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My untraditional Ostara's symbol: the unhatched egg 🥚

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I have spoken about Ostara and how I make use of the changes that characterize spring in my previous entry . But there's something I left outside and that I wanted to share because it has given me so much strenght and determination for my life, both in a daily basis and during hard times. May you get the same things by reading this entry and remembering it.  Hollywood and other cinema trends, commercials, social media and maybe even fairytales had led us to believe that life is easier than it is. They show you a main character experiencing some difficulties in life, but getting all of them over to be finally rewarded with a long lasting happy ending. I'm pretty sure this taught is wrong not only because it's not real but also because it conditions our brains to believe that if we work hard enough, we are supposed to get what we want. Therefore, if you experience failure in your life or you get to live unwanted things, the intuitive conclusion that comes from that view is th

Ostara-Spring Equinox

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On this 22th September in 2021, at 16:20 in Santiago of Chile (press here to see the time equivalence in your zone) is the Spring Equinox. When wespeak about the hour and minutes in which the equinox occurs, it's because we're speaking about a specific position in which the Earth is respecto to the Sun. Although this astronomic position last only a precise moment, during that day and the closer days it is possible to observe an equivalent quanity of hours of light and darkness (or day and night). This, in conjuntion to the gradual growth in the light-hours, makes the beginning of the season that we clasify as spring. This phenomenum has originated different celebrations and traditions around the world because of the progressive start of this season (which obviously we began to perceive before the equinox) is associated to different aspects that were vital to the agricultural society from the past and that actually keep on being vital for the subsistence both from the world tha