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• Dancing with the Beloved Dead at Beltane

  
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  It seemed like an odd time of year to be thinking about death.Its spring; life is bounding forth.  Its Beltane, a welcoming of spring and celebration of all the new and returning life in nature.But two things happened: I was getting ready to go to the semi-annual gathering of the Quaker Concern Around Dying and Death ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beltane essay

  
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  As promised: my essay on Beltane (click on the link!) I am gradually uploading essays into the Spirituality/Sacred Year section under ARTICLES, on each of the eight traditional holydays. These pieces were written initially in 2003 for my old newsletter Planetary Energies, and edited annually. So for regular readers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thurs. May 2, 2013: Car Massage

  
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  Thursday, May 2, 2013 Waning Moon Saturn Retrograde Sunny and gorgeous Yesterday was certainly a day of challenges. Someone flaked on me — someone with whom the “no flake discussion” had been held. The writing on the novel went badly. I sent in the proofreading test and got an auto response that I failed and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is your spiritual path a labyrinth?

  
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  First off, yesterday was Beltane and I was somewhere warm.  That was wonderful.  (Whats "warm"?  Er, 15 C / 59 F.  My, how my standards have changed...)Yesterday afternoon I was walking an outdoor, grass labyrinth (in the warm sun, mmmm).  There was a moment when its path took me very close to the center.  But ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beltane Blessing

  
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  Beltane Blessing Oh God, bless our flocks and bearing kine; Hate nor scath let not come near us, Drive from us the ways of the wicked. Keep thine eye every Monday and Tuesday On the bearing kine and the pairing queys; Accompany us from hill to sea, Gather thyself the sheep and their progeny. Every Wednesday ...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy Beltane!

  
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    Beltane or Beltain ( pron.: / ˈ b ɛ l t eɪ n / ) (also Beltine or Beltaine ) [ 1 ] is the Gaelic May Day festival. Most commonly it is held on 30 April–1 May, or halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice . It was observed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beltane Fire Festival lights up Edinburgh sky as thousands turn out for annual event

  
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  By Dailyrecord.co.uk 1 May 2013 09:33 THE Beltane Fire festival on Edinburghs Calton Hill is held to mark the start of summer each year with theatre displays, dance and acrobatics. The Beltane festival celebrates the coming of summer and the beginning of May. Getty Images FIRE illuminated the Edinburgh ...
  3 weeks ago

• May Day!

  
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  Happy May Day! The Gaelic May Day festival known as Beltane (Beltaine) in the western world is here once more. The big seasonal wheel in the sky is at one of the eight spooks of the, the halfway point between the Spring Equinox and the upcoming Summer Solstice on June 21st.As many of you know I have a special kinship ...
  3 weeks ago

• May 1st

  
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  A Blessed Beltane or May Day to you all. A lovely image by one of my favorite artists, Alphonse Mucha. Get out there and enjoy the day, watch the flowers sprouting from the ground and, if available, bask in the sunshine.  I have a bunch to do today, quilts I must finish, designs to work on . . . but we will ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Merry Beltane To One and All!

  
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  Hail Thalia, Grace of Flowering and Mirth! Hail to The Lord and The Lady! Hail to the King and Queen of Faery, to blessed Flora, and to Maia Majestas! Hail to the Summer! Hail to the Summer! The season that drives The cold Winter away! Hail to the Summer! Hail to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• May 1, 2013: Beltane and Writing

  
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  Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Waning Moon Saturn Retrograde Sunny and pleasant Beltane It’s Beltane! May Day! Time to dance around the maypole! Yesterday, I had a frustrating writing day. Granted, the work on the short story was good, but I struggled with the novel. And I had to get two chapters written. There is ...
  3 weeks ago

• The First of May: You Call it May Day; I call it Beltane, a Wiccan Sabbat

  
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  International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the international labour movement. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries.  All around Europe people are celebrating with a day off or a “bank holiday.” England will ...
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• A Few Sexy Things You Didn’t Know About May Day

  
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  Every May Day was a brilliant celebration at the private grade school in New York City where I used to teach. Towards the end of April, the teachers erect a huge pole in the playground, and the children spend several days preparing their ribbons and practicing their dance moves. Finally, on May 1, come the [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Beltaine (5)

  
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  THE BELTANE BLESSING BLESS, O Threefold true and bountiful, Myself, my spouse, and my children, My tender children and their beloved mother at their head. On the fragrant plain, on the gay mountain sheiling,      On the fragrant plain, on the gay mountain sheiling. Everything ...
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• Wordless Wednesday - May Day walk in the wood.

  
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  3 weeks ago

• Happy Beltane 2013!

  
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    Beltane is, in the Pagan Wheel of the Year , the day we celebrate the return of the summer (isnt that much needed right now?) As Ive written before, Tim and I feel drawn to a Pagan way of living, in that we love the sense of living in harmony with nature and the seasons and looking after ourselves and our ...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy May Day!

  
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  May Day, the Celtic festival of Beltane ( Calan Mai in Welsh) and the festival of Walpurgis in the Germanic languages is a spring festival in the Northern Hemisphere.  It traditionally signalled the beginning of summer, hence the alternative Welsh name of Calan Haf (first day of summer) falling half a year after ...
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• Maypoles and Mayhem - The Traditions of May Day

  
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  Wessex Morris Men at Sunrise on Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas Beltane , or May Day (1st of May) is the fertility festival marking the beginning of summer.   Every May Day morning at dawn, The Wessex Morris Men climb up to the top of Giant Hill, above the famous chalk figure and fertility symbol The Cerne ...
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• Gay Beltaine

  
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  Beltane is coming up, with all its "Tra-la, Its May!" imagery. If you do an image search on Pinterest for "beltane" or "beltaine" you get lots of saucy pictures of white folks dressed in scanty scraps of green, with crystals or elk horns stuck on their foreheads. Or you get suggestively posed trees. Theres some ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beltane’s Arrival

  
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  The first day of May has always been such an important date for me.  Not only is this the first faerie festival of the year, it also heralds the arrival of all kinds of young things. Like these Louisiana walking iris.  I noticed two days ago that there were more buds close to opening than I’ve ever seen on this ...
  3 weeks ago

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