Beltane is on April 30th. In this time of abundant growth, we dance around the maypole and crown the May Queen and May King. The Crow Women love Beltane! Our first Beltane composition, Song of Beltane, expresses that joy. Beltane Spirits Come to Us depicts scenes at a Beltane festival. We have two songs about the balefire, a sacred fire pagans leap over on Beltane. Those are I Am Flame and Nine Sacred Woods. Our handfasting songs, Join Together and Chalice to Blade were written for handfastings that happened on Beltane, but could be used for a handfasting at any time of the year.
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Beltane blog posts:
The Blessings of Beltane
It was 10 years ago when I was truly inspired to write my song “Blessings of Beltane” I remember standing on my hill, quietly gazing and drinking the distance of the early morning golden splendour, barefoot in the grass and drenching my face with the fresh, pristine morning dew, breathing...
Aphrodite’s Flowers
I participated in my first ritual to celebrate Aphrodite (in this lifetime) when I was a teenager. I only remember bits of the ritual but one of the things that we did was a guided meditation where we communed with Aphrodite. In that meditation Aphrodite gave me a rose and...
Celebrating Beltane with Pagan Music
For thousands of years, people have been celebrating life’s cycles by honoring the coming of spring and the start of summer with the Pagan holiday of Beltane. But what does this have to do with music? Well, it turns out that pagan music has been an integral part of Beltane...
The Sacred Sabbats of Samhain and Beltaine
As the Wheel of the Year turns away from the planetary balance of light and dark at the recent Equinox in September, and toward the upcoming seasonal extremes of the December Solstice (Midsummer in the Southern Hemisphere and Midwinter in the Northern), we find ourselves approaching a deeply magical point...
Bringing In the May
Alane was kind enough to ask me to be a guest writer, once again, for these blogs. In her request she wanted to know how my Beltane song Bringing in the May came about. I answered that I’d like to know that TOO and grinned. It’s is on my album...
Sing “Ho!” for Beltane mead
Today I am toasting the arrival of the Beltane season with some mead I made two years ago. Remember those strange times? It was April of 2020 and we were holed up in our homes. I was very, very single at that time, so it was rather an isolating experience...
Springtime with the Fairies
Spring is the time of fairies. Okay, every time is the time of fairies, they’d have me remind you. But spring is a time when those of us inhabiting the mortal world can most easily see their effects. And as liminal creatures, fairies are certainly comfortable in the spring, the transition time...
Snowtane
Beltane is joyful. Beltane is colorful. Beltane is sexy. Sometimes Beltane is challenging. Sometimes, Beltane is…Snowtane. For the second year in a row, the Beltane Southwest festival near Albuquerque will be virtual because of continuing COVID concerns. But I can look back to the in-person celebrations. It’s an occasion...
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