Vernal Equinox Full Moon Celebration

The first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox is the Vernal Equinox Full Moon. Eostara is a lunar holiday honoring a lunar Goddess at the Vernal Full Moon, whereas the Vernal Equinox (March 21, Sun enters Aries and Spring and the Lunar New Year begin) is a solar holiday celebrating that the hours of light (day) equate those of darkness (night), and thus, the triumph and return of the sun god, who will wait for his maiden goddess to arrive at Eostara. Incidentally, some Pagan traditions began, recently, referring to the Vernal Equinox as Eostara. Historically this is incorrect. The Eostara (Ostara) was held on the Vernal Equinox Full Moon. Of course, the Church doesn't celebrate the Full Moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they planted they Easter (ironically, the name Easter was taken from the name of a Teutonic lunar Goddess, Eostre, from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen) on the following Sunday. So, their Easter is always the first Sunday after the the first Full Moon (the Eostara) after the Vernal Equinox. If you've ever wondered why Easter moves all around the calendar, now you know.

- Source: http://deoxy.org/time/sabbats/03-20.htm

It's time we begin to shed our heavy clothing and head outdoors to run, walk, hike, swim, roam the land and move after the long winter. In the past, this full moon was called the Full Pink Moon (this Full Moon heralded the appearance of the moss pink, or wild ground phlox - one of the first Spring flowers - according to the Farmers' Almanac. It is also known as the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Budding Trees Moon, the Egg Moon and the Fish Moon).

Pink Moon by Jackie Morris Artist

My title: The Eostara. The Maiden Goddess of Spring (Artemis?) and Bear

With four heavenly bodies (Sun, Venus, Mars and Uranus) in opposition to the Full Moon in Libra (a Full Moon is always an exact sun opposition moon; the Full Moon in Libra is the astral moment when the Moon in Libra opposites the Sun in Aries, the very special Aries/Libra axis with its unique characteristics), there's a lot of tension, struggle, polarities at work within our lives and ourselves. Like Artemis (Goddess for Aries, March 21 - April 19), whose bow is symbolic of an exquisitely tuned inner tension, we have to practise balance and harmony, rather than getting caught up in the chaos and disruptive energy being set off by the planets moving into the fire signs and becoming fanned by the winds of the air sign planets.

- Source: http://intuitiveinsightcatherinealmeten.blogspot.com.es/2013_03_01_archive.html