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Spring Equinox Sabbat (also known as Vernal Equinox Sabbat, Festival of the Trees, Alban Eilir, Ostara, and Rite of Eostre) is celebrated annually on the first day of Spring. Traditional ritual herbs: acorn, celandine, cinquefoil, crocus, daffodil, dogwood, Easter lily, honeysuckle, iris, jasmine, rose, strawberry, tansy, and violets. Altar decorations traditionally include hard- boiled eggs colored and painted with magickal symbols to symbolize fertility, a lucky rabbit's foot amulet, a bowl of green and yellow jellybeans. Sabbat incense: African violet, jasmine, rose, sage, and strawberry. Sacred Sabbat gemstones: amethyst, aquamarine, bloodstone, red jasper. Sabbat deities: Eostre (Saxon goddess of fertility), Ostara (German goddess of fertility), the Green Goddess, and Lord of the Greenwood. Candle colors: green, yellow, gold, and all pastel shades. The traditional Pagan foods of this Sabbat are hard-boiled eggs, honey cakes, the first fruits of the season, waffles, and milk punch.
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