Equinox means "equal night" and this happens because the sun is positioned above the equator and at this time of the year - day and night are about equal in length all over the world. The Spring Equinox is sometimes referred to as the Vernal Equinox – vernal means spring so together the Vernal Equinox means “Spring Equal Night and Day”. This is the start of the Astrological year when the Sun enters the Sign of the Ram (Aries). The famous Egyptian priests built their Great Sphinx to point directly toward the rising Sun on this day every year.
The Spring Equinox is also called: Alban Eilir, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day, NawRuz, No Ruz, Ostara, Ostra, Rites of Spring. To Druids it is the time when day and night are equal in length and this happen when the Sun is at 0* of Aries and again in the Autumn when the Sun is at 0* of Libra. It's a time to celebrate that we made it through winter and that signs of life are popping up all around us.
Before there were clocks, the passage of time was measured by solar alignments and the penetration of the sun into stone passages to exactly light up a section of a stone with carvings upon it. This happens even today so the ancestral calendar is still accurate. The same solar alignment that determines the correct time for Spring Equinox is also the exact same alignment for the Autumn Equinox. This means if you were to stand outside of Cairn ‘T’ at Sliabh na Callighe or at Knowth and look 88* east of north you would see the sun rise to shine in through the passage and onto the Quartz standing stone inside on the Spring and Autumn Equinox.
The Spring Equinox is also called: Alban Eilir, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day, NawRuz, No Ruz, Ostara, Ostra, Rites of Spring. To Druids it is the time when day and night are equal in length and this happen when the Sun is at 0* of Aries and again in the Autumn when the Sun is at 0* of Libra. It's a time to celebrate that we made it through winter and that signs of life are popping up all around us.
Before there were clocks, the passage of time was measured by solar alignments and the penetration of the sun into stone passages to exactly light up a section of a stone with carvings upon it. This happens even today so the ancestral calendar is still accurate. The same solar alignment that determines the correct time for Spring Equinox is also the exact same alignment for the Autumn Equinox. This means if you were to stand outside of Cairn ‘T’ at Sliabh na Callighe or at Knowth and look 88* east of north you would see the sun rise to shine in through the passage and onto the Quartz standing stone inside on the Spring and Autumn Equinox.
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