The spell of the maple sap and the fertility ceremony

  As Matthew goes into the woods and taps the maple trees to get from them the sap, the most pure essence of the earth, I am traveling to Halifax to give a workshop. In my packing I included a jar of this vital sap with the intention to sip it during my work hours to maintain the level of minerals in my body. I knew little as yet about the energetic impact that this sap would have on me and the real nature of the goddess behind it.

As I began to sip it my body began to experience a particular high, not very familiar to me. I felt in my central channel a rush of joy and agony.

As I tune in deeply with it, I can reach an understanding of purity. That liquid had never been in contact with the light, it had been dwelling in the core of earth for a period of time, and in this particular time of the year was coming violently to the surface looking for life, looking to finish it’s stage of stagnation, looking to mate, looking to unite and originate life.

That purity makes the sap very receptive to the energies of the first person or element that makes contact with it, and I was recognizing the energy of Matthew in it. I observed how the hand of my lover loves me, and naturally my body responded by preparing a receptiveness towards a primal force of union.

It was only a few days later, after my return from Halifax,

that I started to have the real call from the goddess, OSTARA. As I continued taking the sap and the already boiled syrup, a more concrete form of the energy started taking place. It is this series of events that started to contribute to this awareness and ritual. I was carrying on conversations with the beings that live in the water,  preparing me for the retreat of the fluids and emotions. I am praying to them to give the information I need to mature our physical and energetic structure for ascension. Also, I was teaching in the online course the need to avoid sexual fantasies to prevent misplacements of the earth bodies, as well as maintaining the integrity of our nature as a way to be protected.

As I meditate in sadhana with these elements and keep drinking the sap, a strong pull to do a puja (devotional ceremony)came into my awareness. It was a ceremony to be performed on March 21 at sunrise. It is a ceremony to mark the passage of time as well as call for new life and fertility. It is a ceremony to celebrate OSTARA the goddess that awakes at this time of the year. It is that natural force to unite and give an opportunity for our creative forces to be manifested.

She comes as fertility, receptive to any thing that she encounters, She comes in a shape of an egg, luminous, magnetic and attractive. She is clear and pure, young and old at the same time, she is celebratory and adventurous.

She comes at night when her strongest emanations are.

She resides in the womb of the devotional one, she looks for a space that is available for growth, she fulfills, and she is unapologetic in taking the whole being into her life inductive spell of sensuality. She plays in the small streams and in the running waters, she dresses in blue and silver and decorates herself with a fragrance of earthly blossoms. 

The only choice we have in front of her emanations is to take her energy and transmute it to the highest frequency possible. You can choose to use it just to dwell in sensual fantasies and create a spinning of desires. You will then open a dating list within your mind and enter a cycle of powerful desires that eventually will make you move out of your neutral and centered space. You also can be constructive and direct it towards selfless prayer and service. You can chant, you can dance, you can create and gain a perspective of self- renewal.

You can also consciously create a sacred space to honor such forces by creating a ceremony where you acknowledge her power, her desires and her sacred medicine. Then you will receive her gift, a tender awakening to the most soft and tender aspects of creation.

It is in here where I get speechless, it is here where the mind can not describe this part of the divine, it is here where I stop and let a tear of love roll down to an intimate smile of silent meditation.

Ceremony to OSTARA

Choose a place outside or in your prayer room to be dedicated to this energy. Decorate it with spring blossoms and flowers.

You need the following symbols:

• Representations of the phases of the moon, (you can draw them or make them in silver paper, make sure you have the representation of the waxing crescent moon, the first quarter, the full moon, the last quarter and the waxing crescent)
• Two raw eggs.
• Color, paint and decorate the eggs. (If you want to get pregnant use only red color on the eggs.)
• Marker pen in case you want to put a yatra (a balanced symbol) in the egg.
• A branch of spring blossoms in a vase.
• One bowl.
• A pasta plate and a egg holder inside of it.
• Cinnamon stick.
• A white candle.
• 2 tsp of maple syrup.
• A tsp of yogurt and a pinch of chilly pepper.

How to perform your ceremony:

1.- Decorate your altar with spring blossoms, the moon cycles. Place your intention. Light the candle.

2.- Decorate one of the eggs, and place it in the egg holder inside the pasta plate.

3.- Break the raw egg into a small bowl, add the maple syrup, the yogurt, and chilly peppers and stir it with the cinnamon stick as you chant 3 times OM.(this mix is the food for the spirit of OSTARA)

4. Think of a stream of pure water, connecting with it’s flow, agility and adventurous nature. Make it personal by establishing a parallel with your present situation in life.

5.-Take the mix , and with a little spoon offer some each time you chant this prayer. “ I surrender to you divine grace of Ostara, life and love you are. I am one with you, I am you and you are one with me. I am a humble cell of your grace, health and wealth”.

6.- When you have finished the entire mix, wash the egg and place back to the altar. Take the bowl outside and pour into the earth with reverence and with the intention to encourage fertility.

7. Keep the branches as fresh as you can as long as you can. One moon cycle is good.

After the ceremony we left the site and fell sleep. That evening I was granted to see the gifts and problems that the underwater world, in this moment, are experiencing. I saw how a simple ceremony can impact the nature of the unseen, and how an attitude of gratitude can be regarded with awareness, creativity and beauty.