Eggs at Equinox

My Old English Bantam hens began their laying on or near Equinox. They ovulate on the sun cycle and are not lit or heated unnaturally during the dark Minnesota winter.

So we are supposed to celebrate the balance of light and dark with egg dying and the March Hare mythology. Having to wait until nearly May Day to do my egg balancing ritual (as Easter was designed to never fall on Equinox) really messes up my psyche!

Eostre (the Goddess of Spring) was to be celebrated at Equinox because our menstrual cycles and those of the other ovulating creatures of Earth need balancing in Spring and Fall. It's no good going into the May Season without having a cleanse, a fast and purge of Winter's fatty and dying foods.

The liver, kidneys, lungs, large intestine, and the skin need refreshing in the Spring and Fall.

If we wait too long for this ritual, we adversely affect our bio-rythmic cycles. This is especially important for women of child bearing age. Often our cycles will reverse themselves at the Equinoxes. One half of the year we may bleed on the full moon and then it will switch.

So in the old, old days when women's bodies were worshipped as vessels of the Goddess, we knew exactly when we were fertile and when not. This made certain May and June rituals safer in terms of planned pregnancies.

But, alas. Women's bodies were vilified and treated as vessels of Satan's power. Pariarchal religions wanted women to be weak and in the dark about how our bodies work. In this way they could control women and therefore, the goddess. Destroy them together.

This is why I don't like Easter time. It screws everyone up. Too bad.

I still dye my Eostar Eggs at Equinox. Sigh.
Kari