When is Easter this year?

By Andrew Rutajit

I don’t remember how old I was when I figured it out, but I was quite young and ever since, it has really bugged me that Christians need to see marshmallow Peeps and chocolate bunnies at the store to remind them that Easter is a month away. And if you were to remove all that crap from the stores and remove the word "Easter" from of all calendars, Christians might miss Easter completely. But, the Christian gods is a jealous god and to remember your son’s birthday and forget the day his son conquered death…well, let’s just say, that wouldn’t play out to well; so, they get Peeps and Cadbury Eggs as a reminder.

Typically, if you take Jesus Christ out of the picture and replace him with nature, things get much clearer; Easter is no exception. In this case, the Jesus character is the sun god and Easter marks the yearly ritual and festivities in honor of his conquering the death of winter. It’s unfortunate that most Christians will never appreciate this event in its full splendor.

It’s not only the celebration of the rebirth of the sun god; it is also the celebration of the fertility of spring. Easter is an amazingly fractalized ritual, at least the timing of it all is. The Easter egg hunt, the potluck dinners, the dressing in white clothing, the Easter bunny, etc. all have their place in the rituals of Easter, but the timing (up to and including the “sun rise” church service with the theme, “He is risen”) is a dead giveaway that Easter’s heredity is sun worship and not deity worship.

So, when is Easter this year? It’s the same time as it was last year, it isn’t an arbitrary date. To find Easter:

First, you wait until the vernal equinox (the first day of spring).

Next, you watch for a full moon.

Finally, you wait until the following SUNday and that is Easter. Many Christian churches will have a SUNrise service that morning at the break or dawn.

Easter is as close to spring as you can get while the moon is a full as it can be, on the day of the sun (Sunday), and the celebrations begin at sunrise. Easter is quite literally the day of the Splendor Solis.

Fiat Lux!