Beltane!

[Xois]

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and sent it to you on Tue May 1 09:32:42 2001.

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[Silver Venus]

Wow! Thanks darl thats so sweet and creative of you :D
Happy Beltane to you and everyone tooo!!
Im deffinately feeling very happy today :D With Spring here and Summer just round the corner it looks as though its going to be a fab year!!
:sunny:

[Celtic_Angel]

Thank you! :sunny: Brightest of blessings to all this Beltane!!! :sunny:

[SahuaDjet]

Thanks! what a lovely card! Hope everyone else has a brightful filled Sabbat!

Sahu Djet :heartthro

[Wiccan Maeve]

How sweet, happy Beltane everyone!

[idusty88]

Thank You!
Happy Beltane!
Grab a ribbon and dance around the maypole!
I've grabbed a bright yellow ribbon.
Here I go widdershins, round and round, in and out
with a merry meet for everyone I pass!

[Mairwen]

*grabs a white ribbon and races deosil!* :elf:

[Xois]

you know...in all my Pagan years, I have never physically danced a maypole. I want to try it so bad!

[reanna]

Happy Beltane to you all too.

Great Card!!


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[Mariposa De La Luna]

:D :D :D :D :D Happy Beltane! :D :D :D :D

[Earth Walker]

Thank You. :) Happy Beltane. :sunny:



Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.:crazy:
---Isaac Asimov - Foundation

[Amora]

Thanks so much! Happiest Beltane to all!!!:cool:

[Lilu]

Happy Beltaine everyone!
Spring is definitely starting to show it's face around here, and I couldn't be happier! :sunny:

Bright Blessings
Lilu

[Hestia]

Thank you Xois and a Blessed Beltane to everyone :)

[Elaine]

Happy Beltaine to everyone!!! The weather is just perfect for celebrating my first Beltaine...sunny and 85!!!! Just beautiful!!! Blessed Be!!:D

[Lavender]

:D Cool card!

[Celtic_Angel]

Originally posted by Xois
you know...in all my Pagan years, I have never physically danced a maypole. I want to try it so bad!

The only time I've ever danced a maypole was when I was a little girl and attending Catholic preschool! :p I love how you find the oldest traditions in the oddest places! :D

*grabs a blue ribbon*

[Mairwen]

My hometown has a May Day celebration on the first Friday of May every year. All the elementary, middle school, and high school kids cram into the high school gym along with their parents, school officials, business owners, teachers, aunts, uncles, grannies, papaws ~ you name it. The local newspapers .... :rolleyes:

The gym is decorated as if for a grand festival (and of course it is!), and at one end a short platform is brought out (same one they use for Mr & Mrs CHS and Graduation) and is set with chairs and bedecked with ribbons and flowers. A red "carpet" is laid out from the door to the platform .... This is for the May Queen and her chosen King to walk down, along with her May Court (those gals who vied for the position and didn't get it! LOL!). There's also a Junior Queen (from the elementary school set) and a Junior Court. The Junior Court is always adorable! :elf:

After the Queens are crowned and the Courts are assembled, then the fun starts, and the theme is different each year. High School kids don't get to participate ~ only the gals chosen to run for Queen. The 8th Grade gals wind the MayPole, and the 7th Graders don't participate, but everyone 6th grade and under do ... So, it's an all-day thing. 8O The elementary school kids perform dances and do little skits, all in honor of their May Queen.

It all kicks off with the MayPole dance ... The 8th Grade gals wear tacky dresses (and yes, at least mine was tacky (still is; I still have it, somewhere!), with ballet slippers (just the little pink ones) on their feet, and a garland of flowers and ribbons in their hair. I remember our MayPole ~ there were five poles, and they were on an elemental theme (yes! I was in the green group, and there was yellow, white, red and blue, heh!).

Then, each of the grades perform in turn, starting with Headstart and working up to the 6th Graders.

It's all really neat! :D

[idusty88]

Originally posted by Xois
you know...in all my Pagan years, I have never physically danced a maypole. I want to try it so bad!

Me either and I do too!:)
In elementary school (in the mid 1960's), the entire school (small school, only six classrooms) was supposed to dance the maypole. The school was very old and they had been doing this for many years. We were all excited about it. We watched the firemen from the station across the street put up the big pole and everyone practiced without the ribbons the week before. The principal, a lady with big blond braids coiled on the sides of her head, taught us songs to sing.
Then some prude parent found out about it and complained to the school board. Our festival was cancelled. We were all disappointed. Our beautiful blond principal, who had lead us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag every morning before school, soon disappeared to be replaced by a man in a suit who shortened the recess period and forbid boys and girls to play together on the playground.
That wasn't my first or last encounter with protestant christian zealotism, but it was certainly the most killjoy of my then young life.

[idusty88]

Originally posted by Mairwen
My hometown has a May Day celebration on the first Friday of May every year. :D
Oh, Mairwen, that is so beautiful!


Originally posted by Celtic Angel
I love how you find the oldest traditions in the oddest places!
I agree. When I witness pagan practices incorporated in the warp and weave of our culture, now and in the past, it affirms for me that the so called 'authorities' who try to say that paganism/witchcraft is a totally modern creation with no holdover of knowledge from the past are just full of bull.

[Celtic_Angel]

I found this poem a while back. The clip said that it had been translated from Gaelic and is thought to have been composed by Finn. Anyways, I love it and I hope you enjoy! :sunny:

:sunny:
May, clad in cloth of gold,
Cometh this way;
The fluting of the blackbirds
Heralds the day.
The dust coloured cuckoo
Cries, "Welcome, O Queen!"
For winter has vanished
The thickets are green.
Soon the trampling of cattle
Where river runs low,
The long hair of the heather,
The canna like snow.
Wild waters are sleeping,
Foam of blossom is here;
Peace, save the panic
In the heart of the deer.
The wild bee is busy,
The ant honey spills,
The wandreing kine
Are abroad on the hills.
The harp of the forest
Sounds low, sounds sweet;
Soft bloom on the heights;
On the loch, haze of heat.
The waterfall dreams;
Snipe, cornflakes, drum
By the pool where the talk
Of the rushes is come.
The swallow is swooping;
Songs sing from each brae;
Rich harvest of mast falls;
The swamp shimmers gay.
Happy the heart of man,
Eager each maid;
Lovely the forest,
The wild plain, the green glade.
Truly winter is gone,
Come the time of delight,
The summer truce joyous,
May, blossom-white.
In the heart of the meadows
The lapwings are quiet;
A winding stream
Makes drowsy riot.
Race horse, sail, and run!
Rejoice and be bold!
See, the shaft of sun
Makes the water-flag gold.
Loud, clear, the blackcap;
The lark trills her voice,
"Hail May of delicate colours,
'Tis May Day - Rejoice!"
:sunny:

[Dria El]

Originally posted by Xois
you know...in all my Pagan years, I have never physically danced a maypole. I want to try it so bad!

I know how you feel! Every year something prevents me from doing it. This year it was a migraine so bad my group had to do a long distance healing for me. I miss everything! Waaaaaah! :(

One day I will though, dangit!

Determinedly,
Dria El

[Mairwen]

Originally posted by idusty88
Oh, Mairwen, that is so beautiful!

*snicker* Thing is, they probably don't have a clue what they're doing. :rolleyes: 8O