On the evening of the MayRound the fires burning gayWitches dance the night awayAnd that’s good enough for me! When the rednecks say we’re sinningI don’t care, ’cause we are winningAnd this is only the beginningAnd that’s good enough for me! Come and join the celebrationPour the Goddess a libationYou don’t need initiationAnd that’s good … Read more
The Fairy Tree ©WillowIn several traditions, today is a holiday called the Veneration of the Thorn. It honors the magical hawthorn tree, which is often the guardian of sacred wells and other holy places. The hawthorn (Crataegus mongyna, Crataegus oxyacantha or the botanical nightmare of nearly 300 other Crataegus species), is a member of the … Read more
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.— Folk saying Today is the National Day of Prayer, a day that has been set aside in the U.S. by presidential proclamation for 57 years. A visit to the official National Prayer Day website reveals that it is overwhelmingly Christian-based, with a half-hearted nod to Jews. … Read more
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers … Read more
Hail to the Summer!Hail to the Summer!The season that drives the cold Winter away! Hail to the Summer!Hail to the Summer!Light your bonfires –Today is Beltane!— ©Spiral Dance – Magick Known as Beltane, Beltaine, Cedsoman or Ceadamh (Irish for the “first of Summer”), May Day, Rood Day, Rudemas, or Galan Haf, today is the celebration … Read more
Today is May Eve, Walpurgisnacht, Beltane Eve! Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring? Growth in every thing – Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, Grass and green world all together, Star-eyed strawberry breasted Throstle above Her nested Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin Forms and warms … Read more
But since it was down for 3 days, and no one got to visit it, I am not writing a new update until … well, actually not until Beltane, since tomorrow’s entry will be the Card of the Week. So while I’m hanging out, maybe I’ll just share with you how gorgeous it is, here … Read more
To any of my friends who have been unable to get onto my website in the past 2 days, I apologize. The service I use that simplifies my URL has been disrupted. I pay “Sitelutions” to invisibly whisk my visitors to the real (but more complicated) URL address that is on my actual Internet Service … Read more
Philadelphia Shuts Down Psychics By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: April 27, 2007 Filed at 12:23 p.m. ET PHILADELPHIA (AP) — They never saw it coming. City inspectors shut down more than a dozen psychics, astrologers and tarot-card readers after learning about a decades-old state law that bans fortune telling for profit. Inspectors did not make arrests … Read more
Through the beauty of a woman —the best way to give content to the Absolute. — Saundarya LahariAs we approach the Great Sabbat of Beltane, we rejoice in the Maiden aspect of the Goddess, for now She is the bride filled with love and longing, like beautiful Parvati. Our story so far… The Great God … Read more