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33. Ostara & The Springtime Vibes
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Give me the moon.
Can you feel it in the air?? Much to our relief, the season is changing once again, and we got together to chat about our favorite springtime memories and the new traditions we love to take part in to honor the spring equinox.
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Hosts: Christina Bell & Molly Wilde
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Editing: Molly Wilde
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Audio Quality and New Tech
00:00:29
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Ladies and gentlemen, Christina's butt.
00:00:34
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It's squeaky tonight.
00:00:39
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What are we talking about, Molly? You may perceive a slight shift in audio quality. Yeah, it's it's actually extra.
00:00:52
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I'm so hot. It's extra, extra.
00:00:57
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i'm so extra Yeah, you might perceive a slight difference in audio quality. And weirdly enough, the microphone is not new.
00:01:10
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Although it's one that I haven't used myself yet. We used it over Thanksgiving because it would connect to your computer and it wouldn't connect to mine. i was like, what do you what do you mean?
00:01:24
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ah You belong to me, microphone. Why won't you connect to my computer?
00:01:31
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But this past weekend, i acquired myself a new laptop.
00:01:39
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And so now the microphone is like, yeah, I'll work with this laptop. It was fine with it.
00:01:47
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So I'm using different mic and and I'm using a different computer. And so, yeah, might be a little crisper. I'm not sure.
00:01:59
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haven't fully listened back yet, but it's fun. New tech is always fun.
00:02:07
Speaker
haven't I haven't been able to watch your unboxing video yet, though. Oh my god, you literally were the one that asked for it. i know. and then And nobody else said said anything. And now I feel stupid for having done it. So fuck you.
00:02:24
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no like it's just, I don't know. Everybody ignored it. Like by the time I found out like they didn't like it. Sorry. By the time I found out that you did it, it was like I was in bed. And then today all day, I've just completely forgotten about it.
00:02:38
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Well, that's weird because I literally told you I was about to do it when I was doing it. Yeah. I don't know. Sorry. I just, there's too much shit going on all the time around here. i know.
00:02:51
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I knew. But I will. Good. So.
Spring Traditions and Ostara
00:02:58
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We're talking about Ostara. Ostara.
00:03:03
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Yeah. It's like the pagan Easter. um Rather, Easter is the Christian Ostara. There you go. Yeah.
00:03:15
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My bass-ackwardness. e
00:03:21
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Yeah. um Historically, spring has not been my favorite holiday because I have not been a fan of pastels.
00:03:32
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right
00:03:35
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my attitude has softened a little bit about pastels, even though I still want mostly no nothing to do with them. um But they do herald the coming of the warmer months, especially when the pastels start popping up in nature.
00:03:57
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So as a witch and as like an appreciator and a I mean, I was about to say worshiper, but I'm not sure if that's exactly the right word. But like ah as a participant of the Wheel of the Year, I've gained an appreciation for spring for being the thing that ah comes to take winter's place.
00:04:18
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Oh, goodness. That is a great description. Yep. And admittedly, too, i didn't really have a problem with winter while I still lived in Virginia. Mm-hmm.
00:04:31
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Um... i yeah ah Virginia's winters are pretty mild. But yeah, coming to Massachusetts, it is a very chronic thing.
00:04:45
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Seasonal depression. Yeah, it's big here in Michigan as well. Oh, yeah. it's ah And it's like as much to do with like the wintertime and the cold as it is to do with the dark.
00:04:59
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Yeah, I could imagine that.
Winter's Impact and Daylight Savings
00:05:01
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Because for us, it's not the dark, but it's the overcast skies all the time. They're like, right? Yeah, great, great. It's like all the time. Right, exactly. It's like, uh,
00:05:12
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it's the shortness of the days because here i don't know i guess we have not really we have like a slight difference in the sunset and sunrise times because of you know you being on the back end of the for eastern time zone and me being on the front end but like i think the we're about the same latitude right sort of yeah pretty close just about i might i might be a like slightly more further north Oh, you think you're north?
00:05:40
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I think I might be a little further north. No, we're basically at the same latitude. So I think that like despite the sun sunset and sun rising times being different for us, we have the like same length of day.
00:05:59
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Even in the darkest times.
00:06:04
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You're muted again. What the... Oh my god, I'm sorry. i just moved... I moved the arrow off the microphone thing so it won't do that if it gets touched again.
00:06:15
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okay. I was like, how does that keep happening?
00:06:21
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Yeah. Today's just not our day, dude. oh Yeah. How you doing with the ah daylight savings, by the way?
00:06:33
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um You know, for me, I never really pay attention to it. I don't really notice it. I guess you wake up so early it doesn't make a difference, huh? I guess. It was not easy.
00:06:46
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Waking up, what time was it?
00:06:51
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6.15ish yesterday that I woke up. 6 or 6.15. And it was pitch black. And, you know, last week when I woke up at the same time, it was already bright out.
00:07:05
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I keep reminding myself the sunrise is getting earlier faster now. Yeah. So it's not going to take long to get back to that point.
00:07:16
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Right. But. I know. Yeah. Now the way that I notice it is when ah get to school and it's already light out.
00:07:29
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And then now this week it's still dark when I'm getting to school. Yeah. Is it when you when you get to the first pickup place? or um so not even the first stop of the day? No.
00:07:43
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Yeah. No. The first stop is is a house, a kid's house. So like last week I was getting to the school and it was light out and it was like, you know, 7.20 or 7.30 or whatever. o And then today I get there and it's like dark still. Yeah.
00:07:59
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right yeah yeah yeah because your sunrise like about an hour behind me that's right so that's when i notice it and then of course at night like yeah now it is dark out now um but it's still like i can still see
00:08:21
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well i mean i can still make out like The outline of trees, which means like it's not all the way, probably not all the dark yet. Yeah, it's like twilight. Yeah, it's it's darker than twilight, but it's like, yeah, it's yeah it's close to being totally dark.
00:08:36
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Yeah, because our sunset was about 6.50 p.m. today here. So it's been an hour and a half almost yeah since the sun went down. Tomorrow the sunrise is supposed to be 7.03. Woo! woot.
00:08:51
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<unk> Maybe I'm a little too obsessed with that. But it doesn't matter. I want the sunshine. want it.
00:09:06
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For real though.
Favorite Flowers and Easter Memories
00:09:07
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um Let me ask you a question. Hit me with it. Hit me baby one more time. I don't know if I knew this or not already. So tell me what is your favorite flower? Ooh.
00:09:22
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Okay, i think that I think that you should know. probably should. And so i want to I want to give you an opportunity to guess. Oh, boy. There's so many different kinds of flowers. i don't know if I could.
00:09:34
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ah I'll give you a hint. Okay, don't make it obvious. Don't make it obvious. Well, I mean, with your memory, I'm not sure if I can make anything obvious. Fuck off! Fuck off!
00:09:47
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don't be an asshole molly
00:09:52
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you know i have to say it's not really my age that is the problem it is no the amount of bullshit that is constantly going on in my life that is the problem they call it mom brain there's that's part of it yeah yeah no but like but i but i will say I'm thinking quickly before i prove myself incorrect, but it's the only flower that I have tattooed on my body.
00:10:20
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oh What's the flower that's at its peak around my birthday? Oh, duh, sunflowers.
00:10:29
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was thinking of all the tattoos and for some reason I completely forgot about that one. That's one of the biggest and beautiful ones you have on you. It was the most expensive one.
00:10:41
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ah ah paid over $500 for it. Wow. There's a lot of lines. Yeah.
00:10:49
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It also hurt really fucking bad. But it was worth it. It was totally worth it. ah Yeah, yeah. I should have known sunflowers. I should have known. um Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's not really a springtime flower. But I guess I will say like a sentimental flower of the springtime from childhood were daffodils.
00:11:08
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Hmm. And I don't even really like yellow. Right. Like, I like the kind of yellow... of a sunflower because it's like, um it's like a darker yellow. um Daffodils are again, pastelly, but you know, daffodils sprung up so much around my neighborhood growing up, just like not planted, just wild.
00:11:31
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you And so like, as they would spring up in the springtime, there would be so many of them. And I remember frequently, As I would walk home from the bus stop in the afternoon, just like picking tons and tons and tons oh and bringing them home and putting them in like a vase or vase.
00:11:52
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I don't know. Is that pretentious to say vase? Whatever. Yeah, i'd I'd bring them home, put them in a vase. And then the next day I'd walk home from the school bus and there'd be just as many just popping out.
00:12:07
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So were they always... to be full of daffodils. They were either yellow or white. I was going to say, are they all yellow or are there some white ones? Mostly yellow, some white. I stuck to plucking the yellow ones because I felt like the white were too rare.
00:12:24
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ah Maybe if there was like a bunch of them, I would allow myself a white one. But... Well, you didn't do any harm because what happens when you pick the flower, as long as the leaves remain...
00:12:38
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Yeah. Then the bulb can re regenerate. Right. Exactly. So you're fine. Yeah. It was always, i would like follow the stem all the way down, like close to the ground, but like exclude the the leaves and the, you know, the rest of the plant. Right.
00:12:57
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And only pick the stem. Got it. Good. You're cool. You're good then. And it does, is this, is this a sign that I've always been a witch?
00:13:09
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Yeah, but because I love tulips and um say same similar type of deal with the bulb that's in the ground. and And I learned that as long as the leaves remain and they are allowed to like wither on their own and, you know, go back, you know what I mean? Go back into the earth, if you will. Like the nutrients of the leaf apparently goes back down into the bulb or something.
00:13:31
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But if you like cut the leaves off, then that bulb will probably die is what I understand. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. and i and I used to say but tulips were my favorite flower.
00:13:44
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And I'll be honest, at this point, I don't even know if that's still true. But I haven't picked anything that's more likeke favored, if you will.
00:13:55
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But I do love tulips. I love that they come in so many colors and stuff. Agreed. i also like tulips. They're also very reminiscent of spring for me.
00:14:06
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for sure very like again it's all relating back to like easter and us having grown up in the mormon church easter is like equally a big thing for mormons um so there's you know all of that sentiment as well as like the traditions of like did your family do like easter baskets growing up and easter egg hunts and things yes yeah yeah The Easter eggs, Easter egg hunts where were just like in the house for me.
00:14:38
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um they I didn't go to like big gathering, social gathering type ones. um But yeah, just in the house and I would have to go around and find all the eggs and stuff.
00:14:49
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Which was Yeah. um my favorite thing i think my favorite part about easter if i'm going to go way back to like being really young uh i always enjoyed getting a new easter dress and shoes and getting dressed up for easter for easter sunday that was fun Yeah, I never was a pastel person, even when I was a child. So i didn't care for but Easter Sunday dress so much.
00:15:17
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um Maybe when I was like three, i was into it. But like, as soon as I started having my own tastes, I didn't care. But um and I never really liked the Easter Bunny.
00:15:31
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Like the the but the mascot, you know, like the dude in the furry costume. We did have like the occasional, but particularly when I was younger, like go to the mall, take a picture with the Easter Bunny.
00:15:46
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Same as or or if we were at an event where there was the opportunity to take a picture with the Easter Bunny. I was not really into it. Yeah. santa's a little easier to deal with but so like a real dude you mean you can see face it's not like he's a human there you go right yeah but yeah i was just like no which makes me wonder like i mean i i never went to disney world until i was like 13 but like makes me wonder if i would have been equally uncomfortable with like all the mascots and characters at disney world uh with the ones that you know
00:16:23
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like Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and stuff. Yeah. um But that's besides the point.
00:16:30
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Yeah, we did. We did Easter baskets around the house where it was they hit them and we had to find them. And it was funny when there was more than one of us to look because.
00:16:42
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we we were all looking all around the house and sometimes we would find the ones that we knew were not for us and so we would yell you know across the house like I found so-and-so's and then run off in another direction just remember that being funny because it's like different than like and with an Easter egg hunt you can literally just pick ah pick up whatever egg you find but you had to be discerning about whose basket was whose when you found a basket.
00:17:13
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You know what's so funny, dude? Like, I remember, like, one of the common themes of Easter egg hunts in my house were that the parental figures would always forget how many they hid. So then you never know if you got all of them or not. And like, they were actual like hard boiled eggs, then they might be sitting there for obscene amount of time.
00:17:34
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Oh, that's bad. Might not smell so fresh, but no, honestly, I don't remember ever finding any old grody ones like weeks later or anything. Yeah.
00:17:46
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So I'm pretty sure that I've always found all the ones that there were to be found. it was always like my mom going, I don't remember now. Was it eight or nine? don't know. You know what i mean?
00:17:58
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Yeah. Yeah. It's like, why don't you just keep it simple and do six every year so you never have to remember like how many. Oh my God. For real. Yeah. for I, that reminds me, have you gotten to the point in Gilmore Girls, and I know you don't, like you're not like constantly or consistently watching it, but like, have you gotten to the point where they do organize an Easter egg hunt in the town and they do lose track of how many eggs were hidden?
00:18:28
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I don't think so. It doesn't sound familiar. Oh, it's hilarious. So tell me if you, I don't know how many times you've watched the show, like to have it like sort of memorized like timelines and stuff, but.
00:18:40
Speaker
I don't remember when. Okay. I don't remember what season it would have be it would have been. Okay. um I was going to say part. It would it be easy to look up. and Okay. But. ah The part that I'm in. Because they don't.
00:18:53
Speaker
Sorry, go ahead. It's okay. It just, um basically Rory just got accepted to Yale. okay And that bed and bre for that but the hotel that her mom works at burned. And so like they're trying to figure out what to do with it.
00:19:08
Speaker
And then it was Lorelei's birthday and they had like the biggest piece of pizza ever or the big, biggest pizza, like not like yeah world record status, is but like giant pizza. Yeah.
00:19:21
Speaker
Yeah. So like that, that, that, that's the timeframe right now I'm in and it's in season three. okay yeah um i don't remember what year it was or what season but i don't think that they do an easter i don't think they had like an easter celebration every year or they don't show an easter celebration every year so it won't be like you'll you'll know it when you see it Yeah, it doesn't sound familiar, but then again, i don't remember the prior two seasons because it was so long ago that I started watching the show.
00:19:58
Speaker
Right, yeah. I might have just forgotten about It was probably after that, but like it was definitely you know because they forgot how many eggs were out there to be found, and they hid them too well.
00:20:11
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i Suddenly, the whole town started to smell like rotten eggs. Ew! I know. That does not sound familiar, so I don't think I've seen that yet. Yeah. That's hilarious. So you'd, like I said, you'd remember if you'd seen it. But I bet you anything that, you know, if we're talking about reality here, like random animals would be finding the eggs and eating them before they would ever get all
Community Celebrations and Easter Timing
00:20:33
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stinky. Oh yeah, for sure. For sure.
00:20:36
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Sorry. No, you're right. You're absolutely right. But of course they needed the bit of Kirk. ah being obsessed with making sure he found all the eggs. Oh my god, that's so funny.
00:20:48
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Yeah. yeah That kid's character is hilarious. Oh my god, he's so great. but yeah. um
00:20:58
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Did you guys ever do ah did you do coloring Easter eggs? Yes. Dyeing them. Those would be the ones that my mom had hidden. Yeah.
00:21:10
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Mm-hmm. Yeah. I guess we did occasionally. um cause we always dyed them every year, but we didn't always have like an Easter egg hunt at our house just with our family.
00:21:25
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But if we did, we had them outside. oh okay. So that way, you know, if we did leave any eggs out, cause that's when she would use the hard boiled eggs. Yeah.
00:21:37
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Um, they would be outside and not inside. But makes but they ah one of our neighbors would host a massive Easter egg hunt for the whole neighborhood every single year.
00:21:51
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And that was always a fun time. I think you may have mentioned that to me not too long ago. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it might have been, there might've been footage of it when uh we watched the yes home video footage over over thanksgiving yeah because there was definitely well there was definitely footage of when i was like two looking for easter eggs around my parents backyard right but that was before the neighborhood that i mainly grew up in right right this was like yeah from like
00:22:27
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three or four onward it was um just this this neighbor had like massive backyard with a pond and lot of trees and just like god so many so many eggs and they would always use the plastic ones with candy in them um And we always, of course, because it was like they were always hosting it, they were there it was their eggs.
00:22:53
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You know, we would always gather up as many eggs as we could find, but always open them and empty out the candy into our baskets so we could return the eggs before we left. How cute.
00:23:05
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Yeah. And there was always it was always potluck style, too. So tons and tons of food and just a lot of fun. Woohoo! I like honestly was so, so lucky with the neighborhood that I grew up in just being so focused on community and making sure because there were a lot of kids in the neighborhood.
00:23:25
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so like they were always making sure like there was good events for holidays that the kids could be able to participate in. And honestly, the Halloween parties were always the best ones.
00:23:43
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i always I always liked those. But ah easter the Easter egg hunt was always a close second. I wanted to say, I think this is hilarious. Because i earlier I looked up, I just googled Ostar Odyssey, what Google would tell me.
00:23:56
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Oh yeah. And it's ah you know it's March 20th this year, and which is probably right every year. Which is the reason that we're releasing this episode at this time. Right.
00:24:08
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And it's coinciding with the equinox, the spring equinox. Yeah. um Which is what? Also the first day of spring. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:19
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So the funny thing that I'm remembering now is that Easter is always on a different day every year. It is Yes. Yeah. And I remembered hearing about how they determine when when the date is, but I couldn't have explained it myself. Like, I had to reread it, and I'm going to read what it says.
00:24:39
Speaker
um Which, a lot people may or may not know this, like, honestly. The date of Easter is determined by the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox.
00:24:52
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So, yeah because the full moon dates are always changing, like, you know, every... March or April or whatever. um Yeah.
00:25:03
Speaker
We're going have Easter on a different Sunday almost every single year. Within a certain range, of course. But I'm not used to it being in April. it's That's a late Easter.
00:25:14
Speaker
Yeah. I've felt that way, too. I feel like it's been an even split, but it always feels weird when it falls in April. Yeah.
00:25:24
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I don't remember. Oh, hi, Maisie. My little baby girl's down here by my feet. isn't it on isn't it on 420 this year might be it is easter's on 420 shit wait that i feel like that has happened not too long ago could be wrong i definitely remember this being a thing in years past that's weird though yeah So the wait, so the full moon, the full moon is this Friday, right? Because it's the um we have the eclipse.
00:26:00
Speaker
I think no, the full moon is Thursday morning. Thursday, your Thursday night. Okay, because my because Friday because the because the eclipse happens Friday morning at 3am technically.
00:26:12
Speaker
Okay. on the Eastern. see but look By the time this you're listening to this, it's past that time. So didn who cares? But but yeah, so since the since the full moon is this week and equinox is next week, that's why the next full moon won't be until... Well, that's actually surprising. I would have thought then that it would kick back a week earlier. Because 28
00:26:44
Speaker
Where is my moon app? Give me the moon. All right. It probably be around the 11th or 12th at the most, latest. I'm trying to. This button is not having it with me.
00:26:57
Speaker
um I usually go by around, was it and isn't it about 29 days in between each full moon approximately?
Eggs: Recipes and Costs
00:27:04
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It's going to basically be April 12th based on my moon app.
00:27:10
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And that's surprising then because this the first Sunday after the 11th or 12th is the 13th. Yeah. But that is Palm Sunday this year. Huh. Easter is on the 20th.
00:27:25
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So your rules don't even make sense, Christians. I don't know. That's really funny. I don't get it. If somebody gets it, email us and tell us why we're wrong.
00:27:40
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But yeah, so anyway, 420 Easter, be prepared to, oh, you know you know what? 420 Easter, k Christina, I have two words for you.
00:27:51
Speaker
Deviled eggs. oh deviled eggs are the bomb. My favorite thing in the world. Yeah, so going to get stony bologna and have me some deviled eggs.
00:28:09
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Did I ever tell you about... it it was actually Easter, now that I think about it. Well, it was Ostara, but it was like... i think Easter was like pretty pretty close to the same time. I've talked about my friend Ben on this show.
00:28:25
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The one who ah is just an excellent fucking cook and chef. Nutrition guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he... so he came over, i think it was, think it was 2019.
00:28:42
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And he was living in Massachusetts at the time. He came over to my house when I was living with my ex still. I remember. And he made the most unbelievable deviled eggs.
00:28:56
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I tasted them and I very literally fell to my knees. Wow. Yeah. What was his secret ingredient? and Apple cider vinegar.
00:29:07
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Ooh.
00:29:10
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Do you have the recipe? I don't remember. we He didn't use a recipe. He just intuited Oh, okay. This is the genius of Ben. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:23
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I mean, it was there was mustard and there was apple cider vinegar and probably paprika. Because there's always there's like always two different kinds of deviled eggs, right? There's always the paprika ones and the dill ones.
00:29:36
Speaker
And the dill ones are the ones that I grew up with. Interesting. I don't think I've ever had dill ones. like Yeah, it's like way less, way less on the like spicy spectrum. It's way more on the like, it's way more English, I guess.
00:29:51
Speaker
Okay, so do they put something dill in the mix or do they just garnish it with a couple little dill springs? Both. Okay. Yeah, they use dill. weed, the seasoning in the mix and sprinkled on top.
00:30:07
Speaker
Interesting. I have never had those. Never. And I will say the ones that I've had are not spicy, but they are made with like either Miracle Whip or mayonnaise, depending on who's making them and which one they prefer, I guess.
00:30:22
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Right. little bit of mustard. yeah And that's probably it. Maybe some chopped up onions. Right. Yeah. um Yeah, like that's again, it's it's the white people deviled eggs.
00:30:38
Speaker
It was it's the white people deviled eggs. Yeah. what is the non spy yeah Okay, so what is Like like paprika and stuff and they're not They're not like spicy spicy but they're like white people spicy. Paprika would sprinkled on top a little bit just for color because like in my mind Paprika doesn't have any flavor. okay or chili powder.
00:31:06
Speaker
Okay chili powder would have some. Whatever but like in my mind they're combined they're the same thing. Paprika doesn't have any flavoring it's just ah for color. Yeah.
00:31:18
Speaker
for you know fact I think that it's not a super strong flavor. But I think it has a flavor. um But like, yeah, I've never had a deviled egg that's like actually spicy.
00:31:30
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But like, you know, there are deviled eggs recipes that lean way heavily on the mustard, which is like a different kind of spice. Yeah. Oh my god.
00:31:41
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know. i know ah Last year, i tried Coleman's mustard okay for the first time, and I don't know if you've ever had that, but dear lord, I was not prepared.
00:31:57
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Oh my god. i have never... It's such a spicy mustard that like it borders on unpleasant. Wow. And i love mustard. And i I was like... so i'm I'm still a fan. I'm a fan of Coleman's mustard, but oh my god, i was not prepared.
00:32:14
Speaker
is it a brown mustard? No, it's like a, it's like, it's an Irish mustard. Okay. Okay. So it's like it's it's like a regular mustard. i don't know what goes into it. I have no clue.
00:32:26
Speaker
It's just like a regular mustard. It's not um a Dijon or a brown mustard or anything. But it's like it's not yellow. It's not like a French's mustard at all.
00:32:37
Speaker
um But it's not particularly brown. It's just a regular mustard that is, again, it's so unassuming that you're not prepared.
00:32:46
Speaker
Is there only one type of that particular one you're talking about? I don't know because I don't know that I've seen it in stores. It was at a restaurant. ah um It came with the scotch eggs that I ordered. o And I slathered it on the top of a scotched egg o and immediately scraped it all off ah Oh my God, it was awful. it was so bad.
00:33:12
Speaker
But it just made me wonder like, hmm, I wonder how Coleman's mustard would be added to a deviled egg mixture. Huh.
00:33:23
Speaker
It would need to be like a very small amount alongside like other kinds of mustard probably. Gotcha. But it's like, it's like if horseradish was turned up to 11. Ooh.
00:33:35
Speaker
o It's in like, yeah. I'm looking at pictures of it and it doesn't look familiar. So I don't think I've ever had it. yeah It's an Irish brand.
00:33:47
Speaker
hmm. But yeah, now i'm now I'm wondering if I ever find any, because there's a there is a British section of a grocery store nearby. so I think I'm going to go look for, see if I can spot any Coleman's mustard.
00:34:02
Speaker
And maybe experiment with that. Because I'm rolling in it to afford all the eggs that I want to make. oh my god. Yeah. That's a weird thing this year, you know? They're so freaking expensive. it's like, god dang it.
00:34:19
Speaker
I guess I, like, I so rarely get eggs because I forget that I ever want them. And then I don't want them strong enough to, like, make myself go get some. Okay.
00:34:31
Speaker
And so whenever I'm actually doing a regular grocery run, I, like, don't even pay attention to egg prices. Mm-hmm. So I could tell you what they're, you know, what they're priced at right now. Mm-hmm. Yeah, around here they're at least $5 a dozen.
00:34:45
Speaker
And they used to be like $0.89 a dozen. Or $1.19 dozen at the most, you know? Wow, yeah. I guess I've seen that. Yeah, like that sounds that sounds about right who for here too. But again, i feel like they've been that price since I've been an adult.
00:35:07
Speaker
No, they definitely have not. Yeah.
00:35:11
Speaker
everybody's complaining about egg prices right now there it's no i but everybody's been complaining about them for a couple years now they've just been getting worse and worse and I'm just like like literally like a couple months ago i think you could find some for four something and now they're like five something you know what I mean it's like yeah see it's it's still like it's just ah because I think I just don't buy them enough right I don't even, it doesn't register as being too much because I'm like, I don't know what is too much. $10 maybe. Yeah. I wouldn't pay $10.
00:35:51
Speaker
I've seen, i mean, I've seen photos circulating on the internet of a $10 price tag on a shelf of eggs. That's crazy. but i like i think in California or something. brown Organic, you know, grass fed. i don't know. Whatever.
00:36:07
Speaker
ah ah Sure, it didn't look like any of the like fancy fancy brands or whatever. But in any case, I usually only ever get like a half dozen anyway.
00:36:18
Speaker
And then, well, yeah, that's the other thing too. I usually only get a half dozen and I usually go for the organic brand of the half dozen. so So that's usually, i'm used to that being $4. So again, I'm not getting, I've never gone for just the regular eggs.
00:36:37
Speaker
huh the whole dozen right because I'm like who has time for that many eggs we go through a dozen eggs every week in my house yeah and I'm not the one eating them if that tells you right right right somebody yeah well that's but that's like average for a for like a standard American household that's like average you know the same as like salts in my house we'll eat at least two every single day yeah And it's um you don't have to eat two eggs every single day, but he's like yeah addicted to them or something. so
00:37:13
Speaker
Yeah. Like, I mean, the i get that for sure. um Again, I don't think I've really paid attention to egg consumption because egg consumption was not like a daily thing. It was like weekday mornings breakfast was always cereal.
00:37:29
Speaker
You know, eggs and pancakes and bacon were always like weekend breakfasts. But then we would go through, you know, an entire dozen of eggs in one day. But then like also growing up in a house with, you know, two teenage boys, we went through gallons of milk like like nobody's business.
00:37:50
Speaker
Like we would go through like two or three gallons of milk in a week easily. Yeah. And I'm like, now I'm like, what? I can't find a small enough milk container for my needs. Yeah.
00:38:06
Speaker
I always go for quart at the most, who but usually like the skinnier cartons because I just need it so so infrequently.
00:38:17
Speaker
i have been eating more cereal recently, but even still, like I'm still not going through. i I ended up getting stuck buying a gallon of milk because I refuse to get anything but whole milk. ah Skim milk is trash.
00:38:30
Speaker
um This is a skim milk hate account. Yeah, I don't like skim milk. I like 2%. I don't even like 2%. Like, milk is not worth drinking if it's not whole.
00:38:43
Speaker
if you're gonna If you're not going to... As infrequently as you're drinking milk, you can deal you can handle having whole milk. but like yeah if you I don't drink milk that often, but I will have a bowl of cereal on the weekends, and that's usually the only milk intake that I have for a week.
00:38:59
Speaker
Yeah.
Spring Cooking and Rituals
00:39:00
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Anyhow, and i and I don't mind drinking like a little bit of whole milk once in a while, but I wouldn't want to drink that like all the time and I wouldn't want it for cereal for me but yeah um anyway way off topic and I wanted to say little bit about the whole reason why I brought up when Easter is determined is because that is the most pagan fucking thing ever but fuck yeah and it's so dumb it's like what the hell dude just do Ostaro you know what I mean dude dude for real dude for real
00:39:35
Speaker
Oh my god. oh yeah But I'm very excited because i love equinoxes and I love solstices and I don't know why I particularly like those four ones of the year and like ah sorry well they're like on it on they're like astrologically significant.
00:39:58
Speaker
Yeah. You know. Yeah. I get it. I get it. I get it. That's extra exciting for me. Yeah.
00:40:09
Speaker
What's your favorite tradition or like, okay, not Easter tradition, but like, what is your favorite like thing to do Ostara? Well, i feel like in the warmer months, my kitchen witchery always comes out to play a little bit more than usual.
00:40:28
Speaker
This maybe is going to sound a little unexpected but frankly i think that spring cleaning it might be my favorite like ostara springtime tradition because it just feels so good just to get all that shit out of your house i might need to try and partake in that this year i feel like everybody should because it's so good And it's like, it in a very literal sense, it's harder for me to take out the trash in the winter. And it's not just because it's cold, but because like here in my current place, I got to walk all the way across the parking lot to get to the dumpster.
00:41:12
Speaker
And, you know, it's luckily not been the case the last like week and a half or so. But like for several weeks before before I went down to south carolina to North Carolina, the whole fucking parking lot was like an ice rink.
00:41:29
Speaker
And i was like, I'm not carrying trash across an ice rink. Absolutely not. Yeah, I don't blame you at all. And so it just was like, I was just like slowly accumulating it.
00:41:42
Speaker
And that doesn't that doesn't mean my house is full of trash. Like, that's not the case. um But like, I was starting to think like, I might need to like bring trash bags, like put them in my trunk and dump them in the dumpster at the office because I could at least park right next to the dumpster.
00:41:59
Speaker
at the office and not have to risk breaking my ankle to get to the dumpster. Good idea. And so it's just like, it it's very much like wintertime feels like it's not as easy to take everything out.
00:42:14
Speaker
right and obviously it's harder to open the windows and like let fresh air in because it's freezing cold and so like now is the time where you can start to open the windows and get the fresh air in and let things you know air out dude it got up to 67 here yesterday oh my god know Oh, man.
00:42:41
Speaker
Today was like... 63 was the high today. I think ah think... I don't know for sure, but they were saying it was like 10 degrees cooler today than yesterday. So maybe it was in the upper 50s, but I don't know.
00:42:55
Speaker
And then tomorrow it's supposed to be 50. Yeah. Yeah. It's dipping a tiny bit tomorrow and Friday here. And then the weekend it's going back up to the 60s.
00:43:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. 61 63 on Saturday, Sunday. think here on Thursday or Friday, it's supposed to go into upper 60s again. One of those two days.
00:43:21
Speaker
Yeah. anyway So we're getting there. Spring fever's coming. Yeah. And everybody keeps saying it's fake. It's not real. Don't trust it. I'm like, okay, we'll see. Because the thing is, too, like, I remember last year very deliberately paying super close attention to when the leaves were going to start blooming off the trees.
00:43:43
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I remember distinctly but it was, like, damn near the end of April when I started to notice some green.
00:43:55
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And it made me so sad. Mm-hmm. I like, why It's like we're we're more than halfway through spring at this point. You know? Yeah.
00:44:06
Speaker
And it was still like stick season. a And the year before that, I guess I wasn't paying as close attention because I moved into this apartment in the first week of April 2023. Right.
00:44:20
Speaker
right But I do remember it being in the first, like, at the first couple of weeks working from home when I could see out the window in my office that the tree was starting to turn green.
00:44:35
Speaker
And so it was like, yeah, maybe it's only a difference in a couple weeks, but it, God, it feels like forever. Mm-hmm. Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. Because it's truly, like, it it brings, like, relief to the mind. Mm-hmm.
00:44:51
Speaker
To have things starting to bloom and blossom. Yeah. A reminder that we're through the dark season.
00:45:01
Speaker
But yeah. Oh, with regards to the kitchen witchery, because I started to talk about that. I have like a really special place in my heart for like springtime recipes. oh Recipes that are like, ah because I ah particularly love cooking according to the seasons.
00:45:19
Speaker
Yeah. And i have that cookbook, Six Seasons, that is just absolutely phenomenal. And it goes by the seasonal vegetables.
00:45:31
Speaker
Oh, right. early springtime, everything just feels like in like energy as well as like taste when you actually eat the foods, they just feel so fresh.
00:45:44
Speaker
Mm hmm. And I don't know. it just. It compounds on the energy. That's already in the air. About the warmth returning.
00:45:56
Speaker
Yeah. That makes so much sense. e Yeah.
00:46:06
Speaker
You always laugh a little, like, not in a, like, I'm laughing at you kind of way, but, like, giggle or whatever when I see you get in that little mood where you close your eyes and just revel in your feeling for a moment.
00:46:20
Speaker
Listen, i am all about them sensory experiences, bro. Oh, my god oh For real, for real, though.
00:46:31
Speaker
It's just adorable. You put you like close your eyes and put your head back with a smile on your face. and just sit there for a few seconds. I wish the ah the listeners could see.
00:46:46
Speaker
Oh my god Shall we together manifest our ideal Ostara day by speaking it into existence?
00:47:00
Speaker
and can certainly try.
00:47:04
Speaker
Oh, I think I feel like ah this is probably the case with every Sabbath, but i like the idea of getting up with the sunrise. um don't know if star a day.
00:47:18
Speaker
obviously like things like the equinoxes and the solstices they're like purpose for existing is literally like the length of the days um and so that's why getting up at the sunrise feels appropriate for sure
00:47:44
Speaker
And I'm picturing like I feel like a lavender incense would be phenomenal. I worry that maybe a lavender incense might be a little too sleepy time for the morning. But um or rose.
00:48:00
Speaker
I do like ah any good floral incense. Yeah, dude. Like. like an old, um, scent that I remember from childhood is tea rose, which is like, I think I might've had like a perfume that was a tea rose or something.
00:48:16
Speaker
Um, but I do have like a, and like a essential oil or an oil that's scented that way, but it's probably super old now. So I probably need to get rid of it.
00:48:27
Speaker
Yeah. Probably doesn't smell the same. Yeah. Yeah. Um, A cedar would also be really nice. It's a little less definitively springtime, but it comes to mind.
00:48:44
Speaker
i have a lot of the incenses that I gravitate toward are very musky, very woody, very exotic in some cases. And I don't lean so much on the floral sense, but I feel like I should pick myself up some floral scented incenses.
00:49:00
Speaker
I think I have one that's rose. ah like a like a package of them. But otherwise, like it's mostly sandalwood. It's mostly patchouli. The dog chompa that we love.
00:49:14
Speaker
And so some floral incense would be top tier. Yeah, dude.
00:49:23
Speaker
And maybe like a... awesome Oh, yeah. Dude, you know skincare company called Lush? Of course. Okay.
00:49:34
Speaker
So they sell, ah and don't think they have it anymore, but like they used to have like that, that solid perfume that you had like rub your finger yeah into and stuff that was called Sakura, which Sakura.
00:49:51
Speaker
Well, I don't know how you pronounce it exactly, but it's supposed to, it's Japanese, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Cherry blossom. Um, um And then like they had the body scrub that's called Rub Rub Rub.
00:50:04
Speaker
And that's scented with that as well. And I love the smell of that. Their products that were Sakura scented like the bomb.
00:50:14
Speaker
yeah Yeah. would you say then that on your ideal Ostara day that your morning shower would include Sakura body scrub?
00:50:26
Speaker
Hell yeah, dude. for sure yeah that sounds fucking bomb you know that um dc is famous for its cherry blossoms right yeah um yeah when john went there on his little solo trip that was one of the things he wanted to see and i think he was i think he missed it by like a week yeah it's it's hard to time yeah For sure. But growing up around there, it was easy at the time because we could go whenever we wanted.
00:50:55
Speaker
oh That's another thing that we did um was go down to D.C. for the Cherry Blossom Festival. nice um which it was always the cherry blossom festival, but I don't recall ever seeing like a parade or vendors or anything. It was always just only the trees, which like, that's enough. That's, that's fine. That's great.
00:51:19
Speaker
But like, now that I'm thinking about i'm like, was there actually like a festival involved or we, did we just like not do that part? um Yeah. If anybody knows,
00:51:33
Speaker
even though I should know it because I grew up there, art let me know. did I miss out? Um, but yeah, that's, that's one that we did too. And then they're, oh God, they're stunning.
00:51:45
Speaker
But yeah. Um,
00:51:50
Speaker
yeah. Floral scented everything, frankly. hu I do love Rose, like just straight up Rose sense for sure.
00:52:02
Speaker
But yeah, I feel like what I was going to say is um on an ideal day, because that's what we're talking about. oh It would be nice to do like a like a sunrise salutation yoga sequence.
00:52:15
Speaker
I knew you were going there because I'm like that salutation is such a yoga term. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Sunrise salutation. It's like the most classic, but it's like, it's a classic for a reason, you know, it really does like oh invigorate the body.
00:52:29
Speaker
But like to do that, to like wake up with the sunrise and do a sunrise salutation would be like, don't know. I feel like it would just zing my chakras directly into alignment.
00:52:42
Speaker
Yeah. I, I, um, I think I'm going to try to scrub myself with rub, rub, rub and ya smell the Sakura all day long.
00:52:54
Speaker
Oh, divine. I also do have a another brand like skincare brand that I really like a lot is Philosophy. I've heard of that. Yeah.
00:53:05
Speaker
Yeah. um The one, the bath bath wash that i or body wash that I use um daily basically is uh amazing grace which has scent that is really yummy especially when you layer it with like the the you know not just the body wash but like the lotion or the perfume and like that kind of stuff but recently i was told that it smells old lady like and i'm not too thrilled with that oh my god
00:53:38
Speaker
But i never thought I never felt personally that it did or else I wouldn't have liked it because I can't stand old baby smells. like I hate that. But anyway.
00:53:50
Speaker
it but What do you think you would... Oh, sorry. That's okay. My mother um bought me the philosophy brand ah Rose...
00:54:03
Speaker
like I don't remember if there was another name, another word that went with that name, but it was like a rose-scented lotion and perfume from philosophy. So you can layer those as well.
00:54:15
Speaker
And I'm going to have to dig those out and try to use them and see if they still smell good because it's been a few years since I got them.
00:54:24
Speaker
But yeah, so yeah, the cherry blossom-scented stuff and the rose-scented stuff, I'm definitely going to be digging into that this coming week. So I was going to ask you, would be your ideal breakfast on Ostara?
00:54:42
Speaker
Okay. oh
00:54:46
Speaker
All right. So you remember one of my favorite restaurants that is very close to my house called Haney's. yeah dude they have like these skillets that like the greek skillet is the bomb and it's usually got a little bit of like hollandaise sauce on it i love hollandaise and like some spinach And stuff like that. I'm pretty sure it's the Greek one that they do that with, but it might, yeah it might be a different one, but anyway, that and their orange bread, because like, you know how they have like a you know, you could get a side of toast or you could get a pancake.
00:55:31
Speaker
Right. Well, they usually have a choice of like toast or pancake or English muffin or this or that or whatever. But they had this stuff called orange bread, which is like a dessert.
00:55:44
Speaker
It's so good. It's so sweet and like a sweet. Like an orange sweet roll. Yeah, but it's like, it's you know how like banana bread is? Oh, so like a loaf.
00:55:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's like in a loaf. Okay. It's the slice of it. but it's so sweet it's like banana bread but it's orange yeah and it has like a glaze um on top like a you know what i mean powder triggered kind of icing on top and that is the bomb and i think that that combination of you know those two food items for were breakfast would be the best would be like my ideal breakfast hell yeah hell yeah
00:56:33
Speaker
Speaking of hollandaise, how about an eggs benny?
00:56:38
Speaker
Oh, I love them. Oh, my God. Yeah, if I was going out for brunch, like I would get a for like Ostarro brunch eggs benedict all the way.
00:56:50
Speaker
Oh my lord. i was thinking though for myself about like if I were two make something for breakfast for myself on Ostara I would adore I don't know if this is like something that you can find everywhere but I know that I found it maybe at Whole Foods or something but like a like a rosemary sourdough.
00:57:16
Speaker
That sounds amazing. Oh my god yeah. Um Or like a rye. I do love like a rye bread. um But a rosemary sourdough.
00:57:28
Speaker
And I would want to do soft boiled eggs that you, you know, remove the shell and then just mash it all up with salt and pepper.
00:57:41
Speaker
Spread that on some rosemary sourdough toast. And with some sage sausage. Oh my goodness. On the side. And i'm trying to think, because like, I mean, it's a little hard to do like vegetables in the morning.
00:57:56
Speaker
but Like vegetables are like super springy to me. Okay. So you do a little side dish of some pickled veggies. Yeah.
00:58:09
Speaker
Or. god. And or add pickled red onions on top of the soft boiled eggs on the toast. Woo! Woo!
Microgreens and Spring Intentions
00:58:20
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Speaking my language.
00:58:21
Speaker
Dude, yeah. Pickled red onions. Oh, Lord. oh my God. Yeah. And if I have it, haven't been able to find it. I've looked the last few times I've gone through a Whole Foods, but I haven't been able to find the apple cider vinegar hot honey dressing oh that I've loved. I'm going to have to, like, ask if they even still carry it because I've seen, like, the same brand of like the shape, the same shape of bottles, the same labels, but like, if like not the one that I want.
00:58:54
Speaker
so I'm gonna have to like, I don't know, me be more deliberate about it. But like to have the apple cider vinegar, hot honey dressing, like drizzled over that. Maybe like, maybe a little arugula would be good on that.
00:59:10
Speaker
That'd be interesting. Now you got me thinking that I might need to grow some mustard microgreens. absolutely you do chop them up and mix them in with the oh micro greens that's what's gotta to go on top of the I could do on top of the toast I can do micro arugula I've grown that you totally could oh my god that'd be so good but yeah that'd be perfect because you were talking about the mustard earlier made me think about my mustard greens yeah mustard micros and like how that could potentially enhance the deviled eggs oh absolutely absolutely
00:59:47
Speaker
Maybe not mixed in, but definitely like garnished on top. huh For sure. yeah Because they do. Mine, the ones that I've grown, taste so much like brown mustard, like spicy brown mustard.
00:59:59
Speaker
Oh, I love it. Yeah. love it. Oh, my God. oh my God. And in a perfect world, I would i would have me some Earl Grey tea alongside that. But I'm not often in the mood for that.
01:00:18
Speaker
So in a realistic world, it's probably going to be coffee. Of course. An iced coffee, though, because it's getting warmer. And if it's not less than 20 degrees, i don't want hot coffee.
01:00:29
Speaker
so
01:00:32
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And like, like a nice, just slow morning with more incense. Honestly, I think I'm just the kind of person who needs incense going throughout the day if I want to have like a a truly like me day. And I think it'd be really good to have like springtime crafts, maybe making a springtime wreath or something would be lovely. Sounds fun.
01:01:01
Speaker
Yeah. Or painting or drawing or whatever, just like any sort of creative outlet, but like spending my time doing that. Hmm. It reminds me of, uh, when I had to use pastels and art class,
01:01:15
Speaker
Because you know what pastels are. Right. They're kind of like chocolate softer. Right. Yeah. and know Yeah. Physically softer. Like they come off onto the paper easier. Like when you rub them.
01:01:28
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so pastels come in like many colors, like even dark colors, you know, but that's what they're called. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Is the medium or whatever. I haven't thought of that for a long time, but I remember now.
01:01:41
Speaker
Yeah. So like when you're talking about doing art for Ostara, it's like, you gotta use pastels. ha Yeah. man i really I really want to.
01:01:53
Speaker
i've got on my Michael's trip the other day. or not Michael's, Joanne's trip. Yeah, yeah. The other day. i didn't get to see your haul of that either. Yeah, I need to do that. so wella But I got um ah bunch of canvases. Ooh.
01:02:11
Speaker
Because they were on sale in like big packs. um some Big packs. They were like, they're not huge canvases. I still dream of getting myself like a big ass canvas. I have no idea what I would do with it. But like, like a huge canvas. I used to like look at those in the store and just be like, I wish I could have that one. Yeah.
01:02:33
Speaker
But like the, the packs of like, you know, the 16 by 16 canvases and stuff. Yeah. I got a couple of those and like, I just got a post up with that. And like, I gotta do, I gotta to do that.
01:02:49
Speaker
Yeah. You haven't done any of that stuff in a while, huh? I know it's been a while, honestly, but I, I totally should. And I wouldn't use pastels, but I do like my acrylic paints, but yeah, doing like that, having myself a lunch.
01:03:06
Speaker
Oh my God. again i would probably go out of the um the six seasons cookbook for something for lunch but like oh my goodness something with like asparagus and onion and like balsamic vinegar o dude and like chicken
01:03:29
Speaker
like ah like a like a pan seared chicken oh my goodness I'm so excited. I'm just, I haven't been on the Lush website in a while. oh no, you're online shopping now? No, I'm just looking to see what they have.
01:03:43
Speaker
But they've got some stuff that's got that. Sakura. Yep. Rub, rub, rub. It's listed on there. i have one in my shower, but it's old.
01:03:53
Speaker
I always forget that I have it. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Oh my gosh. But then we gotta, we gotta talk about the most important part of the day.
01:04:04
Speaker
Yeah, what? The ritual.
01:04:08
Speaker
Ooh, that's funny. When I said cedar earlier, I was like, I know that it definitely is not like the first thing that comes to mind with spring. But then um under incense on this little, little thing I found, the first incense listed as cedarwood.
01:04:23
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ah So, ooh, you know what we've completely neglected to mention? In terms of springtime scents that I'm so surprised. What? Lemongrass.
01:04:35
Speaker
Ooh, anything like I feel like that's like, Anything le i love lemon. love lemongrass. Oh, my God. Okay. Yeah. So if anyone wanted to get me a present.
01:04:49
Speaker
um I want the Spring and Bloom gift box from lush because it's got the Sakura bath bomb. and It's all limited edition. They've got to support a body wash that says Sakura on it.
01:05:07
Speaker
Anyway. Springtime spellwork. What comes to mind for me... is well it's also on this thing but gratitude i mean it's gratitude's relevant all year round never a bad day for gratitude balance which is on theme with the equinox for sure fertility and renewal rituals to bring abundance which kind of goes in line with fertility too because
01:05:42
Speaker
Fertility doesn't just have to pertain to like actual getting pregnant and birthing something, but like birthing new ideas and projects. Yes. Goal setting also in that vein. Fostering a fertile mind.
01:05:58
Speaker
Yes. Very, very true. Something that's listed here that is interesting to me is the practice of raising energy with sound.
01:06:10
Speaker
Like a sound bath. Dude. I bought a little bell m probably a year ago or so. And I've never used it yet.
01:06:21
Speaker
But it's the kind that you hold. like It's got a little stem on it and That would be amazing. I've got a big one. It's not huge. It's like ah very average size. But it's like not little. It's it's like a very normal bell sign bell sound. But I'm always like... Well, not always.
01:06:41
Speaker
I think I'm hesitant to use it for the fact that I have such close neighbors, but lately i feel like ah shouldn't care. You shouldn't.
01:06:51
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Yeah. That is not an unpleasant sound. True. True. It's true. Um, but I like that idea of like doing like something like a energy raising, like a sound bath, um, but also a regular old ritual bath, which dear God, I wish I had a big enough bath for that. Right.
01:07:08
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Um, i miss it and yeah meditations on beginnings in general or manifestation of something new which again goes in line with you know new projects and fertility in that way but like i think that for myself i would absolutely meditate on if i had like a specific project that i knew i wanted to make sure came into existence then i would probably do work pertaining to that but i think in general with this time of the year being the time when i start to finally come alive again i absolutely would meditate on the ways that i want to channel all this energy that i have
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now and like if i were to do so this year which i'll just go ahead and say i should go ahead and do it this year i would want to focus on putting my energy into a routine of care like self-care but not self-care in a way of like pampering but in a way of like optimizing my own effectiveness at leading the life that i want to lead And admittedly, as I have recently expressed, that's getting harder and harder to do with the way that my job is affecting me.
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um But I think it's all the more important then to focus on this to give myself some reprieve from the effects of my job. Yeah, dude. So self-care, literally to care for myself because nobody else does.
01:08:59
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Right. And can. Right. So that'll be my focus, this Ostara. Yeah. You know, remember what I was talking about last week regarding what my horoscope stuff was saying?
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about what to do last week to like prepare for this week. It was like, get ready to start clearing your calendar out and like, you know, getting rid of ah garbage or whatever.
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And I feel like I did a little bit of that because I rearranged like when I wanted, when I'm to do my physical therapy instead of on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'm doing it on Mondays and Wednesdays so that I don't feel so rushed to like get Sebastian, get home to do recording and stuff like that, you know?
01:09:50
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So I rearranged that. And like, I just feel like ay And finally in a place that I'm more able to prioritize myself and my own needs above other people's at this point.
01:10:04
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Like I'm trying to like take time to like chill and like be mindful of my own mental health, I guess. You know?
01:10:15
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Yeah. Yeah. That's, that feels like a, like a new thing for me, like for, you know, that I've been noticing the past few days. just taking a taking a beat that's good news that's really good news honestly so I'm glad to hear that and I hope that it continues I i plan on making it continue good good yeah it's springtime bitch
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so
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well
01:10:57
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Do you have any final words for our springtime bitches? Take time to smell the tulips. Yeah. i should get myself some flowers.
01:11:09
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Dude, yeah. Buy yourself the fucking lilies. There's my words of wisdom. Oh my god, yeah.
01:11:22
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For anybody who's not aware... That is the title of a book that will change your life. Buy yourself the fucking lilies. yeah Except i don't really like lilies, so I'll find a different flower.
01:11:35
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But I will get some flowers. i You know what I need to do is I need to get more eucalyptus and not just keep it in my shower, but keep it like everywhere. Yeah, you know, earlier when we were talking about like flower, floral scents and things like that, and you were talking about cedar.
01:11:52
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After you said cedar, the next thing on my mind was eucalyptus, but I wasn't sure if it was a springy scent or not. I think it is, really. It's like a spring-summer of vibe, honestly.
01:12:07
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It's very fresh. So fresh and so clean, clean.
01:12:14
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Yeah, I do love eucalyptus so much. Sweet. What I should do, because like I was telling you I got the eucalyptus at Trader Joe's and it was so cheap. It was like four or five dollars. I can't remember exactly.
01:12:28
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What I need to do is get eucalyptus and whatever else looks really nice at Trader Joe's. Mm-hmm. And just make myself a little bouquet.
01:12:40
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Do it. Yeah. Well, are you feeling inspired? I think so. o this is This is the reason that I like to do these like daydreaming practically about our ideal Sabbath day.
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is so that we can hopefully manifest it.
01:13:07
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Yes. Yeah. And maybe inspire y'all, the listeners, if you're if you're feeling in need of some inspiration to celebrate. Even if you're not like into celebrating Sabbaths, you may not be a witch. I don't really know.
01:13:24
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um you can do You do you. But you know if you feel like celebrating the the season as it changes, this is ah these are all good ways to do that, too.
Seasonal Celebrations and Patreon Announcement
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I'm into it. I'm just looking at pictures of gladiolas and feeling all like daydreamy now. So many different colors. Get yourself some.
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Grab some tomorrow or something. I'm going to try and find some. Do it. Do it. Awesome. everybody enjoy your ostara and or easter if you celebrate because that's not even for another month anyways but uh yeah we'll we'll come back around for stoner easter don't worry we may come back around for regular easter in a month in any case hey you guys hey y'all bitches out there got
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We got our Patreon. It's fully, fully live. When we dropped last week's episode, it was not completely live yet because I didn't realize there was an approval process it needed to undergo.
01:14:37
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But that only took a day. So it is currently live as we're recording this, only a day after we dropped our last episode. And it will be live still when you hear this.
01:14:47
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Very easy, very breezy, very beautiful cover girl.
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I'm so stupid. oh
01:15:12
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No, but for real, for real, I recorded the next tarot reading for the Patreon today. And dear God, it was intense. Was it really?
01:15:24
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oh it was a lot. I pulled six cards. Five of them were major arcana. So so now I got to figure out how I can watch the Patreon stuff. myself because Did you videotape or just audio?
01:15:40
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Just audio, just audio. But I gave that like very ah vivid descriptions of all the cards. That I pulled. I wonder how I can listen to it with without having to be a subscriber myself.
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I gotta give you the login. gotta give you the login to it. okay Yeah. Yeah. Because you'll have to, unless you want to pay $20 a month. The hot and spicy pickle.
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be a top your pickle the hot and spicy pickle The hot and spicy pickled mama. Yeah. Oh my god. I absolutely fucking love the tier names that we but we decided on.
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I think they're so fucking cute. We got your $5 tier. That's a bread your bread and butter pickles. o And we got the $10 tier, which is your classic dill. And then we got the $20 which is the hot and spicy.
01:16:38
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we For reasons we shall not... disclose no we're disclosing is this scene a it's got the most content to admit no false we are not i say we are not kink shaming ourselves oh god who no but for real for real it's got the most content like by long shot and frankly the spiciest
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So please join us. it's It's a fun time. it's It's already a fun time. It's only been a day. but So please, please come hang out with us.
01:17:24
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Come chat with us. Come leave comments. Like this is the other thing. Like people can't just leave comments on our regular episodes. But you can come and leave comments on all of our bonus episodes. And the tarot readings.
01:17:35
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And the blog posts. um Yeah. Amazing. And there's the community chat, which I still have not figured out how to work, but it it exists as a thing. so we're going to figure it out.
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move Sweet, sweet. like, please. Like, yeah. I'm not begging, but, you know. This is not us begging.
01:18:00
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Begging, begging you. goodness. Sorry. In the meantime, you can still find us on Instagram.
01:18:12
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Christina, did you learn from last week what our Instagram is? At SoulPodThePodcast. Yeah, bitch. You know it. Oh my god. And what about our email?
01:18:25
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SoulPodThePodcast at gmail.com It's so easy, you guys. Honestly, I'm like genuinely so chuffed at how across the board universal I've been able to keep things yes because we we as as severely ADHD as we are we need it we need it I mean I'm living proof look at what I did last week both on the podcast at instagram.com
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I don't freaking know yes I do know I think it's finally committed to memory Thank God. Oh my God. For real. Oh, well, you guys we got a fucking split.
01:19:15
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We got to make like a banana and split.
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But we hope you have a beautiful day or night and we hope that you lock your back doors.
01:19:32
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don't forget to play hide pickle. <unk> rick
01:19:43
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get ready for you to but back to that because it sounds so crazy like your phone is totally whack
01:19:53
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oh
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and don't forget to play hide the pickle
01:20:01
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is that ah Is that an Easter game? just but thought that was a Christmas game.
01:20:11
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yeah i know that they have pickle ornaments that is like a Polish tradition. Yeah. But I was referring to hiding something.
01:20:24
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Why would you want to hide that? oh my God. I want to find it. Oh, my God. Stop. yeah
01:20:32
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Find the pickle. Molly, where would the pickle go?
01:20:40
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If it was like attached to a human being. Oh, shut the fuck up.
01:20:47
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If it was flesh colored and attached to a male person. Oh my god. No, I know. Find the pickle. I don't know. I just thought of that one. like there might be There might be another one called Hide the Sausage. I'm not quite sure.
01:21:05
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Oh, God. Oh, no. oh Lord.
01:21:13
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Yep. We've overdone it. We're done.
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I'm Pickle Rick! Okay.
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okay