Articles related to "Beltane"



The Sabbat Beltane
Beltane is a Pagan celebration in May that focuses on love, fertility, and purification.
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Wheel of the Year 101: Beltane
An overview of Beltane, including links for more info.
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Celtic Festival of Beltane or Beltain
Beltane is an important moment in the Wiccan Calendar. Fires, socializing and being in nature are all fitting celebrations for this time of celebration!
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May Day
An historical look at this ancient fire festival, its traditions and some common misconceptions.
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Beltane, Pagan Spring Celebration
It's a Sabbat of fertility and renewal, a joyful celebration on May First with dancing, feasting and the traditional Maypole.
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Good Mornin' Garden Faeries!
Ah, be careful where you step past the first of May when the Faeries awaken and return to the gardens
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Magic & Spells for Witches at Halloween, Beltane
Witches Spells & Magic Charms for Fun at Halloween, back to Pagan & Celt History & misty mountains of the Druids. How to Protect Crops, Ward off Evil & Find a Husband!
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May Day
The customs of May Day go back to pre-Christian times. This article gives a brief look at its history.
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Pagan May Day Festival - Beltane
This Greater Sabbat, sometimes mistakenly called Roodmas, a non-Pagan holiday, features flowers, the Maypole and its own special foods. Celebrate and enjoy the recipes.
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Walpurgisnacht and Beltane Sabbats
Sabbat, a fête of fertility and joy, features dancing, merriment and the feast. Delight in the season of growth and dine on recipes for traditional foods.
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May Day and the Maypole – Spring Traditions
These traditions and festivals, while no longer widely celebrated, have a rich and complex history, and are worth remembering and the snow melts and spring comes again.
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Pagan Roots of Easter Customs
At Easter time, children go on egg hunts looking for eggs the Easter bunny hid. Women and girls wear corsages. Traditional foods are eaten at Easter dinner.
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May Day in Medieval Times
May Day was one of the most popular medieval festivals because it celebrated the end of a long, hard winter.
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Ancient Fertility Sites
How visiting ancient fertility sites and applying faith and ritual into every day life has helped some people to have a family.
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The Magick of May
Learn simple ways to keep the Pagan magick of May alive even after Beltane passes. Nurture love, honor the Goddess and get your creative juices flowing.
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Wiccan Sabbats - The Wheel of the Year
Sabbats are a time to celebrate. To sing, dance, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. The major Sabbats are Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lammas.
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Halloween and the Wicca Wheel of the Year
Not many people realize that Halloween, celebrated on October 31 or All Hallows Eve, is just one of an annual cycle of rituals that form the backbone of the Wiccan year.
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May Day: Celebration of Spring
In the Northern hemisphere, "May Day" or the first day of May celebrates spring and the coming of summer. This celebration has its roots in ancient spring festivals.
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Ancient nature consciousness, part 1: Druidism
In our era it is increasingly difficult to address environmental issues without some meaningful discussion of spirituality. There is much to be learned from the beliefs and practices of people who lived closer to the Earth and were more directly attuned to its moods and powers.
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Easter, Eostre or Ostara?
Myths and legends surround the celebration of modern-day holidays. Many of us aren't quite sure why we celebrate Easter. Some say it is to honour a fertility goddess.
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Sabbats - Pagan Fire Festivals
Pagan holidays celebrate changing seasons and the cycle of life. Greater Sabbats are Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh; Lesser Sabbats, solstices and equinoxes.
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Symbolism of Fire in Art
The drama or art class inquire into the positive and negative symbolism of fire. Students create their own flaming prop and write a soliloquy to present to the class.
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Wiccan and Pagan Calendar 2010
The Wheel of the Year includes many sabbats celebrated by Wiccans and Pagans to mark the changes in the seasons
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German Pagan Roots of May Day Trads
This was one of the greatest of the Germanic Pagan festivals, later becoming associated with St. Walpurga. This is the root of some modern Christian traditions.
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Final Harvest
It is a time to honour our ancestors.
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The Legend of St. Patrick and the Hill of Slane
The lasting influence of one man who brought Christianity to Ireland, has developed into one of the only holidays to be celebrated outside its own country of origin.
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Summer in Danmark: Midsummer Traditions
Summer in Denmark bring a celebration of light, nature, the warmth of friends and family, and the revival of the Danish people's pagan roots.
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Wheel of theYear 101: Samhain
An introductory article about Samhain, the final sabbat in the Wheel of the Year cycle. This is the seventh Wheel of the Year 101 article, however, since my Wheel of the Year 101 series started with Imbolc
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Lughnasadh – Pagan First Harvest Celebration
The ripening and reaping of grains were cause for great festivities. There were ceremonies and a feast. Celebrate the festival and enjoy recipes for the banquet.
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The Origins of Halloween
Costumes, candy, ghosts, and jack o’lanterns. Learn about the origins of Halloween and its customs.
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A Look at the Wiccan Rede
A point by point look at the wiccan rede by examining its parts.
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Planting Fairy Gardens: Flowers, Plants and Herbs that are Said to Attract Fairies
There are many kinds of theme gardens. One that is gaining in popularity is the fairy garden.
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Ancient Meanings of Halloween
What is now known as Halloween used to be an ancient festival called Samhain, when the Celts celebrated the end of the light phase of the year and the start of the dark.
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Celtic Festival of Lughnasadh or Lammas
Lughnasadh or Lammas falls when the first of the grain is harvested at the beginning of August, naturally an important moment for traditional agricultural communities
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Summer Solstice
A brief history of Litha, ways in which it is celebrated and a correspondence list of herbs, incense and deities and gemstones.
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The Wiccan Chalice as Magickal Tool
Ancient and potent symbol, chalices are used in Wiccan ritual to represent fertility, emotion and the element of water.
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To Be Wiccan
Let's face it: Religious fight for freedom happened in the past and it is still happening. Only, these days it's more discreet.
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Creating a Community pt. 1
This article describes some questions a person might want to ask about the kind of community s/he would like to be part of or help create.
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Ritual Holidays
With Easter coming up, many survivors struggle with this holiday. I have included a calendar of the major holidays of the year that both survivors and support people can refer to.
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Spiral Dance
A look at the reasons we preform the Spiral dance in Ritual and at Festivals
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St. Patrick--Fact Versus Fiction, Part 2
St. Patrick and the snakes, the truth about his driving them out of Ireland, along with other fact and legend about his ministry.
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Trick or Treat
What Samhain and Halloween have in common as far as origins and practices. The significance of Samhain to the pagan or wikkan.
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Wheel of the Year 101: Imbolc
First in a series of intro Sabbat articles. Imbolc is the second of the 8 Sabbats.
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Wheel of the Year 101: Litha/Summer Solstice
Fourth in an ongoing beginner series of articles on the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. This article covers Litha/Summer Solstice.
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A Brief Introduction to the Celts
The Celts are a ethnic group of people spread throughout the British Isles and part of mainland Europe with a unique culture, history, religion, and language.
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America's Stonehenge, Mystery Hill, NH
Stonehenge and Mystery Hill have three things in common. They were observatories. Each has astronomical alignments. Almost nothing is known about the builders of both.
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Celebrating the Summer Equinox
Traditional celebrations marking the start of summer began in pre-historic times and have continued through the centuries in most countries of the northern hemisphere.
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Druids: Origin and Traditions
The origin of the Pagan or Shamanic Celtic Druids was documented through the years. It's been written they mysteriously disappeared. Or did they?
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Festivals that Mark the Seasons
We may no longer realize it, but many of our celebrations are time-keepers on an old agrarian calendar.
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History of Halloween-Druid or Christian Feast?
Whether Halloween is a pagan celebration is debatable as the early Christian Church perpetuated the Druid celebration by moving the Feast of All Saints Day to 1 November
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