…Eosturmonath (the Easterly month) is with us…

…the month of celebrating the burgeoning Spring: the lambs, the laying-like-crazy hens, the hare going crazy to lay like a hen…

…dye your Eostur eggs naturally with vinegar, red cabbage, onion… and decorate with sun signs…

…candles should be yellow and green, altar-cloth of green…

…roll fires downhill, just as at Midsummer’s and Lughnasa…

…the Equinox birds are nightingale and sparrow…

An old charm to honor a tree:

When nights and days are balanced and halved
Cut from the branches March has saved
Twelve supple wands all budded green
Twist them together to weave a crown.

Summer will come, and the winter wind
Turning and turning the leaves on their stems
Then they must fall, but now in Spring
The twig is bound, but the bud remains.

Hang the leaf from a sturdy limb
of Oak or Maple, or Ash or Elm,
Thus will the tree live long and well..

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