Why I Don’t Celebrate Easter… But Honor the ancient resurrection

Every spring, the world awakens. The earth softens, flowers rise, and life returns where there once was stillness. Across cultures and centuries, this season has always been sacred; a time of renewal, rebirth, and fertility. Long before modern Easter traditions, ancient peoples honored this turning of the wheel in ways deeply connected to the spirit of the land.

And that’s part of why I’ve chosen not to celebrate Easter as it’s commonly known today.

Instead, I honor the resurrection of it all… Isho / Yeshua (Jesus), Ishtar / Eostre / Ostara (Goddess), Spring (Season), the Earth (Realm)… blending intentionally, with spiritual clarity.

The word “Easter” is widely believed to be connected to Ishtar (Eostre or Ostara), a goddess associated with dawn, fertility, and the renewal of life. Her common familiars are eggs, hares, and the blooming earth; representing abundance and creation, the sacred return of life after winter’s death. Winter was typically harsh and came with death and decay.

Shamanic traditions have always honored the rhythms of nature… the death and rebirth cycle, the balance of light and dark, the unseen spirit moving through all living things. Spring is not just a season; it is a threshold. A crossing point between what was and what is becoming.

But this is where my path begins to separate from the traditional modern celebration of Easter.

I deeply respect the ancient honoring of the earth and its cycles, I honor the denied divine feminine energy/essence/aspect and believe in the resurrection of the Shaman Isha / Yeshua (Jesus) and Ishtar / Eostre / Ostara. So I merge all those honors and beliefs to the totality Resurrection.

There are three narratives that meet in this season...

The rise of Ishtar / Eostre / Ostara (creation and destruction)

One is the story of the earth awakening.

The other is the story of a risen Savior.

For me, celebrating Easter is a blended tradition. Where fertility symbols and resurrection truth coexist… feels spiritually aligned.

It mixes three sacred spaces:

• The honoring of earth-based cycles

• The resurrection of Christ, which stands outside of those cycles

• The ancient resurrection of a Goddess, the sacred creation and destruction

And while many people find a need for separation rather than combination, my calling is the beauty in that blend.

Shamanism has taught me to listen closely to the spirit, to truth, to what resonates deeply rather than culturally. And what I’ve come to understand is this:

I can honor the Creator without adopting every tradition that formed around it.

Instead of participating in Easter traditions, I choose something quieter. More rooted. More real.

I sit with the story of the cross.
I reflect on the weight of sacrifice.
I honor the resurrection not as a holiday, but as a living truth.

In many ways, this is deeply shamanic in itself.

It is about direct connection.
Personal revelation.
Stripping away layers to encounter the sacred without distraction.

And in doing so, I find a deeper connection…

Not just to the rhythms of the earth,
but to the One who stands beyond them.