Since Easter is about hunting and finding hidden prizes, here are a few topical finds from around the blog. I’ve saved you the trouble of digging for them:
From Happy Easter, Bonnie – you can see a bunch of photos of me and Bonnie Belle growing up, starting with her introduction to the family as an ad hoc Easter Bunny in 1992.
From Celeste Killed the Easter Bunny – you can admire Celeste and her fresh rabbit kill. Don’t miss the story which goes along with the photo.
Celeste killed the Easter bunny.
From The Easter EGGEs – you can enjoy video of my dogs going nutz playing with a hard plastic egg. Consider this before you get either a Border Collie or an Egge.
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And from Grandma Wants Candy – you can admire my photo-editing skills with some old lady abusing a rabbit to get it to poop out jelly beans.
I hope you spend the day like they have since pagan times: celebrating life, family, a little fun, and good food.
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Ostara the most holy, thou hast certainly blessed us all!
(Even though if you look up this goddess, you won’t find it anywhere but some second hand sources. LOL)
retrieverman recently posted..Miley catches the Easter rabbit
Well, good point how ever you see it in your world.
Regardless it is a good time of year to start your seedlings. If you grow your own vegetables or a herb garden, start getting the soil ready for late spring plantings.
Let’s face it is time to get outside and celebrate life and balance of light and dark as the sun begins to tip the scales, and the return of growing season. .
It is my understanding modern Wiccans and Pagans celebrate Ostara as a time of renewal and rebirth. Take some time to celebrate the new life that surrounds you in nature — walk in park, lay in the grass, hike through a forest. Take in and observe all the new things beginning around you — plants, flowers, insects, birds. Meditate and celebrate the change of seasons.
Personally, I attempt to do both to Celebrate that Christ arose from the dead too.
“Happy holidays”
We all get two weeks off to do the pagan stuff in Europe, a very popular holiday period. Many from the North head to the Med for a short break and early taste of springs fecundity.
The Greeks do Easter especially well. My favourite is Easter in Athens where the rich smell of roast spring lamb and rosemary wafts in the night air, candle lit processions hoisting the virgin Mary wind through ancient streets. Dark alleys at night sparkling as if by so many stars, flickering light and tall shadows as they mysteriously pass and vanish into the dark.
[wink] Of course a hell of a lot more is happening after dark where it’s the golden phallus glowing bright that holds centre stage. Pumping music, packed throngs glimpsed through cracks in concealed doorways. Occasionally spilling onto streets the action envelops you into the orgy, all but useless to resist the hedonistic power as it sucks you back in with it …
Im based in Asia now where I got drenched in buckets of water this last week for my troubles instead. The Thais do it by simulating rain to encourage a good rice crop after a long parched very hot very dry season.