Christmas always fall on 25th December yet Easter floats from year to year how come?

[ms6869]

Surely Good Friday and Easter Sunday and the events that mark them happened on given set days and dates so why does Easter not come at the same time give or take 6 days to coincide with the changing cycle of the days of the week?

My point is it should always fall within the same week of the year, shouldn't it?

[Kerry]

I've thought that too.

[proc]

It falls on the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox. this is the earliest it will fall for the next 150 yrs or so

I think its also Pagan in its new begining, as well as the resurection. its all to do with crop growth. and the start of a new season. crops grow to the luner cycle as do most of the wildlife start to breed.

the full moon in november is the end of the crop cycle too.

but this is just old fashioned nonsense