The Gift of the Bees: an Inclusive BeltaineI love Beltaine. I love flowers. I love early summer. I love sex. I love fertility and fruitfulness. What’s not to love?

Weeeeeell, if you’re a queer person in Pagan community, Beltaine can be fraught with conflict and ambivalence. Simplistic understandings of Maypoles, Bael Fires, and related ceremonies ( Read more... )

How can we share truths of Thanksgiving, without undermining the holiday that is now more associated with family than with imperialism? How can we share a more authentic, regional version of how this story has affected us in California, rather than an East Coast-heavy narrative that has no direct connection to the Bay Area? How can we rethink what ( Read more... )

Happy Summer Solstice, everyone! (Or Winter Solstice in Oz!)

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Note to self, seen in http://rootandrock.blogspot.com/2011/02/inspired-by-pagan-meme.html:

I celebrate the passing of the seasons in binary. "Samhain" and "Beltain", though occasionally "Imbolc" and "Lughnassadh". And the rest are feasts of fun and ( Read more... )

( just some notes to self on themes/imagery )

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See also others by same user, including "Kidnap the Sandy Claws". Dang. Someone's got a lot of free time, eh?

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Some random pictures from Labor Day onward; obviously, image-heavy. ( Read more... )

I know it's a tad late for some of these Halloween-related things, but stow them for next year? I have a few leftover Halloween things which I think I may post in "bonus" posts over the next day or so. I'm planning to continue this "autumnvent" in general to the 30th day, which I think is the 9th of November, so there are still some more autumn/ ( Read more... )