It is a celebration of balance and a festival of fertility. This second Sabbat is the trinity of spring celebrations is also a time of blessing seeds for future planting. In Wales, Ostara was known as Lady Day and signified the official return of the Goddess from her long winter hibernation. Many of the myths associated with Ostara concern trips by dieties into the mysterious underworld, and their struggle and eventual return to the land of the living. Ostara comes from a Latin name for the Spring Goddess Eostre, for whom Easter was named. In fact, the story of the Easter Bunny which delights children so much in America comes from the legend of a humble little rabbit's dealings with the Goddess Eostre. As the legend goes, a lowly little rabbit wanted so much to please his Goddess that he laid sacred eggs in her honor and decorated them in beautiful rainbow colors. When the rabbit presented Eostre with his gift, she was so pleased that she desired for all humans to share in her joy and asked the little rabbit to go throughout the world distributing the little gifts.

During Ostara, eggs are decorated and used as altar decorations to honor the Goddess and the God, as well as carried as magickal talismans for fertility. As sacred objects of life and fertility, eggs are also given as cherished gifts. The Great Rite, symbolic of the sexual union between Goddess and God and of the physical and spiritual union between all men and women, began to be enacted on the day of Ostara. The positive effects of this rite, a form of sympathetic magick, helped to bring fertility to the people, the land, and their animals.