Also known as: Eostar or Spring Equinox
This festival is also one of
fertility, and the second of the trinity of spring celebrations.
This sabbat occurs mid March when the day and night are of equal lenght.
It is a celebration of Balance.
This is a good time to treat
yourself to a new broom if you are a woman or perhaps a new staff if you
are a man. Both would be ritually concencrated, and both should be
named, just as you would name a familiar.
It is tradition to serve twisted
bread and sweet cames at dusk.
Eostar is the Goddes of the
dawn. The name Eostar is so similar to Easter from the Christian religon as that holiday took its name from the ancient Pagan Goddess of
the Spring and rebirth. Her sacred animal is the rabbit or hare.
Hare's are associated with the full moon. Next time the moon is full,
take a good look at the moon and you will see the rabbit in the moon.
Though it looks more like the Energiser Bunnie to me :)
Seeds are blessed for future
planting, eggs are coloured and placed on the alter as magickal talismans.
Easter Bunnies and baskets of flowers are pagan derivatives. Traditional
colours are light green, lemon yellow and pale pink.
