The first day of Spring celebrates life and birth. This is a time of balance when light and dark are equal, but light is destined to win.
Games, dancing, and singing take place. Offerings are made to insure that the crops will grow strong and will bare a bountiful harvest.
Traditional foods: Hard-boiled eggs, honey cakes, first fruits of the season, and milk punch
Ritual herbs: acorns, celandine, cinquefoil, crocus, daffodil, dogwood, honey suckle, iris, jasmine, rose, strawberry, tansy, and violets
Ritual decorations: colored eggs, green and yellow jellybeans
Incense: African violet, jasmine, rose, sage, strawberry
Stones: amythest, aquamarine, bloodstone, and red jasper
Dieties: Eostre / Ostara, the Greenman, and the Maiden
Candle colors: green, yellow, gold, and all pastels