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Summer Is Coming!
The days of warmth and light are here! Located roughly halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice, Beltane represents for many Pagans the true start of summer as well as a day of celebrating the Earth’s fertility. In many Pagan circles it’s second only to Samhain—its opposite end—in importance.
In our annual megapost, we’ve gathered for you the full collection of this year’s articles at PaganSquare about Beltane and related subjects. Additionally, we’ve included some more posts we’ve gathered from around the web that we hope you’ll find interesting. May you have a happy summer! Blessed Be!
-Aryós Héngwis
Beltane Posts:
- Tiffany Lazic. “Of Antler and Wing”
- Eileen Troemel. “Beltane”
- We’Moon. “Beltane Blessings!”
- Danu Forest. “Beltane Magic”
- Steven Posch. “Bealtaine in the Streets”
- Steven Posch. “Make Your Own Bealtaine Bannock”
- Erin Lale. “May Day with Loki”
- Tim Titus. “Mirth”
- Candise. “The Sweetness of Beltaine”
Spring Posts:
- We’Moon. “April Tidings”
- Leni Hester. “Signs of Spring”
- Eileen Troemel. “Spring?”
- Jane Meredith. “Spring Medley”
- Natalie Zaman. “A Wand for Spring”
- Candise. “Walking into the Fires of Spring”
- Rachel Patterson. “To Wheel or Not To Wheel”
Life and Fertility Posts:
- Nimue Brown. “Celebrating the Greening”
- Harita Meenee. “Eating the Flesh of the Goddess”
- Dr. Mays. “Indigenous Divine Creatrixes”
- Erin Lale. “Pranked by Nature”
- Raven J. Demers. “Washing the Greenman”
Cool Stuff We Found:
- 11 TED Talks for Pregnancy and Birth
- Abbotsford House
- All Rise for the May Queen!
- Are You Worried about Your Fertility? Young People Share Their Stories
- Aztec Goddess Xochiquetzal
- Beltane and the Gifts of Darkness
- Beltane Lovers – Once you Go Witch You’ll Never Switch
- A Beltane Meditation – Life-making with the Green Man
- Beltany Stone Circle
- Birth Is Not Performance Art
- Bluebells
- Contemplating the Sun
- Crow and the Vernal Egg
- An English Beltane Festival
- Fertility Egg Spell
- Halfway to Halloween
- Happy Beltane/May Day
- High Key Cherry Tree
- It’s Beltane!!!
- Kraków
- Merry May Day
- On Earth Day, Let Lab Girl Persuade You to Plant a Tree
- Palestinians Create New Seed Bank To Save Their Farming Heritage in the Holy Land’s Hills
- Parham House
- Plant Basil With Tomatoes for a Natural Pest Repellant (and Other Garden Tricks)
- A Portrait of Spring
- Red Cliffs National Conservation Area
- Researchers Create Natural Insecticidal Proteins To Target Resistant Bugs
- Santorini, Greece
- Scientists Just Made Sperm Out of Human Skin Cells and It Could Change the Way We Conceive
- Solar Flare Is Beautiful, Terrifying in 4K High Def Video by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Summer Pagan Festivals 2016
- Talking to the People Who Raise Your Favorite Breakfast Fruit
- These Three New GM Crops Will Change How We Farm
- This Is How Pagans Celebrate May Day
- Venice, Italy
- What Is the True Cost of Food?
- Wiccan Deal-Breakers
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