“Spring Palomino Colt” from Microsoft Clip Art 
This is what we call “April Fool’s Day”. Yet, to our Ancestors, this was the day for “Love”. Romans, Greeks, and Norse-Germanic traditions celebrated the goddesses of love, sexuality, orchards and growing things, and water.
This day symbolically represented the day of planting. It was, therefore, necessary to have the Blessings of the Goddesses, for the second Universal Law is “all creation comes from the female”. Women offered fires and incenses and wine to the Goddesses Aphrodite, Venus, Freya, and Hathor (Egyptian). In return, the women wanted a blessing on love, family, birthing, and joy for the next part of their life. In some cases, women might even court the man to let him know they were interested, and then drop him, so that he, in turn, would court her.
It was this day that made fools out of lovers, and lovers out of strangers, for sometimes, the Goddess would sprinkle potions on the food and drink of the humans. It was a day that nothing serious should happen except for the extolling of the virtues of one’s beloved.
April is also the time of the pairing of birds (love birds is the nickname for this time of year), and the building of nests. Baby animals are either present or on their way. This is the month of the “Budding Trees” Full Moon. Planting begins and is sometimes completed during the month.
May your April bring newness to your life!
Blessings,
Judy
