Ostara

Now comes the Vernal Equinox, and the season of Spring reaches it's apex, halfway through its journey from Imbolc to Bealtaine. Once again, night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the ascendancy. The light now wins a victory over the darkness. It is certainly a time of new beginnings, as a simple glance at Nature will prove.

A Christian holiday that gets mixed up with Ostara is Easter. Easter celebrates the victory of a god of light; Jesus, over darkness; death, so it makes sense to place it at this season. The name 'Easter' was taken from the name of a Teutonic lunar Goddess, Eostre. Her chief symbols were the bunny; both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon, and the egg. Her holiday, the Eostara, is held on the Vernal Equinox Full Moon. The Church doesn't celebrate full moons so they planted their Easter on the following Sunday. Thus, Easter is always the first Sunday, after the first Full Moon, after the Vernal Equinox.

This is the season to celebrate the victory of life over death. It is Nature Herself who, in Spring, returns from the Underworld with her gift of abundant life.

For modern Witches, Ostara is one of the Lesser Sabbats or Low Holidays of the year, one of the four quarter-days.

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