Beltane Planting Moon Yes, the Great Wheel has turned again, according to the calendar. But. Not according to my […]
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Beltane Beltane Moon May Day. Brings up cold war images for me. If you’re of a certain age, you remember black and white television with Kruschev or […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon The old Celtic calendar divided the year into two seasons, Summer and Winter. Summer began on Beltane, May 1st, and ended at Samhain, Summer’s End, at October 31st. Summer is the growing season, the time when a subsistence farming economy like that of the Celts in Britain and Ireland raised food […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon As spring winds down toward Beltane on May 1st, the green up has taken on an accelerated pace. We have leaves on trees like the Amur Maples, ash and feathery new leaves on the oaks as well. The daffodils and tulips have brightened our April for some weeks now. The more […]
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Beltane Waxing Flower Moon Beltane marks the beginning of the growing season so fertility is the essence of the celebration. In a pre-refrigeration, pre-food preservative (except salt and drying) culture fertility during the growing season carried with it survival, for animals and humans. Thus, anything to encourage the land and to safeguard the animals that […]
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Beltane Waxing Flower Moon As is the case with all Celtic holidays Beltane began at sundown. Over the years that I have kept the Celtic calendar, now 14 years at least, Beltane signals a real shift from the getting going of spring to the active growth of summer. Some years that’s more obvious than others […]
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Beltane 2011
Beltane (May 1) Waning Bee Hiving Moon A bit about how I got interested in the auld religion, the ancient Celtic faery faith and from it, the Great Wheel. 23 years ago I left the Presbyterian ministry and wandered off into a life I could never have anticipated. The writing turn I took then led […]
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