Spring Maidens and Easter Bunnies

Sarah's Angels (Easter)

​​"Spring is in the air". "Spring has sprung". "A spring in his step". "Spring fever". All these jubilant and energetic expressions of Spring express the same feeling ... the hope, delight and anticipation of new life. Perhaps Spring will bring new experiences, new love, new young ones, and of course, a rebirth of nature!

Vintage Easter Card

​How appropriate then that even now, bunnies are often shown as a young girl's companion in modern art or home decor.  Perhaps, in older times, the Spring Maiden, or Ostara, was accompanied by an Oster Hare, as the Easter Bunny is called in Germany.  There is some contention on this matter as to whether or not the Spring Goddesses of ancient days were connected with hares, eggs and other symbols of Spring at all ... or if it is a more modern connection recorded around the time that the Grimm Brothers collected their fairy tales.  It matters little to us plebeians! In the eternal mind, the connection was made because it is the correct one.  Bunnies and girls both represent youth, vitality and beginnings ... in every way the very essence of Spring!  ​

Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts

Sarah's Angels (Spring)

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