Rucira
05-01-2006, 02:35 AM
gee, is anyone having any sort of get together for beltane. ?:giggle:
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kazooboy
05-02-2006, 04:09 PM
gee, is anyone having any sort of get together for beltane. ?:giggle:
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
saysni
05-02-2006, 10:56 PM
easy...look it up.
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
susienpaws
05-03-2006, 09:39 AM
Salutations Rucira,
You just missed the Reclaiming ritual in Sebastopol last Saturday. Check out the Wicca -<www.reclaiming.org> website for local - north bay happenings. You might also go to sonoma sufi.com to check out the Universal Sufi happenings-every second and fourth Sunday at the Youth Center, near the Sebastopol Community Center. Blessed Beltaine to thee. Suzinpaws
You just missed the Reclaiming ritual in Sebastopol last Saturday. Check out the Wicca -<www.reclaiming.org> website for local - north bay happenings. You might also go to sonoma sufi.com to check out the Universal Sufi happenings-every second and fourth Sunday at the Youth Center, near the Sebastopol Community Center. Blessed Beltaine to thee. Suzinpaws
saysni
05-03-2006, 11:04 AM
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
Here's how i should have replied:
Educate thyself young man.
Instead i took the "easy" route, as in to say- lighten up fella!
I like the adage:
Give someone a fish and they eat for a day; teach them to fish and they eat for a lifetime.
Quote:
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;">Stuart Moore wrote:
easy...look it up.
</td></tr></tbody></table>Thanks kazooboy...
Here's how i should have replied:
Educate thyself young man.
Instead i took the "easy" route, as in to say- lighten up fella!
I like the adage:
Give someone a fish and they eat for a day; teach them to fish and they eat for a lifetime.
Quote:
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;">Stuart Moore wrote:
easy...look it up.
</td></tr></tbody></table>Thanks kazooboy...
05-03-2006, 05:55 PM
Beltane is an acient celtic festival that celebrates spring with maypoles, Beltane fires and ritual that is half way around the year from Holloween. It is considered a very important day in the celtic callender.
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
Pardon my ignorance but WTF are you talking about?
mykil
05-04-2006, 03:40 PM
Thank God I didn't have to look that up myself!
Beltane is an acient celtic festival that celebrates spring with maypoles, Beltane fires and ritual that is half way around the year from Holloween. It is considered a very important day in the celtic callender.
Beltane is an acient celtic festival that celebrates spring with maypoles, Beltane fires and ritual that is half way around the year from Holloween. It is considered a very important day in the celtic callender.
05-04-2006, 05:26 PM
Well.. the night before Beltane in a lot of Germanic countries is referred to as Walpugis Night. It is the time when the walls between this world and the next is so thin you can hear them walking about on the other side. Things get complicated and out of wack. I have found that honoring this time and a good smudge of sweetgrass or sacred sage helps get through it. <o:p></o:p>
There are sometimes two Beltane fires built with a space between them and livestock is driven between the fires to give them a blessing. Also young lovers will wait until the fires are burned down and jump the fire hand in hand for a blessing. <o:p></o:p>
After the Maypole is danced, young men try to climb it and pluck a flower from the crown . They are declared King of the may and their consort is Queen.<o:p></o:p>
all in all a wonderful time to celebrate. <o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
There are sometimes two Beltane fires built with a space between them and livestock is driven between the fires to give them a blessing. Also young lovers will wait until the fires are burned down and jump the fire hand in hand for a blessing. <o:p></o:p>
After the Maypole is danced, young men try to climb it and pluck a flower from the crown . They are declared King of the may and their consort is Queen.<o:p></o:p>
all in all a wonderful time to celebrate. <o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
theholly
05-04-2006, 09:30 PM
to the person who replied "look it up' and so forth...
why don't you just answer the person or don't write at all. You come off as smug or arrogant the way you replied. I don't think you were kind or helpful. Sorry but your response just got my goat.
Here's how i should have replied:
Educate thyself young man.
Instead i took the "easy" route, as in to say- lighten up fella!
I like the adage:
Give someone a fish and they eat for a day; teach them to fish and they eat for a lifetime.
Quote:
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;">Stuart Moore wrote:
easy...look it up.
why don't you just answer the person or don't write at all. You come off as smug or arrogant the way you replied. I don't think you were kind or helpful. Sorry but your response just got my goat.
</td></tr></tbody></table>Thanks kazooboy...
why don't you just answer the person or don't write at all. You come off as smug or arrogant the way you replied. I don't think you were kind or helpful. Sorry but your response just got my goat.
Here's how i should have replied:
Educate thyself young man.
Instead i took the "easy" route, as in to say- lighten up fella!
I like the adage:
Give someone a fish and they eat for a day; teach them to fish and they eat for a lifetime.
Quote:
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;">Stuart Moore wrote:
easy...look it up.
why don't you just answer the person or don't write at all. You come off as smug or arrogant the way you replied. I don't think you were kind or helpful. Sorry but your response just got my goat.
</td></tr></tbody></table>Thanks kazooboy...
alphagrl
05-04-2006, 10:15 PM
OK. Here's the thing about Beltane. It's a holiday of FERTILITY. Back in the day, the country folks would go out and party in the fields and furrows. Lads and lasses would get quite lewd hoping to spread not only plant seeds in the earth, but, uh well, spill their own seed as much as possible to honor the Mother, add whatever they could in terms of their own personal fertilizer. It was a ROLLICKING and Bawdry time to be had by all.
It was not just in Ireland, it was throught the Celtic worlds...North England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and probably earlier France and most of the British Isles.
It's a great idea and since it rained here until almost then, let's encourage everyone with some privacy to go out and share the tradition.
An old friend from Greensboro North Carolina, an area believed to have the closest linguistic link to the old original english that came here used to say,
"Hooray, Hooray the First of May. Outdoor shagging (she said f***g) starts today."
Happy Beltane!!!!
from a nice Irish lass.
It was not just in Ireland, it was throught the Celtic worlds...North England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and probably earlier France and most of the British Isles.
It's a great idea and since it rained here until almost then, let's encourage everyone with some privacy to go out and share the tradition.
An old friend from Greensboro North Carolina, an area believed to have the closest linguistic link to the old original english that came here used to say,
"Hooray, Hooray the First of May. Outdoor shagging (she said f***g) starts today."
Happy Beltane!!!!
from a nice Irish lass.
Barry
05-04-2006, 10:46 PM
Now that's more like it! :thumbsup:Thanks for the great post, Alphagrl!
OK. Here's the thing about Beltane. It's a holiday of FERTILITY. Back in the day, ...{snip}
"Hooray, Hooray the First of May. Outdoor shagging (she said f***g) starts today."
OK. Here's the thing about Beltane. It's a holiday of FERTILITY. Back in the day, ...{snip}
"Hooray, Hooray the First of May. Outdoor shagging (she said f***g) starts today."
nbcds.org
05-06-2006, 02:42 AM
For anyone interested in a related tradition, please note that Apple Tree Morris has been dancing up the sun on May Day for years now in the old English way. Please see this post:
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7141
And this related post, about learning the Abram Circle Dance which is done at dawn on May Morning world-wide:
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7140
The left photo below shows the final moment of the Abram Circle. And the sun did surely come up!
Even though you missed it this year, remember for next year! It was beautiful!
Images courtesy of John Werner Photography: www.jwerner.com
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7141
And this related post, about learning the Abram Circle Dance which is done at dawn on May Morning world-wide:
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7140
The left photo below shows the final moment of the Abram Circle. And the sun did surely come up!
Even though you missed it this year, remember for next year! It was beautiful!
Images courtesy of John Werner Photography: www.jwerner.com