1/3 Happy #Easter! 🐰🥚🌼 #DYK the holiday has its roots in a #pagan festival celebrating the #springequinox (when the length of nights & days become equal) in the Northern Hemisphere.* The equinox happens when the Earth’s axis & its orbit line up, giving both hemispheres an equal amount of sunlight.
We use an astronomical calculation to work out which day Easter lands on ✖️➗🔭
*Note that this is the autumn equinox for us down under 🌏
It's the first day of spring which means that the Morris will be danced up in the Ramtops today. Which Discworld book starts with the words “The Morris dance”?
"…only in one place have they got it right. It's a small village high in the Ramtop Mountains…
There, the men dance on the first day of spring, backwards & forwards, bells tied under their knees, white shirts flapping.”
Bright blessings to you all this #SpringEquinox morning.
My morning walk to greet the dawn was mostly damp and misty but the sun did appear eventually and there were deer. #TheSmallThings#SpreadingJoy
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.
The spring equinox is nigh!
Astronomical spring will have officially sprung in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 at 3.06am UTC.
Brighter days are coming... #SpringEquinox
🌸 Happy Vernal Equinox to everyone on Mastodon who lives in the Northern Hemisphere, where the astronomical spring season is just beginning! 🌼 To you all in the Southern Hemisphere, may this Autumnal Equinox heal your hearts & bring you together. 🍂 Wishing a happy 🐇 Ostara 🪺 to those who celebrate the renewal of nature & fertility. May this day of length equal to the night fill you up with warm feelings of connection & abundance! 🌺 #SpringEquinox#AutumnEquinox#OstaraCelebration
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.
Love, lust, and leeks: Siobhan Ball offers us the legends and folklore surrounding the leek, a vegetable that ancient pagan cultures sometimes saw as revolting and sometimes as a symbol of desire, alongside a delicious leek stew that’s perfect for celebrating the Spring equinox.
Looking for an adult craft idea for Spring Equinox. We planted seeds last year so not that.
I thought about maybe having each person weave their own little next out or lemongrass, then decorate mini eggs with what they want to fertilize in their life over the growing season.