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This year we celebrated our Beltane in our simple way as usual. This time I couldn't afford to prepare any special meals, but we did our dance around a improvised maypole ... the good things we wish for our lives, hoping they'll come true.
After that, we simply went to bed, and that was our Beltane night! I thanked for being blessed with my sweet son, and asked for strenght to keep in motion. ...
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... 's endâ€. According to the old Celtic two-fold division of the year, summer was the interval from Beltane (May 1) to Samhain (October 31), and winter was the interval between Samhain and Beltane. This is (along with Beltane of course), is one of the most important days on the Wheel of the Year. The present year ends at sundown today, and a new year is ...
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... Imbolc one looks at a bowl of Water to scry the future. Beltane is the time to look in to the Fire and burning embers to ruminate about ... Hemisphere's Samhain with the Southern Hemisphere's Beltane and mines the deeper implications of this union-of-opposites: ... its counter.
In hand with our northern Samhain is southern Beltane, which speaks to remind us that in the hand of death we will find ...
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... 39;m a bit blah over the whole Southern Hemisphere pagans smugly reminding everyone that it's Beltane this weekend, not Samhain, which is what Halloween really is and you're all doing it wrong you silly cowan blah blah. I don't ... s house. It made me really happy. So happy Halloween and fuck the bozos. Happy Beltane, happy Samhain, in fact happy October 31, no matter what you call it. Have ...
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... some Pagans have yet to perform their rites,and our friends in the Southern hemisphere are just wrapping up Beltane, a good number most likely performed some sort Samhain ritual observance last night (including Reclaiming ... if any of my loyal readership spots any post-mortem looks at Samhain rituals (or Beltane rituals if your Australian) in the press, please share the link in the comments sections.
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Beltane is gone for another year, and yet, all over Australia, Halloween was also celebrated. The Love Festival and the Day of the Dead. I will show in this essay that the two are not so far from ... laughter. BG has quickly retreated to her on line dating, and I have retreated to my tesseract of blokes.
Beltane: a beautiful, hot, humid day, complete with love-making, and a resolution to myself ...
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