Spring Equinox

[The Hammer]

Does anyone have any plans for the Vernal Equinox? We are a little over two weeks away now.

I'm going to celebrate but I haven't decided exactly how yet.

 

[Martin]

Does anyone have any plans for the Vernal Equinox? We are a little over two weeks away now.

I'm going to celebrate but I haven't decided exactly how yet.

I might get up early to see in the sunrise. I usually do that for the solstices.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Likely my usual offerings with poetry and music.

 

[VoidCat]

Not sure

 

[The Hammer]

Likely my usual offerings with poetry and music.

I like to Drum on the high days myself. Never really done written/verbal poetry for them, but I guess, what is ritual but poetry in motion?

 

[Guitar's Cry]

I like to Drum on the high days myself. Never really done written/verbal poetry for them, but I guess, what is ritual but poetry in motion?

I sometimes drum, as well!

 

[Ashoka]

I am going to make plans to start gardening. I have a small patch in my backyard where I can start growing things.

 

[The Hammer]

I've decided I'm going to do a small ritual and give my usual offering of food and drinks to the Kindreds. Also, read some poetry, and drum.

I'm hoping to get up to do it around the astrological equinox (830am here). Here's hoping my alarm wakes me

 

[Hildeburh]

Don't celebrate it. There is zero evidence that pre Christian Germanic pagans celebrated the spring equinox.

Please enlighten me if you have found evidence to the contrary, otherwise I consider this a spillover from the neo Wicca Wheel of the Year.

 

[The Hammer]

Please enlighten me if you have found evidence to the contrary, otherwise I consider this a spillover from the neo Wicca Wheel of the Year.

I don't see this as a bad thing. A pure reconstruction is all but impossible, wouldn't you say? Or are there living Germanic Cultures that extend to the Neolithic we could ask?

Edit: Eostre/Ostara may only be attested to "textually" via Bede of the 8th century, but the linguistics and etymology of the name goes back much further. Kind of like Cernunnos, a "lost" God to the sands.

Eostre