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Equinox at the site of Pizzo Vento, Fondachelli Fantina, Sicily. Dita e Verës or Verëza is the Albanian pagan feast that celebrates the spring equinox: the beginning of the spring-summer period. It is traditionally celebrated throughout Albanian inhabited territories, also officially in Albania.
In 2024, the spring equinox occurs on March 19. Learn about the meaning of this event in astrology and read your horoscope by zodiac sign.
Systematically observing the sunrise, people discovered that it occurs between two extreme locations at the horizon and eventually noted the midpoint between the two. Later it was realized that this happens on a day when the duration of the day and the night are practically equal and the word "equinox" comes from Latin aequus, meaning "equal", and nox, meaning "night".
Spring equinox means the first official day of spring is here. Discover the science and traditions of what’s also called the vernal equinox..
The Met Office explains the difference between meteorological spring and astronomical spring
Spring equinox or vernal equinox or variations may refer to: March equinox, the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere; September equinox, the spring equinox in ...
The spring equinox—aka the vernal equinox or simply, “the first day of spring”—is coming up this Saturday, March 20th. In the Northern Hemisphere, this means that the sun crosses over the ...
Ostara is a name for the spring equinox in some modern pagan traditions. The term is derived from a reconstruction produced by linguist Jacob Grimm of an Old High German form of the Old English Ēostre , an Anglo-Saxon goddess for whom, according to Bede , feasts were held in her eponymous month , which he equated to April in the Julian calendar .