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Fire and Fertility: Let’s Hear It for Beltane!
Merry meet! Today is Beltane (also spelled Beltaine or Bealtaine), the ancient Celtic festival marking the start of summer and a celebration of fertility. Beltane is also closely associated with both the Germanic festival Walpurgisnacht and English festival May Day (and, by association, International Workers’ Day), which also mark today. For your general enjoyment and spiritual purposes, we’ve gathered all our posts related to this very special day. We hope your summer is a pleasant one, full of joy.
--Aryós Héngwis
Beltane / Walpurgisnacht Posts:
- Steven Posch. “Bavarian Beltane”
- The Cunning Wife. “Beer, the Sacred Drink of Health”
- Carl Neal. “Beltane Incense”
- Molly. “Beltane Moon”
- Joanna van der Hoeven. “Beltane Rites and Lore”
- Cascade Grove. "A Druidic Beltane”
- Christiana Gaudet. “Reveal, Deal, Heal”
- Catharine Clarenbach. “The Sweet Beltaine of a Butterfly”
- Steven Posch. “Turn Left at Aphrodite”
Fire Posts:
Life Posts:
- Suzanne Tidewater. “No Permission Needed”
- Lizann Bassham. “Pretty Purple Flowers and My Brain on Cancer”
- Kate Delaney. “Something Like Rebirth”
Spring Posts:
- Bee Smith. “Bring on the Blackthorn”
- Steven Posch. “Dancing Away the Snow”
- Molly. “Listening to the Infinite”
- Sedna. “Rising with Springtime”
- Mark Green. “Sifting for Gold”
- Eileen Troemel. “Spring Moons and Old Wives Tales”
- Steven Posch. “Two Points in Search of a Line”
Summer Posts:
- Eileen Troemel. “Bring on the Light”
- Steven Posch. “Bringing Home the May”
- Diotima. “The Bull at the Carnival”
- Sedna. “Honoring Our Great Mother”
- Steven Posch. “Hurray Hurray”
- Kate Laity. “May Observance”
Cool Stuff We Found:
- 8 Things To Do For Beltane As a Solitary Pagan
- As a New Musical, Mean Girls Is More Relevant Than Ever, for Reasons Beyond What Tina Fey Says
- Blessed Walpurgisnacht
- California Needs To Stop Saying Everything Causes Cancer
- Demeter Aesthetic
- Discover Dubrovnik This Summer
- Enjoying the Best Weather in Rio’s Mountain Range
- Future Animism
- Health-Enhancing Citrus Fruits
- Hirosaki Castle
- How Religion Is Coming To Terms with Modern Fertility Methods
- How to Make Self-Care a Priority
- A Maiden in an Emerald Field
- Moody Light
- Moroccan Americans in New York’ Celebrates Mimouna for the First Time
- A New Book Looks at What Life Is Like for Moms across the Animal Kingdom
- Pakistan's Most Wild and Beautiful Places
- Spring Is Busy Time for Bees and Their Keepers
- Summer Afternoon
- Summer Pagan Festivals 2018
- Tibetan Calligraphy Day
- What To Expect From Monster Hunter: World's Spring Blossom Festival
- What is Juan Santamaría Day?
Top image by Andreas Fink
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