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Ostara - March 20-21Ostara also known as the Vernal or Spring Equinox marks the rekindling of life withing the Earth and the revewal of fertility to our spiritual lives. This festival and the Christian Easter celebration both get their names from the free-spirited goddess, Eostre. Legend has it that while entertaining a group of children, she once turned a bird into a rabbit. To the amusement of the children, the bewitched animal laid colored eggs. Her story is the basis for the Easter Bunny, spring egg hunts, and most other traditions associated with this holiday. Eostre's story aside , the eg is an excellent symbol for the sring celebration. The egg white represents the all-encompassing nature of the Goddess while the golden yolk represents the virile qualities of the Sun God. The symmetrical outer shell binds the two together, sealing Their fertility and Their perfect love for one another. From a more mundane angle, all animal life comes from eggs. Fish, Fowl, amphibians, and inscts lay them. Mammals conceive when sperm cellls penetrate them. If you wanted to stretch the imagination some, you could say that vegetation sprouts from eggs too, being embyonic and shell-covered, seeds are egglike in nature. Eggs just come naturally as a focal point of the celebration of Ostara.
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