Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere will begin celebrating the spring festival of Beltane Saturday night, affirming the abundance of the coming year as summer approaches. The holiday, better known as May Day, is one of eight annual “sabbats” or festivals When Beltane draws hot and bothered to the fore, we witches celebrate a Greater Sabbat … Read more
Beltane or May Day means something special in my hometown of New Orleans. Since 1970, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has been held on the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May every year, and so that means that May 1st is Beltane – It's great! What could be better … Read more
Beltane is one of my favorite holidays, but I don't like writing rituals for it. Usually my Beltane rituals tend to revolve around the transition from young person to adult (Maiden to Mother, Goatboy to Horned God) but I wanted to go in a different Spring is finally, incontrovertibly back after a long and harsh … Read more