The Hare Moon

    This is the moon for the month of April.  As the moon grows to fullness, the Mother grants the earth fertility.  The fields grows green and lush,  flowers begin to bloom and the animals everywhere begin to breed.  Especially rabbits.  Hence why this month the full moon is known as the Hare Moon.  The need for reproduction rises high, as the animals want their families to grow.

    The fertility of this month is within us as well.  We feel a need to be productive, and many people begin their spring cleaning at this time.  We need to eliminate the obstacles in our lives, so that we may reach our goals more successfully.  The Goddess calls to us, and in return we feel her love in the air around us.  With joy and happiness, we welcome the Mother.

Things to Do for the Hare Moon:

• Wear soft greens, yellows, and peaches to symbolize happiness and fertility.

• Decorate your altar with pictures of bunnies, spring flowers and greenery, or anything else that strikes your fancy to represent joy and fertility.

• Use green and yellow candles and burn a Full Moon incense at your esbat ritual.  Or use a fruity incense such as strawberry, peach or coconut.

• Asperge your Circle with a bouquet 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 for the faeries to live and tend.  They will build homes as well as bring a bit of magick to your garden.  Be sure to invite 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.