At the Spring Equinox we Pagans, Wiccans, magical folk, celebrate Oestara. Oestara is where the abrahamic religions got the word Easter. Oestara is the germanic name for this holiday. But no matter what name you give this day, it's the Spring Equinox, and a day to celebrate rebirth. Trees are beginning to bud, there may even be some green blades starting to pop out of the ground where tulips will soon be. Tulips are my favorite spring flower. As a child, they were my first sign that warm weather was quickly approaching! My mother had tulips planted in front of the big tree in our front yard. When the weather would start to change, I would run to the front door in the morning to see if the green blades were starting to pop up yet. And when they did, I checked them everyday and would marvel at their progress until finally one morning there would be a bightly colored, dew drenched flower. Ready for a visit from the local bee hive.
