Ostara


Ostara, the spring equinox, is named for a fertility goddess, Easter, who liked to appear in the form of a white rabbit. The Christian feast of Easter, which is named after the same goddess, celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, and through that event, the resurection of all humans. What is so different between our two religions is that Pagans celebrate Ostara as a specific date, set by the Sun, while Christians celebrate Easter as a movable feas, set by the moon... isn't it normaly the other way around?

Here, in the midpoint of spring, we see that life that seemed dead only a few weeks earlier, can and does come again. The traditional symbol of Easter - eggs and rabbits - are associated with fertility and new life and with the sumbolic pregnancy of the Earth that is manifested in the greening land.

In the year as a day, Ostara is sunrise. It is associated with the direction of east. In the wheel of the year, the seed sprouts.