Esbat Lore

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The Hare Moon

As the Hare Moon grows to fullness in the sky, she grants the Earth limitless fertility. Lawns and meadows green with new life. Garden flowers blossom and wildflowers thrive. Even the animals are busy. The need for reproduction rises high, for it's time for their families to grow and thrive.

The fertility of the Hare Moon grows within us as, too. We feel the need to be productive, to carry out plans, and to weed out the obstacles that keep us from reaching our goals. Her potent energy calls us to plant and fertilize our spiritual gardens as well as our physical ones. And, of course, love is in the air. With lightened steps and happy heart, we welcome Her coming.

Hare Moon Ideas:

• Wear soft greens, yellows, and peaches to symbolize happiness and fertility.
• Decorate your altar with pictures of rabbits, spring greenery and flowers, or anything else that says joy and fertility to you. 
• Use green and yellow candles and burn Full Moon incense. Alternatively, burn a fruity-smelling incense like strawberry, peach or coconut. 
• Asperge your Circle with a bunch of wildflowers. 
• Weather permitting; hold your Circle outside in a garden area. After your Circle, pull any weeds and set out any seedlings, plants and flowers. With each planting, chant:
  • "Grow, my friend, so very small. 
    Grow until you're lush and tall."
• When planting, don't forget to leave a small patch unplanted and unweeded if left alone, the faeries will tend this section, build homes bring magick to your garden. Offer the section to them by saying: 
  • "Faeries, elves, and magick ones. 
    I offer you this spot undone. 
    To live and tend, to laugh and play. 
    Please bless my garden everyday."
• Serve sugared violets (violet flowers first dipped in egg white and then in sugar) or lemon cookies, and strawberry wine or Kool-aid for libation. 
• Bless seeds with qualities you'd like to invite into your life, then plant them. For example, if patience is an issue for you, try saying something like:
  • "I name you patience - grow in me,
    As you grow here. So Mote it Be!"
    • Tend and water the seeds, as they grow, the quality you want will grow in you.