Ostara Spring Equinox (Sold)
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The Spring Equinox is celebrated on March 21st. This is a time when light and dark are in perfect balance. Ostara was a deity honoured around the time of the Spring Equinox. She was the Goddess of the Dawn and her festival celebrated fertility, new life and rebirth . Legend tells of Ostara finding a wounded, dying bird in the snow. She held the bird in her arms and the warmth from her body brought the bird back to life. Sadly the bird’s wings had been so badly damaged by the freezing cold that she was no longer able to fly. Ostara decided to transform the bird into a rabbit. To honour its earlier form as a bird she gave it the ability to lay eggs. The creature was so grateful for its life being saved that whenever she laid eggs she decorated them and left them as gifts for Ostara.
This practice of decorating eggs was a custom that ancient cultures carried out as part of their Spring celebrations. The Anglo-Saxons painted eggs with their hopes and dreams and then gifted them to Ostara. The decorated eggs were buried in the earth so that the earth-mother would hear their dreams and bring them to fruition.
This practice of decorating eggs was a custom that ancient cultures carried out as part of their Spring celebrations. The Anglo-Saxons painted eggs with their hopes and dreams and then gifted them to Ostara. The decorated eggs were buried in the earth so that the earth-mother would hear their dreams and bring them to fruition.
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