Why does Easter come on a different date every year???
Easter falls on a different day each year, because it is traditionally the first Sunday after the Jewish holiday of Pesach, or Passover. That’s because of the Christian belief that the last supper of Jesus was a Passover seder. And Passover falls on a different day each year because our calendar system is solar, not lunar. Pesach is a Jewish holiday, and Judaism uses a (mostly) lunar calendar. So Passover is always on the full moon, typically the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. If you use a lunar calendar, then the dates of lunar holidays stay the same. But if you use a solar calendar, then the dates of lunar holidays are different each year. The spring equinox is Eostre, named after a pagan fertility Goddess, and that is always right around March 20th or 21st. Many of the customs associated with Easter — eggs and bunnies and flowers and so on — originally came from Pagan celebrations of the spring equinox, and they celebrate fertility and the renewal of life in spring. The
