I'm so glad that my grown adult kids still take the day off work and school to celebrate the equinox with me, I feel blessed!

First lemon bloom opens, Happy Spring to you!

Happy #Ostara
Welcome Spring Equinox!

Had to bundle up for the dog walk this AM - In the vicinity of the North Atlantic - the first day of Spring is dripping with condensation from the warming seas.

Happy Spring Equinox from Michigan, lol!

Ein schönes Ostara/schönen Frühlingsanfang an alle, die feiern!

(Ein Herzensbild, was ich schon lange zeichnen wollte, jetzt hab ich mir endlich die Zeit genommen ).

Have a listen to the #darkhabitspodcast about #springequinox #ostara via the link or wherever you find your podcasts!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4LHR8c8UgSLzDCTGOmSipW?si=90268ed1f8384cc3

Happy #SpringEquinox #Ostara (#AutumnEquinox in the Southern Hemipshere) everyone!

Now marks the time when the sun passes over the celestial equator in the Northern Hemisphere.

Many modern pagan traditions celebrate the season’s change from dark winter to brightening #spring. The roots of this equinox celebration are found in ancient pagan holidays: #Eostre and #Liberalia.

link:
https://www.darkhabits.net/post/spring-equinox-ostara

Happy September Equinox! Wherever the land finds you, Second Harvest Blessings and Blessed Spring! #autumn #spring #witch #paganism #mabon #ostara #harvesthome

“Which we can all agree came after the fourth millennia BCE and also after the first century AD,” is how that bit should have gone. #easter #ostara #judaism #passover #pesach

Sid seems to have a thing for Easter. Or Ostara. He gets really bouncy this time of year.

Eh, anyway, the eggs come from where everything else in the Forest comes from. Obviously.

(Bit big for chicken eggs, though...)

Happy Ostara Festival! Sorry Christians, you should not have stolen this holiday. Go invent something original for once. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre

Ein wunderschönes Ostara/schönen Frühlingsanfang euch allen! Ein super schöner Tag heute und es wird langsam alles grün, hach!

Happy Ostara, everyone.

The Osterbaum is up, happy equinox all!
We've been doing this for a few years now, as a family, and we add a couple new blown-egg ornaments each year to commemorate.

I love the idea of modern mythology. Stories don't have to be ancient to be valid. As long as people keep telling them, and contemplating them, they become myths. So here's me keeping the tradition alive, telling a popular, modern Pagan mythology about the Spring Equinox:

Ostara, Goddess of the Dawn, was walking through the woods on the morning of the equinox. She was giving her blessing to all the growing buds of life beneath the soil, when an injured bird fell from the sky at her feet.
She was not able to heal the poor bird's delicate wing, and she transformed it into a hare so that it would be able to live on the ground. The bird was thankful to survive, and went along on its way.

The hare soon discovered that although it was now a rabbit, it still laid eggs as if it were a bird. Embarrassed, it hid the eggs in the woods where the local children would find them, and they too would receive the blessings of the Goddess.

Blessed Ostara!

#Ostara marks the Spring Equinox, which happens between March 19 -23. Ostara is a pagan celebration of the German goddess Eostre and the origins of the Christian celebration of Easter. As the beginning of spring Ostara is a good time to literally and figuratively plant seeds for the future.
What you plant during Ostara will be ready to be harvested during the coming summer months and the sabbats of Beltane, Litha and Lughnasadh.

Little early but I had time today for some Spring / Ostara photos :)