Ostara _ rituals, recipes, & lore for the spring equinox ( PDFDrive )

Vernal or Spring Equinox
Holidays or Traditions Occurring During
Ostara in the Northern Hemisphere Religious
Dionysus or Bacchus Day (Greco Roman, March 16–17) Annunciation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary or Lady Day (Catholic, March 25) Palm Sunday
(Christian, the Sunday before Easter) Good Friday (Christianity, the Friday
before Easter) Easter (Christian, the first Sunday after the first full moon after
the Spring Equinox) Passover (Jewish, fifteenth day of Nisan, which begins on
the night of the full moon after the northern Vernal Equinox) Secular
St. Patrick’s Day (while originally the Catholic Feast Day of a Saint, it is
celebrated more as a secular holiday in the United States on March 17)
Holidays or Traditions Occurring During
Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere Religious
Feast of Jupiter, Juno, Minerva (Nova Roma) Michaelmas (Catholic Christians)
Birth of the Virgin Mary (Catholic Christian, September 8) Secular
Floriade (largest flower festival in the Southern Hemisphere) [contents]