When we view Eostre from this perspective, to me she starts to make much more sense and feel more like a representation of the qualities of the changing season that we are invited to notice for ourselves.

When seasonal celebrations become named and fixed in the calendar, we often miss their original purpose. Nature-based practices were never going to be about scripted rituals or any doctrines or marketing, or about buying the ‘correct’ altar decorations. Something much older, simpler, subtler and more important is lost when we forget our living relationship with land and the sky and replace our own experience with prescription, instruction or consumerism, or when we only follow what we are told we ‘should’ be celebrating…

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