Spring Maidens and Easter Bunnies #spring #easterbunny #ostara #osterhare

Sarah's Angels - Easter (Meadow Sweet Grove collection)

​​Spring is in the air!  Spring has sprung!  A spring is his step!  Spring fever!  All these exciting expressions of Spring express the same thing --- the hope, delight and anticipation of newness. Perhaps there will be new experiences, new acquaintances and, of course, a renewal of the old, tried and true.

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Vintage Easter Card

​How appropriate then that the Easter Bunny  is often accompanied by a young girl in modern art depictions.  Or maybe, in older times, the Spring Maiden, or Ostara, was accompanied by an Oster Hare, as he is called in Germany.  There is some contention on this matter as to whether or not the Spring Goddesses of older days were connected with hares, eggs and other symbols of Spring at all ... or if that is a more modern connection recorded around about the time of the Grimm Brothers.  It matters not.  In the minds of the eternal, the connection was made because it is the correct one.  They both represent youth, hope and beginnings ... in every way the very essence of Spring!  ​

Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts

Sarah's Angels (Meadow Sweet Grove collection)

Meadow Sweet Grove © V. Buchanan 2017 ​​