April is my favourite time of the year and the month I was born in. Growing up in Northern Europe I absolutely adore that first sense of spring in the air, when the ground is warming up and releases that sweet, earthy smell and the days are getting lighter and milder. I have always related April to new beginnings and rebirth.
April is also the season of the Germanic Goddess Ostara or Eostre who personifies this. She is the Goddess of spring, dawn, renewal, fertility and rebirth. Her symbols are the hare, the full moon and eggs. She is part of the maiden aspect of the triple Goddess.
The Christian Easter dates are still determined by the phase of the moon and has borrowed its name from the goddess of spring herself. Even the hormone Eostrogen that is essential for women's fertility has been named after her.
In my research about the Divine Feminine within our ancestries I keep getting amazed by the richness of the Goddess traditions in all of our ancestries and how much it still influences and even created so many of our traditions and practises that we take for granted. The Goddess was always there and still is...
Art by Mickie Mueller
