Easter, or Ostara, is a Pagan Goddess of spring and fertility, celebrated around the time of the Spring Equinox. Because rebirth is a recurrent motif in many Pagan religions, the death and resurrection of Christ could be forced into an already existing theme. Easter is the root of the word estrogen, the female hormone, and the egg 🥚, as a powerful symbol of potential new life, is celebrated at Easter in the eggs
given to children. In Russia, the egg takes the form
of Pysanka, delicately painted hard boiled 🐔 eggs. Easter contains the word east, the Germanic Ostara has the same meaning. Her name is also spelled Eostre, which connects Her to Eos or Aurora, the dawn 🌄 Goddess. Rather than the daybreak, She represents spring - the dawn of
the year. Lilith ⚸ is a form of Her Middle Eastern
counterpart, thus lillies are displayed during Easter. Easter is traditionally celebrated on the Spring Equinox (March 21st). Christians wanted to obscure the origin, so they randomized its date. Now it's the 1st Sunday following the full moon 🌕 after the Equinox. Thus it can occur anytime between March 22nd to
April 25th. Yet honoring both the day of the 🌞
& the cycle of the 🌙 still seems pretty Pagan.
