Hi Angelina, thank you very much for your lovely blog comments this week. I sincerely appreciate you visiting Witchcrafted Life and sharing some of your thoughts and personal experiences here with me/us.

It can certainly be challenging – but, thankfully, not necessarily impossible – to celebrate the sabbats if you are not presently living in a setting where you’re out of the proverbial broom closet and/or if other circumstances make doing so challenging.

If it’s safe, and otherwise feasible, for you to spend time outdoors, that can open up a vast array of ways to honour and celebrate the seasons. From watching the sun rise or set to creating outdoor altars, leaving offerings from the genius loci in your area to wildcrafting for found natural treasures that can ethically be sourced from around your area (you may wish to leave an offering of thanks in this instance, too, if doing so).

At home, candles (perhaps anointed with meaningful essential oils and/or herbs) in colours and/or scents that pertain to the sabbats, kitchen witchery, discretely placed sigils, various forms of divination, private journaling or BOS/grimoire writing, bath and shower magick/rituals, and displaying seasonal decor are just a few of the many ways one can connect with the sabbats without (in theory) drawing much attention or eliciting potentially unwanted curiosity from others.

However you celebrate the year’s sabbats, I hope that they are each meaningful, serene, empowering, joyful, and blessed occasions for you.💗

Happiest Ostara season wishes from my heart to yours!
♥ Autumn

Hi lovely Kathleen, you’re very welcome. It is my heartfelt pleasure.

How are you doing on all fronts during these extremely challenging and uncertain times?

With all my heart, I hope that you have an incredibly safe, healthy, peaceful and blessed Beltane season (and whole of the year).

Many hugs,
♥ Autumn

Thank you deeply, dear Tambra. Your blessings and radiant light are received, felt, and sent out in turn to you as well.

Excellent point regarding using essential oils either in conjunction with the foods they’re derived from or as stand-alone products.

That is a creative, fantastic way to avail of certain springtime fruits and herbs (and maybe even the occasional vegetable; carrot seed, for example) that aren’t easy to track down right. I really appreciate you bringing this topic up here. Thank you so much!

May you have an immensely safe, positive, and joy-filled Beltane season.

♥ Autumn

Thank you so much, lovely Debi. I really appreciate your wonderful comment and must say right off the bat that I’m very glad you touched on jasmine.

Thank you for doing so. I’m going to update my post accordingly right now to clarify that not all jasmine is safe for humans.

It’s easy to think of jasmine as being edible given its widespread usage in tea, but only the species Jasminum officinale is considered sae. Other species are poisonous – so please, please, please only dig into a dish with jasmine if you know for certain that you’re eating Jasminum officinale. (Or do what I love to do, use jasmine tea to flavour dishes with the sublime scent and pleasing taste of delicate jasmine blossoms.)

So true about the fresh-faced beauty, so to speak, of gardens at this time of the year. I just adore seeing what springs to life in our area as the sunny days return.

Thank you again. You are such a sweet, fantastic person and I’m honoured that you visit my blog.

Big hugs,
♥ Autumn