Vernal Equinox, also known as Ostara, occurs on March 21. Around this time, the days and the nights have become about equal. This is the time of rebirth. The Germanic Goddess Ostara, also known as The Goddess of the Dawn, is the tutelary deity of this holiday. It is she, as herald of the sun, who announces the triumphal return of life to the earth. Witches in the Greek tradition celebrate the return from Hades of Demeter's daughter Persephone; Witches in the Celtic tradition see in the blossoms the passing of Olwen, in whose footprints flowers bloom. The enigmatic egg, laid by the regenerating snake or the heavenly bird, is a powerful symbol of the emergence of life out of apparent death or absence of life