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20th March is the first day of spring, the Vernal Equinox, when day and night are of more-or-less equal length. Spring has been celebrated throughout human history as a time of rebirth following the "dying of the year" in winter. The ancient Germanic festival of Ostara (in honor of the goddess also known as Eostra, from whose name the words estrogen and Easter are derived) celebrated the return of light and life with fertility rituals and symbols The egg being the most obvious of all fertility symbols, ancient egg-related customs survive not only in the form of egg-rolling and Easter-egg hunts, but also in the quaint belief that you can stand a raw egg on end on the first day of spring. Apparently this superstition derives from the notion that due to the sun's equidistant position between the poles of the earth at the time of the equinox, special gravitational forces apply. It’s not true, but try it anyway.
20th March is the first day of spring, the Vernal Equinox, when day and night are of more-or-less equal length. Spring has been celebrated throughout human history as a time of rebirth following the "dying of the year" in winter. The ancient Germanic festival of Ostara (in honor of the goddess also known as Eostra, from whose name the words estrogen and Easter are derived) celebrated the return of light and life with fertility rituals and symbols The egg being the most obvious of all fertility symbols, ancient egg-related customs survive not only in the form of egg-rolling and Easter-egg hunts, but also in the quaint belief that you can stand a raw egg on end on the first day of spring. Apparently this superstition derives from the notion that due to the sun's equidistant position between the poles of the earth at the time of the equinox, special gravitational forces apply. It’s not true, but try it anyway. 
