Wishing you a Most Merry Beltane!

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

Blessings of May Eve!

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

Will Parvati win Shiva’s heart?

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

Parvati

Banded with a tinkling girdleHeavy with breasts like the frontal lobes of young elephants.Slender of waist,with face like the full moon of autumn…— Hymn of Praise to ParvatiAs we approach the Great Sabbat of Beltane, we not only celebrate the dancing of the phallic Maypole, but also the rejoicing of the glorious bride, like Parvati. … Read more