Spring Equinox Eggs

Boil a handful of an herb or flower until the water is well colored. Place the water into a heat-resistant cup or bowl. Stir in a teaspoon of vinegar and a pinch of salt and soak the eggs in it. If you don't want to waste food, you can use empty shells and use the yolk for cooking. With a needle, poke a small hole at the top, and a slightly larger hole at the bottom of a raw egg (make sure you puncture the membrane inside the shell). Hold the egg over a bowl and blow into the top hole until the egg is empty. Gently wash the inside of the shell. You now can decorate the empty shell.

To get different colors use the following:

Yellow: Carrots, white grape juice, turmeric, fenugreek
Orange: Onion Skins, Madder Root, Cayenne
Red: Red onion skins, madder root, cayenne
Red-Violet: purple grape juice, red rasberries
Green: Carrot tops, bracken
Blue: Blueberries, Red Cabbage,
Black: rasberries
Blue-violet: Blackberries, Beet juice, Mulberries
Pink: Heather

The meaning for the colors:

White: Purity, birth, virginity, and ignorance.
Yellow: Youth, light, purity, happiness and wisdom
Red: passion, love, enthusiasm
Orange: Endurance, strength, power
Green: Renewal, freshness, hope, victory of life over death
Brown: earth
Blue: Sky, good health derived from air
Purple: patience, trust and power
Black: remeberance, eternity, constancy, death

Decorating eggs at the Spring Equinox is not a new idea. They were in use long before any connection with the Christian Easter. Red eggs in particular were given by many cultures as gifts during this season, in remembrance of the Great Goddess and Her life-renewing abilities

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