- Symbolism: purity, growth and renewal, the reunion of the Goddess and the God, fertility, dispensing of the old and making way for the new.
- Foods: dairy products, curries, onions, chives, seeds, herbal tea, mutton or lamb, poppyseed cakes, muffins, scones, and breads, onions, garlic, raisins, spiced wines.
- Herbs: angelica, basil, bay laurel, blackberry, celandine, coltsfoot, heather, iris, myrrh, tansy, violets, and all white or yellow flowers.
- Incense and oils: angelica, blackberry, iris, myrrh, vanilla.
- Colors: white, yellow, light green.
- Stones: amethyst, bloodstone, garnet, ruby, onyx, turquoise.
- Animals: robins, burrowing animals, sheep, lambs, deer
- Mythical creatures: firebirds, dragons
- Some appropriate Goddesses: all flame and virgin/maiden Goddesses; Anu (Irish), Artemis (Greek), Brigit (Irish), Dahud (Breton), Dumuzi (Sumerian), Frigg/Freya (Norse), Frimia (Teutonic), Gaia (Greek), Hestia (Greek), Inanna (Sumerian), Iduna (Teutonic), Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian), Juno (Roman), Kebehut (Egyptian), Minerva (Roman), Laufey (Teutonic), Lucina (Roman), Vesta (Roman)
- Some appropriate Gods: all flame and love Gods; Adonis (Greek), Bragi (Norse), Cupid (Roman), Diancecht (Irish), Eros (Greek), Februus (Roman), Frey (Norse), Osiris (Egyptian), Tammuz (Assyro-Babylonian)
- Decorations: candles, lamps, brooms, yellow flowers, Brighid’s Crosses, priapic wands (acorn-tipped), evergreens.
- Traditional activities: a besom is placed by the front door to symbolize sweeping out the old and welcoming the new, candle lighting, searching for signs of spring, making Bride’s Beds, making priapic wands, feasting, spring cleaning.
- Spell/ritual work: blessing of seeds for this year’s garden, fertility and purification, consecration of agricultural tools, initiation, transformation, beginnings.
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