How to Set Up Your Ostara Altar

Ostara is the Wheel of the Year holiday that honors the first day of Spring and the Spring Equinox. There are many ways to celebrate this holiday, but one is to fresh up your altar with the colors and symbols of Ostara.

Ostara invites us to embrace themes of fertility, growth, and renewal. The themes of spring! Your altar can be a vibrant space to honor these energies, celebrate the balance of light and dark as well as the changing season, and set intentions for abundance and fresh beginnings.

So, consider taking a moment to spring clean your altar and work with it to create a space that reflects the holiday as well as your personal connection to this time of year. Below are some correspondences and inspiration for your sacred space:

What To Include On Your Ostara Altar

• Wheel of the Year: Your own design or a disc like this one
• Candles: Green, pink, white, and other pastel-colored candles
• Symbols: Eggs, hares, butterflies, and seeds to represent fertility and new growth
• Spring Flowers: Daffodils, tulips, violets, honeysuckle, and clover
• Incense or Herbs: Lavender, chamomile, mint, and rose
• Offerings of Traditional Foods: Eggs, honey, bread, and lemon
• Personal Items: Any meaningful objects that align with your intentions for growth and transformation

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Ostara Altar Ideas

Below are some altar ideas other witches have created for Ostara. Let these inspire you as you decorate your own and prepare for holiday rituals.

If you’re looking for a collection of altar items to simplify the process, Of Smoke & Soil offers items for each holiday on the Wheel of the Year including Imbolc and Folklorica Designs has gorgeous carved candles in their Etsy shop.

1. Portable Egg and Crystal Altar

This altar utilizes an egg carton to make it portable and as the creator explains, they “added candles, crystals (moss agate, garden quartz and strawberry quartz) and we grew cress in egg shell which are symbolic of ostara and the new season.”

2. Symmetrical Spring Colors Ostara Altar

This stunning altar incorporates a circular design reminiscent of the wheel of the year itself and a symmetrical design made with crystals, candles, and spring flowers.

3. Eggshell Altar

To make this simple altar, the person turned eggshells into candles and oriented them in a circle around an herb blend.

4. Season of Renewal Altar

The witch who created this space full of candles and spring flowers says they “collected beautiful flowers around my neighborhood and adorned my altar with all the crystals I intend to use for my season of growth and abundance.”

5. Deeply Symbolic Altar

At first glance, this altar looks simple, but the witch who made it incorproated many Ostara symbols into the design. She explains, “Ostara to me is a playfully joyful time of celebration and I enjoy having that reflected in my altar decorations and ritual prep. 
Below is a list of some correspondences for Ostara and what items i used to represent them: 


• Pastel Colors – baby blanket I’ve had for years, light pink place mat, and light colored candles
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Incense/Oils – Jasmine stick, Sandalwood, and lemon 
• Animals – Ram, Rabbit, Chick, & Butterflies
• Food/Drink – Egg shells (which will be ground into a powder mixed with sea salt on Ostara) and lemon water mixed with moon water
• 
Herbs/Plants – small bouquet of Daffodil, Daisy, and Violet 
• Crystals – Rose Quartz, Green Aventurine, Citrine, and Carnelian. 
• Cauldron – Pink Himalayan sea salt and Rosemary

• Tarot Cards – Fire of Ostara six-card spread by Nancy Hendrickson
• Elements – river rock & bird feather


6. Sweet Altar

This delicate, romantic altar is adorned with beautiful candles, her grimoire, and a print of Persephone, the Spring Goddess who is celebrated at the equinox. She says of her altar, “today I made lavender tapers and little eggshell candles in preparation for Ostara. They’re lightly sprinkled with Dittany of Crete flowers, rose buds, jasmine, and lavender.”

7. Norse Altar

This altar is made from a single egg filled with Ostara incense and decorated with runes.

8. Crystal Altar

This sacred space is rich in crystals, and also incorporates a Himalayan salt lamp and a sweet planter shaped like a bunny.

9. Witch’s Altar

This altar has all the witchcraft essentials: candles, a cauldron, a chalice, a pentacle, an athame, skulls, and a crystal wand, all on top of a wooden altar carved with the words “so mote it be.”

10. Norse Pagan Altar

With its egg cup, pastel candles, and ode to the Green Man, this altar is emblematic of the holiday and the season.

11. Wise Altar

Essential Witchery adds some sage advice when sharing her altar for the holiday. “Ostara Blessings. Day and night, light and dark are now in perfect balance. The sun is beginning to burst through and bring new life, so now is the time to plant your seeds, physically and metaphorically.

Write down your intentions, bury them in some soil (indoors or outdoors) and sprinkle on some seeds or plant a plant. Watch it grow along with your intentions. Manifest what you want to achieve! But remember, as you need to water the seeds for the plant to grow, put the effort into your manifestations. You’ll never win the lottery without buying the ticket…”

12. Dark Altar

This shadowy altar with its pretty chrome eggs could also be relatively easily recreated in a closet or space if you’re in the broom closet. Just use battery-operated candles for safety.

13. Ostara Grimoire and Offering

This witch showcases her pretty grimoire opened to her page on Ostara with her altar filled with daffodils and an offering of chocolate eggs.

14. Nature Altar

This nature-forward altar features a (hopefully) found nest at the center along with sculptures of Slavic and Norse gods, tarot cards, and symbols of the season.

15. Spring Altar

Your altar can look different every year if you wish. The woman who created the Norse Pagan altar for Ostara made this version two years before.