My Fledgling Apiculturist First Bee Installation: Happy Easter

My bees are coming today! I'm meeting up with Andrew Coté and the other members of the NYC Beekeepers Association down in the East Village to pick up our packages of bees from Georgia.
Wow, what a way to celebrate Easter!
Easter gets its name from the Teutonic goddess of spring and the dawn, whose name is spelled Oestre or Eastre. The origin of the word "East" comes from various Germanic, Austro-Hungarian words for dawn that share the root for the word "Aurora" which means " to Shine"!
In some early cultures, the nocturnal hare was actually considered a symbol of the moon. In addition to feeding at night, the hare's gestation period is approximately 28 days -- the same as a full lunar cycle. In European folklore, the rabbit connection to eggs is one based on confusion. In the wild, hares nest in what is known as a form -- basically, a nest for bunnies. When the hares abandoned a form, it was sometimes taken over by plovers, who would then lay their eggs in it. The locals would then find eggs in the hare's form.
The character of the "Easter bunny" first appeared in 16th-century German writings, which said that if well-behaved children built a nest out of their caps or bonnets, they would be rewarded with colored eggs. This legend became part of American folklore in the 18th century, when German immigrants settled in the U.S.

The energy of Ostara has been a huge harbinger of goodness for me this year. Ostara was the holiday I began circling with my new to me coven, Polyhymnia in Queens. Pluto is in my Sun Sign and today the Moon is in Scorpio. The Plutonian energy of rebirth, spring, growth, vitality and fertility surrounding makes me very hopeful for a little bunny of my own soon.