: Seasonal 
Number of people in swap:5
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:February 12, 2016
Date items must be sent by:February 26, 2016
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Hello Sisters!

To celebrate the Spring Equinox, we will be having a pick 3 swap to decorate our Ostara altars! [Or just plain decorate, for those of us without altars.]

Requirements: You will be sending three items that correspond with Ostara to your partner. At least one of the three must be handmade! Be as creative as you'd like with your handmade item, s'long as it corresponds with the themes of Ostara. Please make sure all three items are different [ie., don't just toss in one card, one recipe, and one drawing. Vary it!] and the cost be between $15 - $20. You could also include a lil note with your SB name & the swap's name, and perhaps a brief explanation of the items you've included.

Your options can include but are not limited to: flowers, seeds, baby animals (!!!), items used in Ostara spellwork, candles, handwritten recipes, etc.

Here are a few general ideas that I wrote up for a blog post on decorating your Ostara altar last year~ hopefully you can use it as inspiration for this swap!

'Ostara is one of only two days in the year when the day and night are equal [the other being Mabon]. At the Spring Equinox, the dark and light are in perfect balance, with exactly twelve hours of each. From then on, the light grows ever stronger, increasing every day until it reaches its peak at the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.

Because of this unusual state of symmetry, balance is one of the magickal themes for this sabbat. Not just between darkness and light, but balance between male energy and female energy, and the physical world and the spiritual world. Ostara is also a fire festival, in honour of the return of the Sun, and a fertility festival that celebrates growth, rebirth and new beginnings. These aspects of the holiday make it one of my favourites. To me, Ostara is all about potential: the potential for balance, within and without, and the potential for growth, renewal, and the possibility of a new start.

Deborah Blake, excerpted from Llewellyn’s Sabbats Almanac.'

One week to sign up and two weeks to send~ That will give us three weeks from the last send-by date until the Sabbat, so hopefully the packages will arrive on time =) But, we have no control over the postal service. Please ensure to rate your partner a 5 as long as you receive a package sent by the send-by date that follows the swap's instructions.

Blessings!

Discussion

Tiffaknee 02/10/2016 #

Wowsers! We have essentially the same swap up. Even the same picture. Interesting... Lol.

urocyonfox 02/10/2016 #

Eep! I signed up for this swap on the gwe and then saw this posted and thought it was gwe swap since it had the same image and description. I signed up thinking maybe I hadn't clicked ok for the gwe swap or something, I didn't even realize it was two separate swaps. I will have to pass this time as I don't think I can do two of the exact same swaps at this time, sorry.

KuriPie 02/11/2016 #

@Tiffaknee lol ikr? I thought it was hilarious when you hosted your swap a few days after me =)

Tiffaknee 02/11/2016 #

Hmm. Yes quite hilarious of a coincidence. I'm in your group and never got a message about this swap. I checked my messages from you and I have all of your group messages (I never delete my inbox) announcing all of your swaps up except this one. The last one I have from you was Feb. 1st stating two new e-swaps. I had no knowledge of you creating this and surely could have come up with a different kind of Ostara swap for my members (and you, you're a member) had I received notice that you made yours, first, if that's what you're saying. And I'm quite sure I sent out a group message about my swap to you about this. I could have taken it down had you told me you already made a version of this. I thought wow, I guess great minds think alike? I remember when I started creating Sabbat altar swaps for my group with a "pick 3" theme to them a few months ago and them being really successful because it was a new version of doing altar swaps on SB. And we have decided to do pick 3's for the Sabbat's since. :) All Pagan groups on here have done altar swaps, but I got a lot of great feedback from other swappers when we suggested expanding on it by letting the partners choose their own items to send from a list. But then again, I got the "Pick 3" idea from a mail art swap, too. It's always fun when you make things unique to your groups. :) I'll be sure to make sure our swaps aren't too similar anymore from now on, because I don't always get messages about them and don't check if a swap exists before I create it. And this way, any members we might share have the opportunity to join different swaps in different groups. Regardless of the odd mishap, I'm happy to see that people are enjoying the ideas and joining swaps. =)

KuriPie 02/11/2016 #

@Tiffaknee actually, the only thought in my mind was that we're on the exact same wavelength. I was going to message you about how funny that we chose the same pic [The very first row of 'Ostara' in Google images'] after your group message, but then I decided nah, it wasn't such a big deal to me =) We've always known we think pretty similar, don't we?

Tiffaknee 02/11/2016 #

I know, I know. :) But I'm a super sensitive empath and just wanted to clarify that I had no idea this existed, and don't intend for you to have less members in it because they joined mine, or vice versa. I really was astonished at how similar we type, etc. When I saw yours, I said to myself, "yup, that was the prettiest picture in google images, and the two, light and dark hares for stability is perfect." And I don't know how to tell what dates swaps were made, so I sensed that you may have perceived tension in my comment in thinking it was meant to be "competitive" or something when it was truly just a funny discovery for me. Just wanted to clear my air. It's all good, sistah.

KuriPie 02/11/2016 #

Ahaha Tiff, I know! There's definitely no hard feelings on my end. Whenever we chat we're like 'I was thinking the exact same thing', so I wasn't too surprised to see we had a similar swap thought up!

However, I hadn't realized your group was specifically doing pick 3's for Sabbats. I just chose that for Ostara because I was entirely too lazy to think up something complex like last year's garden swap [on Q&P], and pick 3's are pretty easy to do =) So I've decided on a different way to do Sabbat swaps from now on~ sending ya a message!

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