Boo! I'm back briefly and now that the eggs have hatched I'm going to post the links I found. Feel free NOT to read them if you find them offensive or whatever. And if you are young get permission or maybe have a parent sit with you and read with you. I'm not trying to influence anyone in religion in any way. I'm just showing links that show information I found that talk about Easter customs and their origins and such. Please no drama over the links. Thank you!
1. http://www.earthwitchery.com/ostara.html (my favorite link and what got me thinking we would be having a white rabbit/goddess plant
2. http://www.wicca.com/celtic/akasha/ostara.htm (not a lot of information but has some interesting stuff anyway)
3. http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=…olidays&id=1991 (this one is loaded with information about religion and how and why we celebrate Easter, and the fact that most of the things we do at Easter (decorate eggs, hide eggs, a quote from the page: "But if we look more closely at some of these Easter customs, we will see that the origins are surprisingly, well, pagan! Eggs, bunnies, candy, Easter baskets, new clothes, all these "traditions" have their origin in practices which may have little or nothing to do with the Christian holiday.") another words pagan activities were pulled over into the holiday and no one seems to have noticed or cared!)
As you can see by the actual links and the brief summary by the links you can see what the links are about. Feel free to click on them if you want. And if you don't want to.. then don't.