Eggs like mandalas and hares of Venus.

Easter symbolizesexcept the vision of the resurrected Christ, the lamb, the hare and the egg. The Lamb - we know why: Christ was crucified on the eve of the Jewish Passover, during which rams were sacrificed, and was symbolically understood as the Sacrificial Lamb. But where did the hare and the egg come from? The Bible barely mentions eggs, and Jewish law is reluctant to talk about the hare, considering it as an animal unclean and inedible to Orthodox Jews, like a pig. But it is not known whether it was a hare!How not to overeat on Easter. Do hares lay eggs?Hebrew word soap the name of this animal is rather mysterious and was translated as a hare, a rabbit, as well as a hedgehog and even a badger. Most likely, it was a Syrian hyrax, a beautiful rock-climbing herbivore, common in Israel to this day, but having nothing to do with a hare, because it is closely related to ... elephants. So the hare as a symbol is not from the Bible - let's look for another clue. 

The hare or rabbit, as these animals were commonly mixed, was associated with Venus in ancient times as a helper animal.

Of course, the reason was the great ferocity of these animals, which was often observed in "love games." In addition, he has a nice fur, pleasant to the touch. In northern Europe, the hare (or rabbit) was also associated with the Germanic goddess of love and fertility - Freyja. Freya had her separate incarnation as the goddess of spring and spring rebirth of life, in this role she was known as eostre Or Ostara, and so was the name of her spring holiday. Everything becomes clear when we remember what is easter called in english Easterand in german Easter - also from their name of the pagan holiday and the name of the goddess. Read more: Yule, the pagan holiday of life. Her second sign was egg, and a symbol of the revived world among many peoples - from China, through Iran, to Europe. In Germany they said that "hares lay eggs at Easter." Such a tale was told to children, but ... once it could be the slogan of people initiated into the old pagan rites cultivated on the side of official Christianity. 

In ancient times, it was said that this is a magical bird that can heal even the terminally ill. You just need to catch this bird and bring it to bed with a sick person. When a sick person looks into the eyes of a plover, and a plover into her own, the bird "sucks" the disease out of the person, and when it is released, it will fly high and there, in the sky, "burn the disease." This tale passed into Christianity, where the charadrius was perceived as a likeness to Christ the Savior.Plover eggs are colorful and are associated with a map of the sky dotted with stars. This is my personal association, because astrologers associate everything with the stars. But it is interesting that Easter eggs have been painted and are still being painted - in various parts of Europe, probably most often here and among our Slavic neighbors - mandalas, i.e. circles divided into equal parts by rays, and similar stars and flowers. Wherever the mandala pattern appears, it symbolizes the whole world and the unity of cosmic forces. So is the resurrection of God. Get energy from the colors of Easter eggs.Easter bull symbols.Easter can fall at the earliest on March 22.03 and at the latest on April 25.04 - so it usually falls when the Sun is in the sign of Aries, and much less often in Taurus. And yet the symbols of Easter are more Ox than Aries.

Mild youth is a trait of the Taurus sign, not the Martian Aries. In the same way, the hare - a gentle and loving animal - became the favorite of Venus, who owns the sign of Taurus.

Queue egg it is a symbol of fertility and new life, as well as a symbol of Venus. The egg is round - and roundness is associated with Venus, as its opposite - sharpness and angularity - with Mars. As if people celebrating Easter are already thinking about the coming sign - Taurus. Check out the weekly horoscope for Taurus., astrologer