OSTARA March 20-22. Celebrated on the Vernal Equinox, date varies. DARK.
		OSTARA Ostara is celebrated at the SPRING EQUINOX, when day and night are equal. It is considered the high point of the Spring season, when life is bursting forward in all directions. Like Imbolc, Ostara is a Festival of the dawn and of increasing life. Ostara comes from the Germanic word “Ost” or “East,” a reference to the dawn and the renewal of life. The rituals of Ostara celebrate renewed life in many forms; eggs, a symbol of rebirth, are painted in bright colors and used in sacred rites before being eaten. Baby animals, especially chickens, ducks, and rabbits, are symbolic of the season. The Rabbit, ancient symbol of the Moon, represents the Earth’s renewed fertility. Ostara is a Solar Sabbat and is sacred to the Young God, Lord of the rising Sun and of Life. He is the custodian of the growing plants and animals, as well as the growing light of the Sun. This God has many names, but He is particularly venerated as the Green Man, in which form He is shown surrounded by greenery and breathing it out from His lips. In this form He is also known as Green Jack, or Green George. Sometimes he is represented as a tree. “Maypoles” are sometimes used as part of the Ostara festivities, and represent the phallus of the Young God. Ostara is also known as Eoster (pro; “EH-yoh-ster”, “eh-OH-ster” or “YOH-ster”), Alban Eilir (AL-bahn EYE-lir), or simply as Spring. Ostara also has strong feminine connotations, and is sacred to the Maiden Goddess as well as the Young God. Ostara and Eostre are both Germanic names of the Maiden Goddess as Lady of the Dawn. - excerpted from the First Degree Course of the Correllian Nativist Tradition of Wicca as administered on Witchschool.com
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