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Blessed Ostara
Back at Imbolc, it was decided by the Grove and our guests that our Ostara feast should be focused on floral flavors (possibly my favorite feast theme of all times). However, usually we write the ritual, and then, if it's appropriate, set a related feast theme. This time around we had to reverse-engineer a ritual that worked with the already-chosen feast theme. Ostara is the vernal equinox, and the official start of spring. It's also the point in the Wheel of the Year where
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The Language of Flowers
I first encountered the idea of floriography, better known as "Victorian flower language," in A Victorian Grimoire by Patricia J. Telesco . The editing, formatting, and general tone betray the book's early 90s origins, and it doesn't cover any particular area in any depth. Of course, the Victorians had an obsession with mythology and the occult, so perhaps it is not reasonable to expect a single book to contain all there is to know about every piece of Victorian culture th
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