Ostara

[ThomasHardmanJr]

This is a lovely retrospective upon the origins of Our Lady in Green. Folks, get out there and be wearing the green on this year's festival, which in this year for the Pagans, the Xians, and the Judaics is all about the same time. Men, dress as you would push a plough; ladies, dress all in green and let your hats be fantastic as so to beguile any who see them to worship with you as is proper in this season of fertility and blessing.

[MsLavenderRose1]

Ostara Blessings to you.XXX

[ladyredsea]

Blessed be

[oshginva]

As a Deaf Pagan, I would like to thank you for creating a video that is not only educational and beautifully made, but also accessible for those of us who are deaf or hard of hearing. I would like to know if I could put this up on my blog - Deaf Pagan Crossroads (google it) - to share with others for the upcoming Sabbat? I'm sure my readers, both Deaf and Pagan, would enjoy it as much as I did. Bright Blessings!

[faeryprincess916]

Amazing as usual! I LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for making and sharing them!!!!

[k1ll3rtr0n]

people used to believe in Eostre where i'm from...

i know some bands that still make music about her :D

[k1ll3rtr0n]

i love ostara :D

it means spring is comming!

[szocske12]

thank you!

[SarahOasis]

Have a blessed Ostara!

[feonawillow]

Wonderful, thank you so much

[ThePaganperson]

Would you all belive that the online game world of Warcraft has an in-game fire festival similar to Ostara 

Blessed be

[dragonflymoon30]

They have a number of 'paganish' holidays. Feb-March was the Lunar festival, then April Noblegarden (Ostara), the midsummer fire festival, and even a harvest feast for maybon, and Hallow's End including a wickerman festival, and one can't forget Feast of Winter Veil for Yule :)

[tuesdaysmoonchild]

This was a great video. However, I had a hard time reading the text because it disappeared too fast for me to finish reading what was on the screen. :(

[TheApt1]

Thank you for your video, my nine year old dughter has expressed intrest in celebrating with me this year. I have added it to a playlist for her to watch so she knows why we are celebrating. Thanks agian. :) )O(

[Elcerritogooze]

My Irish girlfreind of 25 years and I, Find your films 2 B some of the most interesting on Youtube. Definately better than most of the crap uploads.

[Lindasac]

I really enjoyed it! Refreshing and informative!!

Thank you!!

Blessings on Ostara and all her creative powers!

[readrevelations]

Happy Ressurection Sunday. :)

[GothicGirl81]

Blessed Ostara everyone:)

Greetings from Poland

[readrevelations]

Ostara, Ishtar = sound a lot like Easter.

The eggs, the births, the bunnies...

Easter = a celebration of a pagan goddess, not the celebration of Jesus dying on the cross and his ressurection, which a lot of Christians have been tricked into thinking that Easter has anything to do with Christ. It's a way that the pagans have fooled us into celebrating a time that they are worshipping their goddess and fertility. Christians should not participate in Easter egg hunts, giving of baskets, etc!

[51stcenturygirl]

Pagans didn't 'trick' anyone. They had their religion for long time, why would they convince Christians about anything?? They didn't care about them. It was the Christians who were invading and forcibly converting in concurred countries and if some belief or custom was too deep rooted in peoples culture they would incorporated it in they own religion. That way it was easier to force people to become Cristian if it resonated with something they believed in for generations.

[51stcenturygirl]

And if you cross-referenced a little you would see that most dates that are some Christian holiday were at some point a holiday in pagan religions.

I'm not saying that's in not valid religion, not at all but these are just the facts and it's not like it happened for the first time. One religion taking elements from the other, that is. Romans did the same with Greek religion (although more obviously :)

[readrevelations]

That's exactly what I am saying. I have cross-referenced dates and it is a shame that Christians who do not know any better are celebrating pagan god holy days masked as Christian holidays. A huge example would be Christmas. It is not Jesus's birthday, but Tammuz's birthday. Jesus was born during Jewish tax time - approx. September. Tammuz is Nimrod & Ishtar's son who Christians are tricked into worshipping, complete with the yule log... Odin rode around on an 8-legged reindeer. Hmmm...

[51stcenturygirl]

Well if you want 'original' religion who doesn't have any links or commonalities with earlier religions of that region you're out of luck beacuse you shoud go as far as before stone age. I'm just trying to say to you that Cristianty is nothing special when it comes to taking part of other religions in itself. Muslims take from Christianity - Christianty takes from Paganisam, Paganisam - takes from Animisam, Animisam takes from reverence of natural world?

[51stcenturygirl]

Also Jung discovered there are some symbols in subconsciousness of all humans (a.k.a.archeotypes) no matter what their upbringing or country that IMO may have affect on religios sybomolism too.e.g.-black dog -death, strong hero who defients monsters and saves us, snakes as symbols of life and death (or life circle), cross or foursided deities etc.

Of couse you can't accept this arguments if you don't belive that systems of religions are human made not coming from 'above'.

[51stcenturygirl]

I personaly belive that there are some forces and it's up to us to find metaphor and/or form that suits us most to connect with these forces around and in us but that's just me:)

[fitzenstartz]

Very beautiful video. Wonderful art and images. Who is the music by?

[donbearwilkinson]

As mentioned in the credits at the end "Gateway performed by Delirium".

[ozzymanborn]

happy ostara blessed be goddess protect thee from Turkey

[lichtengel60]

Merry Meet

Blessings to U all from Holland to

Ostara The Goddess brings us love and

Flowers of Love

Sacred spirit all around us

Ancient ones who reside here

We're asking now for thou blessing

As kindred in the one we are

[Drekdwerg]

Blessed Ostara

Grtz from the Netherlands

[lindsaylou04]

Happy Ostara everyone!

Great Video. Blessed be!

[gardenspook]

awesome v ideo

[Brytmaiden]

Well done! I plan on posting this to my facebook page on Ostara to help explain the season to my nonWiccan friends. Bright Blessings!

[wiccan4ever]

0.0 thats what ostra is all about, i see. its kinda cool cause i was born on 1 of the 3 days of ostra (i say it like ostra so thats how i spell it.)

blessed be

[WorkOnWellness]

I love Ostara but Samhain is still my favourite!

[knobylob]

im a fan of beltain myself

[beowulfsword08]

Nothing here claimed Eostre as Wiccan. However Ostara is most certainly celebrated by the Wiccans. Please reread the captions as you will see I use the term "many beliefs" in reference to her. During that part I also incerted Nordic art... funny how you didnt notice! : )

Funny how I did notice and as I said Eostre is Anglo-Saxon NOT Norse even though they ARE both Germanic. Freyja is the goddess of fertility in Norse mythology. There is no Anglo-Saxon representation of Eostre in A-S art.

[eirinn2]

This is possibly one of the most beautifully profoundly artistic depictions of Ostara I've seen in a very long time.

Symbolically rich, beautifully creative.

Much, appreciated, thank-you.

Warm Blessings to all.

[beowulfsword08]

Eostre is not a wiccan goddess she is an anglo-saxon goddess. Funny how you don't mention that isn't it?

[BurntPageFilms]

Nothing here claimed Eostre as Wiccan. However Ostara is most certainly celebrated by the Wiccans. Please reread the captions as you will see I use the term "many beliefs" in reference to her. During that part I also incerted Nordic art... funny how you didnt notice! : )

[skullaria]

Most Wiccans I know claim all the goddesses in one way or another. Certainly specific traditions claim cCeltic/Greek/Egyptian ect., but a lot of wiccans are eclectic with the names of the divinities that they follow.

I enjoyed this - thank you. :)

[taliesin939939]

@beowulfsword08 There are no "Wiccan Goddesses." Wicca uses deities from many different pantheons, such as Greek, Egyptian, Anglo-Saxon, etc. Wicca uses many different Pagan pantheons. There is no such thing as a "Wiccan" pantheon. Eostre or Ostara is as Wiccan as any goddess could be. They celebrate Ostara as the festival dedicated to her (the spring equinox). A Wiican goddess? Can you name any "Wiccan" deities? There is no such thing.

[beowulfsword08]

@taliesin939939 first bit of what was said is a quote from another person.......read the second paragraph........ which says that Eostara is an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring!

[taliesin939939]

@beowulfsword08 My bad. LOL. I was thinking that might be the case, but i couldnt find where the comment originated. lol. but seriously, there is a lot of misinformation. especially on youtube. you have someone that never even READ a wicca book doing the teaching role on camara. lol. anyways, thanks for clarifying and blessed be!

[taliesin939939]

@beowulfsword08 A Wiccan goddess? there is no such a thing. Wiccans use different pantheons of deities, but there is no Wiccan pantheon. that is absurd.

[dredlockMiki]

Excellent video! 5*`s

Peace and Light  Miki

[Brooks00000]

Thank you so much for these videos.

They affect us and support us more than you think.

[voiceoftheuniverse]

Nice vid ; )

[Seti3782]

Loved the video , may the great goddess Ma'at bless you

[a2valentine]

i will never look at spring the same again

.. the words seemed to go by so fast, given the richness of the music and powerful images

wonderful!!!

[AwenStormFool]

Awesome!!

[dapillath]

<3 your videos. hope you make more for all the holidays soon! blessed be! :)

[BurntPageFilms]

All videos have credits at the end

[ThirdDegreeWitch]

blessed be ! great video :) whats the soundtrack ? bright blessings to all here.

[OddDom]

very inspired. a favorite! thanks :-)

[grimnus]

Blessings from our South Devon Pagan Community in Devon, England, UK. Great vid!

[skullaria]

Blessed Be! Thanks for sharing this so I could show my friends!

[patchouliandroses]

Blessed Be~ Wonderful video,thank you for the beautiful artistic way you bring the meaning of Ostara to all of us. Once again thank you.

[BurntPageFilms]

Thank You Friend...

[slade83j]

)O( Blessings! I wish I could make a video that well... *keeps practising effects*

I love all your video's, thank you for everything!

[kudasango]

Everything was perfect. Images, timing, wording, music, everything virtually flawless!!!!

[slade83j]

Blessed Be! Wonderful wonderful video as usual and once again. These are beautiful and breathtaking, as well as informative. Everyone who is thinking of becoming a Pagan or old to the Craft should watch your beautiful videos. They're always stunning and I always learn something from them. Congrats to you BurntPages. Many many thanks for this beautiful film.

[lmosack]

Blessed ostara to you to,love the video,i also like how you or they do the graphics.