Ostara 2002

Many of you have said you didn't know what was inside the article, until you visited each and every page. Following is an index of articles, hyperlinked, and which page you can find them on. Just click on the index item itself to read the articles:

SECTION 1 - HOLIDAY LORE
Ostara Ritual of The New Greening - MoonSongstress
Ostara Astrology - Jeri Noble
March 21st Down Under - AWDU
Ostara Word Search - Isha ArrowHawk
Assorted Recipes and Crafts - Judith Lewis
Pagan history month announcement - Pamela H. Bell
Rites of Passage - AWDU

SECTION II - BOOK REVIEWS
13 Lessons for Pleasing the Divine By Lady Raya - Reviewed by ~ G. Rain
Witchcrafting By Phyllis Curott - Review by Lorelei
The Sacred Round by Elen Hawke - Review by ~ G. Rain

SECTION III - FAMILY ISSUES
Promoting Pagan Family Values - Selene Silverwind
Goddess Flag craft project - Raven
WOMONGATHERING - 6/6-6/9, 2002 - Ashling Kelly
New Yahoo group for Illinois Single Pagans - Jamie

SECTION IV - THE CAULDRON - PART 1
Appreciate - Lorelei
Awakening - Gina~
Balance and Grounding with the Goddess - Memory Red Wolf
Mystic Moon - ~Rain
Michael and Beth Chronicles - Selene SilverWind
Isha's Beginnings, and Lessons Learned - Isha ArrowHawk
Can I speed up my progress? - Kim Robertson
Earth - MoonSongstress 
Mangos - tsingtao

SECTION V - THE CAULDRON - PART 2
Healthy Addiction, Depending on who you ask! - Raven
Loving Myself - Lorelei
The Boy Who Cried "Sick!" - Kathryn Dyer
The Question - Rev. L. Shepardson
Sometimes people come into your life - Author unknown
Life Lessons - Kim Robertson

Ok, here we are at the egg, bunny, beginning time of the year. When trees and flowers start blooming, and trees start budding. A great time of the year if you've had a really hard winter, which we haven't here in the NYC area. Oh well .... we'll pay eventually I'm sure. :-)

Out of the 29 articles we have in this major issue, only two or maybe three were time sensitive which is in my favor. :-) I want to thank each and every one of you that has stuck by the Ezine during my health problems, personal problems, and just general problems. I promise things will get better. They have to. And there's a reason ..... An I'll tell you what it is now, and it's our grand announcement. :-)

You'll notice that the third article on the web site, and the forth article in the newsletter doesn't have anything to do with Ostara, but actually deals with Mabon!! We've all heard and learned that the Southern Hemisphere deals with things the exact opposite as the Northern Hemisphere, but we've never really thought of it. We've forced fed the Northern Hemisphere practices down their collective Paths. Well, no longer. Diogo Lana Monte-Mór came to me with this idea, and it finally dawned on me that we weren't serving our readers the way we promised. Cauldrons and Broomsticks is the first publication that I know of that will have a totally separate staff, Ezine, and writers to cater especially to the Southern Hemisphere!! We are now World Wide!!! To subscribe, send mail to Cauldrons-Broomsticks-South-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Two separate Ezines, two separate staffs, and *tons* of the best writers in both areas of the globe!! We have most of the foremost writers from Brazil and Australia waiting for our flagship edition that will include all of our regular articles but with a slant to *your* particular holiday, and a very powerful staff that is *more* than excited about this project. With Brenna Fey D'Amaurot getting them started, they can't help but win. This will be the start of Cauldrons and Broomsticks Worldwide. We will be publishing two separate Ezines for two separate parts of the world with two different staffs. Both under my control as Editor/Publisher/Owner. The first time this has happened to this degree. And of course, it will still remain free of charge, I will continue to pay all fees, and everyone will have access.

Anyway, that's our grand announcement. We're now World Wide. Cauldrons and Broomsticks Worldwide! For now, enjoy your belated Ostara edition. Due to my recent surgery and complications, this is the soonest I could get it out. I'm very sorry.

In this issue, you'll see a birth of a beautiful and wonderful new series from Isha Arrowhawk, and the end of the Michael and Beth Chronicles. Selene Silverwind has promised to continue with a new series, and I'm hoping she'll start back up with the much beloved Fiona and Julian series. This is just one of her thoughts. Anyway, we have a full packed Issue, and to go through it one by one would take forever. The original articles in this issue stand above many of our other Issues. All I can say is ...... enjoy. Stay with us, and see what happens next. :-)


Blessings, warmth and love ....
Midnight Grey Wolfpup
"The Wolfpup"
Editor/Publisher/Owner
Cauldrons and Broomsticks Ezine Worldwide
http://www.cauldrons-broomsticks.net/