Tag: Beltane
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Beltane Blessings
Ask some folk about Beltane and they’ll grin and wink and talk about fecundity; albeit it in more Anglo-Saxon terminology, usually. But it’s not essentially about shagging each other senseless – indeed the senses are particularly important about now. These ritual moments with which we delineate the annual circumnavigation of this blessed rock about our sacred star…
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Beltane Blessings
“The time is out of joint; O curs’d spite, That ever I was born to set it right!” With weather such as we’ve had recently it’s hard to feel the burst of life that even now is pushing through into the landscape. Summer feels so far away (I think it was mostly in February and March) but…
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Thought for the Week – Beltane
Celebrating Beltane A little time back, thousands of folk in the UK including me roared out in opposition to the mass sell-off of public woodland and forestry. The government heard and for once acted on public pressure, and currently the Forestry Commission’s role as holder of our forest estate continues. There is another roar of…
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Sumer is i-cummin in…
Blessings of the passion-fires of Beltaine. 😀 It pays, I find, to mark the seasons as they pass by. Not only as a pagan, but as someone for whom time flies past ever faster! It doesn’t seem yesterday that Imbolc celebrated the new buds of spring and now the May is already in full blossom.…
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