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	Spring Equinox Ostara Ritual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Spring Equinox is a time to celebrate the balance of the seasons and of the passage from night into day, the arrival of Spring, the renewal and rebirth of Nature herself, and the coming lushness of Summer.
		The time of the Spring Equinox is a time to celebrate the renewed fertility of the Earth with the coming of spring, and many Goddesses were recognized by different people all over the world, and throughout history.
		The Egg, the Rabbit, and the Chick, are all Pagan fertility symbols associated with Ostara and the Spring Equinox.
	geocities.com /sophialinus/Ostara.html (2216 words)

	Vernal (Spring) Equinox
		This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
		For the Southern Hemisphere, this is the moment of the autumnal equinox.
		Translated literally, equinox means "equal night." Because the sun is positioned above the equator, day and night are about equal in length all over the world during the equinoxes.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/riteofspring1.html (412 words)

	American Spirit Newspaper - Spiritual Rights Foundation
		Spring holidays have been celebrated at least since the beginning of recorded history.
		Spring arrives when the earth is tilted so that the sun is directly over the equator.
		The return of spring in ancient times was of more consequence than it is to us today because winter food storages ended, crops could be planted and people didn't have to worry about how to stay warm.
	www.americanspiritnews.com /MA96/Html/VernalEquinox.html (811 words)

	Equinox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As such the vernal equinox is the equinox where the Sun passes from south to north, and is a zeropoint in some celestial coordinate systems.
		The vernal equinox, the one the Sun passes in March on its way from south to north, has a special significance in astronomy as it marks the origin of both ecliptic coordinates and equatorial coordinates, and also the start of the sidereal day.
		The spring equinox marks the Wiccan Sabbat of Ostara (or Eostar), while at the autumn equinox the Wiccan Sabbat of Mabon is celebrated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spring_equinox (3487 words)

	San Francisco Shamans: Spring Equinox
		In these processes the spring equinox is still a time of the unmanifest but is coming closer to the manifest.
		The equinox is given special power in terms of being balanced-between the spiritual and the material.
		Spring is the time of childhood, of the Mabon.
	www.shamans-sf.org /calendar/spring_equinox.html (904 words)

	Spring Equinox - Crystalinks
		In astronomy, the vernal equinox (spring equinox, march equinox, or northward equinox) is the equinox at the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere: the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading northward.
		There are two conventions for dealing with this: either the name of the equinox can be changed to the autumnal equinox, or (apparently more commonly) the name is unchanged and it is accepted that it is out of sync with the season.
		The day of light and dark equality always happens before the spring and after the fall equinoxes, according Geoff Chester, a public affairs specialist with the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. "Exactly when it happens depends on where you are located on the surface of the Earth," he said.
	www.crystalinks.com /spring.html (1519 words)

	BBC - Gloucestershire Weather - Spring Equinox
		Does spring begin on the 1st of March, or is the spring equinox the true indicator of its arrival?
		The equinoxes occur because the axis of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is inclined at an angle of 23.5 degrees.
		At the vernal equinox the Sun’s apparent position is on the celestial equator and it then continues its northward journey until the summer solstice, at which time it reaches its greatest northern extent, over the Tropic of Cancer.
	www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/weather/2003/03/equinox.shtml (580 words)

	Astrology Vernal Equinox - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		There are several definitions of the vernal equinox, depending on whether it is being thought of as an event in time, with respect to the length of the daytime, an event in time, with respect to the Sun and the Celestial Sphere or an event in space, with respect to Sun and the stars.
		However, the connection between vernal equinox point and Aries is no longer correct because the vernal equinox point has moved.
		The Sun is in yellow, the path of the Ecliptic is shown in red and the horizontal gray line in the center of the image is the Celestial Equator.
	www.geocities.com /astrologystations/springequinox.htm (1250 words)

	Spring Equinox celebrations of Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, etc
		Under the new system, 1582-MAR-21 CE became the date of the vernal equinox, the year 1582 was shortened by ten days, and future centennial years (1600, 1700...2000) were not considered leap years unless they were divisible by 400.
		On the spring equinox, she mated with the solar god and conceived a child that would be born 9 months later on DEC-21: Yule, the winter solstice.
		Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times.
	www.religioustolerance.org /spring_equinox.htm (3277 words)

	New Science: The First Day of Spring (03/16/01) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is the first day of spring north of the equator, and the first day of autumn in the southern half of the world.
		Spring equinox: the beginning of spring, often called the vernal equinox.
		Vernal means "of spring." It occurs on March 20th or 21st.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /news/2001/news-vernalequinox.asp (734 words)

	Spring - Spring Equinox, Vernal Equinox, Celebrating Fall Equinox
		Spring equinox marks the beginning of the beautiful, bountiful and colorful Spring season.
		The Spring equinox had huge significance to them and was marked by much grandeur and gaiety because of the promise it brought with it.
		March equinox, as Spring equinox is also called, is significant in almost all parts of the world.
	www.123greetings.com /events/spring/info/spring_equinox.html (609 words)

	Spring has Sprung
		The equinox is one of two days of the year — the other, the autumnal equinox, is in fall — when Earth's orbital path passes through the celestial equator.
		The spring equinox is used to determine the date of Easter.
		The Hindu festival of Holi is celebrated on the full-moon day of the spring equinox and is sometimes known as the "festival of color." In ancient times the holiday was connected to the wheat harvest.
	www.riverdeep.net /current/2002/03/032502_spring.jhtml (1647 words)

	Spring Equinox \| Holiday \| Easter \| Flowers \| History \| Pagan \| Season \| March 20, 2006 \| Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eostre is the Pagan holiday that celebrates the return of spring and the balance between light and dark on, or around, the Spring Equinox.
		In modern Russia, eggs are still given as presents on the graves of ancestors in spring at the start of farming season.
		It has been said that on the exact hour that winter turns to spring (around noon on the Spring Equinox), you are able to stand on an egg that is end-on-end without breaking it.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1921.htm (271 words)

	VERNAL EQUINOX
		The vernal equinox, is also known as "the first point of Aries," is the point at which the sun appears to cross the celestial equator from south to north.
		It is believed by many ancient cultures, that the coming of "spring" removes any negative energy accumulated over the dark winter months and prepares the home for the positive growing energy of spring and summer.
		Each Spring Equinox, at the time of the ancient agricultural festival of sowing, sunlight was allowed to enter the length of an open passage from the doorway of the temple over the high altar and into the Holy of Holies.
	www.gurdjieffdominican.com /equinox_spring.htm (574 words)

	The Equinox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Sun in the sky during the Spring and Fall Equinox in the Northern hemisphere.
		On the Spring Equinox the Sun rises exactly in the east travels through the sky for 12 hours and sets exactly in the west.
		On the Equinox this is the motion of the Sun through the sky for everyone on earth.
	solar.physics.montana.edu /YPOP/Classroom/Lessons/Sundials/equinox.html (150 words)

	alban eiler (spring equinox)
		Like the fall equinox, the spring equinox is one of two days in the year when the length of day and night are equal.
		The fall equinox marks the beginning of the dark times, when daylight hours are waning and dark hours are on the increase, and the spring equinox is just the opposite.
		Astronomy defines the spring equinox (also called the vernal equinox) as simply the moment at which the sun passes over the earth's equator.
	www.toad.net /~lefay/spring.html (523 words)

	Spring (season) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer.
		Astronomically, some Western countries consider spring to begin with the spring equinox (around March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere, and September 23 in the Southern Hemisphere), and ends with the summer solstice (around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21 in the Southern Hemisphere).
		Severe weather most often occurs during the spring, when warm air begins to invade from lower latitudes while cold air is still pushing from the polar regions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spring_(season) (592 words)

	Spring Equinox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spring Equinox is the time when day and night are equal, when plants begin to burst forth from the earth, leaves appear on the trees, and insects begin to move once again.
		Spring is the time when Persephone returns from the underworld as a young girl and she and her mother, Demeter, Goddess of the Grain, giver of the crops, play together in the fields and usher in new growth.
		The egg was used as a symbol for Eostar as it represented the birth of the Goddess and all of nature.
	www.mindspring.com /~stardancer/sprngnox.htm (117 words)

	Spring Equinox News
		Spring Equinox News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		People raise their hands toward the sun during a celebration of the spring equinox on top of the Pyramid of the Sun at the Teotihuacan archeological site in Mexico.
		Although spring begins in March with the vernal equinox, as the sun appears to cross the equator, the only sign of spring is usually more sunlight.
	www.topix.net /holidays/spring-equinox (539 words)

	Celebrating Spring Equinox - School of the Seasons
		The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year.
		The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth, the morning star and the east.
		Demeter is reunited with her daughter, Kore (the essence of spring), who has been in the Underworld for six months and the earth once again teems with life.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /spring.html (1918 words)

	Spring Equinox News - Page 2
		It was originally a heathen fesitival held to mark the vernal or spring equinox.
		Spring in much of the United States has three start dates: March 1, when the Weather Service says; March 20 or so, the vernal equinox; and today, when daylight-saving time begins.
		Spring has sprung a little late at the Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center but it's a case of better late than never for its supporters from the five tribes in the San Gabriel Mountains.
	www.topix.net /holidays/spring-equinox/page2 (840 words)

	FAQ-Equinoxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Day and night are not exactly of equal length at the time of the March and September equinoxes.
		On the day of an equinox, the geometric center of the Sun's disk crosses the equator, and this point is above the horizon for 12 hours everywhere on the Earth.
		On the dates of the equinoxes, the day is about 7 minutes longer than the night at latitudes up to about 25 degrees, increasing to 10 minutes or more at latitude 50 degrees.
	aa.usno.navy.mil /faq/docs/equinoxes.html (432 words)

	Creative Minds Unlimited: Herbal Lore: Myths and Ceremonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 24 hours of March 20, known as the Vernal Equinox, are divided into equal numbers of light and darkness, and herald the beginning of the Spring season.
		Spring requires that we replace complaints with affirmations, dispair with hope, stagnancy with movement, death with re-birth.
		With your nose, smell the smell of rich dark moist earth nurturing new life, smell the aromas floating on the Spring breeze, smell the lilies of the valley, smell the rain.
	www.create.org /elchai/herbcer3.htm (2164 words)

	Pagan Holidays - Ostara-Spring Equinox
		Spring Equinox is celebrated as the sun enters Aries, the fire sign of action and energy.
		Eggs are painted to honor her, to celebrate the new life of spring.
		The altar is decorated in bright, vivid colors with spring flowers in the center and at the four directions.
	demented-pixie.com /pagan/ostara.shtml (423 words)

	KWTX \| First Day of Spring: Vernal Equinox March 20, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Considered as a time, rather than a point on the sky, the equinox occurs from March 19 to March 21, the precise time being about 5 hours 49 minutes later in a common year, and about 17 hours 26 minutes earlier in a leap year, than in the previous year.
		For observers in either hemisphere not at the poles, the further one goes in time away from the vernal equinox in the 3 months before that equinox, the more to the south the sun has been rising and setting, and for the three months afterwards it rises and sets more and more to the north.
		A common old wives' tale regarding the vernal equinox is that this is the one day of the year that eggs can be balanced on their end.
	www.kwtx.com /unclassified/1362432.html (591 words)

	Fall Equinox celebrations of Christianity, Pagans, Neopagans, etc.
		Replacing the spring equinox by the Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
		It is held on MAR-25, on the nominal date of the spring equinox according to the old Julian calendar.
		It is thought that the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes, being the most temperate times of the year, are ideal moments to reflect on the meaning of life.
	www.religioustolerance.org /fall_equinox.htm (2632 words)

	Spring Equinox Meditation and Prayer Celebration - Meditation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The spring equinox marks equal hours of light and darkness, and in the northern hemisphere it is a time of moving toward growth in the natural world; an inspiration for accelerated growth in our lives.
		As the equinox is a marking point, it is an opportunity for celebration of the spirit running through us all.
		Here is a plan for an equinox celebration for a group of people to hold outdoors - at the beach, park, in the mountains, or another space big enough wherever you live.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art29089.asp (385 words)

	Equinox ~ Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Equinox is a lightweight version of AppFuse designed to accelerate starting a webapp with the Spring Framework.
		I was inspired to create it while writing Spring Live and looking at the struts-blank and webapp-minimal applications that ship with Struts and Spring, respectively.
		Equinox is designed to show webapp developers how to start a bare-bones webapp using a Spring-managed middle-tier backend and Hibernate for persistence.
	demo.raibledesigns.com /equinox (307 words)

	Holiday Insights : Spring (Vernal) Equinox
		Spring brings out these thoughts and more for both ladies and gentlemen.
		The other thing to note is that the Spring Equinox is just a calendar date.
		From a standpoint of weather in your area, real spring arrives sooner or later depending upon where you live in the Northern Hemisphere.
	www.holidayinsights.com /other/spring.htm (199 words)

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