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I will be gone for the entire weekend starting on Friday for a Beltane Weekend celebration, and I do plan to get drunk on the ale. So, to all of my Pagan friends, I'd like to wish y'all a Happy Beltane!

Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

Prepare a May basket by filling it with flowers and goodwill and then give it to someone in need of healing and caring, such as a shut-in or elderly friend. Form a wreath of freshly picked flowers, wear it in your hair, and feel yourself radiating joy and beauty. Dress in bright colors. Dance the Maypole and feel yourself balancing the Divine Female and Male within. On May Eve, bless your garden in the old way by making love with your lover in it. Make a wish as you jump a bonfire or candle flame for good luck. Welcome in the May at dawn with singing and dancing.

Link with Beltane customs. (http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/Beltane.html)

Happy Mayday to you as well.

I shall be celebrating also, but for a different reason. As an International Baccalaurete Diploma Candidate (www.ibo.org) I am nearing my final tests, so to celebrate nearly being done, my fellow IB students and I will be taking copies of all the God-forsaken papers we had to write (including that 4,000 word monstrosity) as well as college rejection letters and will burn them, with pizza, s'mores, and pop for dinner.

It is May day today. To bad it is autumn down here.

Say Willy are things celebrated the same in the two hemispheres? Or would Beltane in the Southern hemisphere be celebrated 1st October?

It is May day today. To bad it is autumn down here.

Say Willy are things celebrated the same in the two hemispheres? Or would Beltane in the Southern hemisphere be celebrated 1st October?

You know, I really don't know. I'll have to ask someone when I go and I'll report back with an answer on Sunday.

kk, take your time.

Ah, Beltane. I'm fond of it for several reasons. For one thing, it's my birthday. I will finally be the 62 I've been claiming for the past week and a half. For another, even though, officially Spring started on March 23(?), it hasn't been very springlike here up until now.

I want to see flowers in bloom and young green leaves on the trees and no snow, damnit.

Happy Beltane, Wilgrove! From the description, it sounds like a lot of fun!

A couple quick questions: If my memory serves me right, are not Lupercalia (Roman) and Beltane celebrated at around the same time by any chance? Also which pagan tradition does Beltane belong to?

For one thing, it's my birthday.

We've got something in common it appears. Yes folks, its true, tomorrow is not in fact May Day, Labour Day or even Beltane, its my birthday. I trust you all to enjoy the revelries and celebrate as though its the end (it might actually be, I believe I may be the anti-Christ or a zombie).

We've got something in common it appears. Yes folks, its true, tomorrow is not in fact May Day, Labour Day or even Beltane, its my birthday. I trust you all to enjoy the revelries and celebrate as though its the end (it might actually be, I believe I may be the anti-Christ or a zombie).

I remember fondly that the Soviet Union used to have a parade in Red Square on my birthday - ah, good times.

Well, it's gonna be very uneventful for me. Probably gonna be pretty much the whole time on the computer. And, gonna watch the Finland-Slovakia hockey match.

Well I'm going to probably spend most of this evening in a field being evil at people - but once it hits 2am, I am going to stop being evil and instead celebrate by getting drunk on mead.

Ah the joys of LARPing over the may bank holiday

Came back from a neo-pagan/Celtic Fire Festival last night - a midnight dance off naked orgy with alcohol is the best way I can describe it.

Cr-azy.

Have a goodun Wilgrove! :)

(And to those whose birthdays it is)

You know, I really don't know. I'll have to ask someone when I go and I'll report back with an answer on Sunday.

Well since mostly all Pagan rites and festivities I know of, are seasonal, I would say whatever month the Spring, umm springs in.

Happy Pentane!

Happy birthday to the Illuminati

I thought it was Bealtaine.

I thought it was Bealtaine.

Beltane is the anglicised form of it. You can't except them to know everything ;)

Beltane is the anglicised form of it. You can't except them to know everything ;)

The fuck I can't. *throws rocks at pagans until they lern2Irish* :p

The fuck I can't. *throws rocks at pagans until they lern2Irish* :p

*throws a viking spear at Ifreann*

I will be gone for the entire weekend starting on Friday for a Beltane Weekend celebration, and I do plan to get drunk on the ale. So, to all of my Pagan friends, I'd like to wish y'all a Happy Beltane!



Link with Beltane customs. (http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/Beltane.html)
Happy completely pointless and random holiday to you too. :fluffle:

I thought you were a Saxon style Pagan, isn't Beltane a Celtic thing?

It is May day today. To bad it is autumn down here.

Say Willy are things celebrated the same in the two hemispheres? Or would Beltane in the Southern hemisphere be celebrated 1st October?

Yes, things are diffrent in the southern hemisphere. I think you celebrate some time in October if you're a pagan down under.

I thought you were a Saxon style Pagan, isn't Beltane a Celtic thing?

Yes, Beltane is a pagan festival. I'm not sure what religion Wilgrove is, but in Garnderian Wicca, the one I follow, we have influences from Celtic to Norse, Egyptian to Greek. Wicca isn't a conitnuation of any historic religion; it's a modern spirituality based on several other sources. As such, we celebrate Celtic festivals like Samhain and Beltane, as well solar feasts like the solstices.

Hope that helps.