tuned to their harvest cycles).
The next celebration is the Yule or Winter Rite which is followed by Imbolc or Brigid’s day. Brigid is the Celtic Goddess of Fire, poetry, healing, childbirth and Unity who is celebrated as a powerful Triple Goddess. Some Wiccans create a bed or resting place in their house for this Deity.
Ostara or Festival of Trees is the time Easter is celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere. This holiday is named after the Goddess Ostara and symbolizes the rejoining of the Goddess with her lover-consort. Ostara is also considered to be the virgin Goddess of Spring. It is considered bad luck to wear new clothes before Ostara, and people work through the winter to make new clothes that they can wear on this day. This may be the reason there is so much emphasis on new clothes for Easter. Lambs and Rabbits were part of the ancient Ostara celebration and they too seem to have been passed over to the current Easter holiday festivities.
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