Spring Equinox

The vernal equinox, when daylight is evenly balanced with darkness for the first time since September, has always been marked as a time of rebirth. And it is widely celebrated with eggs. (Eostre, a Germanic goddess of spring and new life who Lent her name to: the Christian holiday of rebirth, was honored by the eating of eggs-sometimes brought by a rabbit, according to Ole Legend.) An obvious symbol of spring and fertility, eggs can stand upright (at least in theory) on the date of the equinox, a practice that promised ((load tuck in ancient China. In ancient Persia, Greece, and Rome, and present-day Iran, red eggs are given out to celebrate the arrival of spring, according to urban shaman Donna Henes newsletter Always in Season.