Ostara/Eostar

  "This Sabbat recognizes the start of spring, and celebrates the Goddess,
   once again in her maiden aspect.  This Sabbat is a time for fertility
   rituals, and the cutting of spring's first blossoms.
   Day and night are equal as Spring begins to enliven the environment
   with new growth and more newborn animals. Many people feel "reborn"
   after the long nights and coldness of winter. The Germanic Goddess
   Ostara or Eostre (Goddess of the Dawn), after whom Easter is named, is
   the tutelary deity of this holiday. It is she, as herald of the sun,
   who announces the triumphal return of life to the earth. Witches in
   the Greek tradition celebrate the return from Hades of Demeter's
   daughter Persephone; Witches in the Celtic tradition see in the
   blossoms the passing of Olwen, in whose footprints flowers bloom. The
   enigmatic egg, laid by the regenerating snake or the heavenly bird, is
   a powerful symbol of the emergence of life out of apparent death or
   absence of life." From the Covenant of the Goddess

DECORATIONS
ACTIVITIES
Pysansky egg decorating
EVENTS
Pagan Events Calendar (offsite)

Cauldrons full of water, happy growing plants, symbols
of animal and plant abundance in general, and signs of spring. Eggs
and rabbits, best known as symbols of Easter, originally came from spring
festivals like this one, and imply renewal and fertility.


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