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Hekate

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10. Spring!

Fri Apr 14, 2017, 12:12 PM

Apr 2017

Keeping a couple of hens in my suburban yard taught me so much about these old symbolic holidays. Like -- they stop laying in the Fall and don't start again until mid February, or Imbolc. Count on it. Also, their eggs are such pretty colors! And until they got used to the nesting box, I used to have to hunt for their pretty eggs all over the back yard.

Now just wait for May Day and the > ahem < Maypole.

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Happy Oestrus, Everyone! [View all] MineralMan Apr 2017 OP

Right cilla4progress Apr 2017 #1

Thanks for the reply. MineralMan Apr 2017 #2

Well, alright then. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2017 #3

Big pagan holiday cilla4progress Apr 2017 #4

Back atchya! 2naSalit Apr 2017 #5

Same here. Randy sparrows and bunnies MineralMan Apr 2017 #8

Yup... 2naSalit Apr 2017 #19

Our wild, mated pair of mallards just showed up this MineralMan Apr 2017 #20

That's so cool. 2naSalit Apr 2017 #23

Oestrus?! meow2u3 Apr 2017 #6

LOL... 2naSalit Apr 2017 #24

Indeed! longship Apr 2017 #7

I have to laugh at the "Easter" symbols NastyRiffraff Apr 2017 #9

That remains a joke played on the Church. MineralMan Apr 2017 #14

Lambs were more common in the tradition I was raised in Retrograde Apr 2017 #16

You forgot the chicks! Ilsa Apr 2017 #25

More rabbits Warren DeMontague Apr 2017 #28

Spring! Hekate Apr 2017 #10

Well, there's a reason Easter comes when it does, and MineralMan Apr 2017 #11

In most languages, the word for Easter is derived from Passover Retrograde Apr 2017 #17

Yes. I knew that, actually. MineralMan Apr 2017 #18

And 'oestrus' seems to be just a coincidental pun, of course muriel_volestrangler Apr 2017 #30

Absolutely. The Maypole and the May Dance MineralMan Apr 2017 #15

Blessed Be! Coventina Apr 2017 #12

Indeed! And you as well. MineralMan Apr 2017 #13

Oestrus iz hawt jpak Apr 2017 #21

Indeed it is. MineralMan Apr 2017 #22

are people still saying "hawt"? Warren DeMontague Apr 2017 #27

Yep. I know what the bunnies really represent. Warren DeMontague Apr 2017 #26

The holiday is "Pascha" in Latin and similarly in Greek struggle4progress Apr 2017 #29