Paska

This design is adapted from one that appears in Eggs Beautiful -- in particular, I changed the border. This traditional design is called "Paska" because it looks like the top of paska bread, a traditional bread made at Easter.

On this pysanka:
Leaves: renewal, the spring
Flowers: charity and good will
Pussy willow: anticipation of spring
Eight-pointed star: life force, love of God
Ram's horns: strength, leadership, and creativity
Baskets: knowledge, providing for others
Dots: seeds
Spirals: mysteries of life and death, divinity and immortality

Final color, dark red: passion, action, hearth