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Blessings of Midsummer’s Eve!

by Beth on June 19, 2012

Hand in hand, with Fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place. ~ Titania, from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the last day of Spring.  This is Midsummer’s Eve, the night before the sabbat of Litha (Summer Solstice). Besides Samhain and Beltane, this [...]

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Sorry, Patrick..I’m Still with the Snakes

by Beth on March 17, 2012

This is an encore of my post last year. Instead of the troublesome Patrick, I will be honoring the older Ones on this day. May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you wherever you go. Today is Trefuilnid Treochair (Truh-FWEEL-nid Tray-oh-CARE) in the Celtic traditions. This is considered the premier [...]

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With Gratitude to Yesterday’s Workshop Participants

by Beth on June 12, 2011

   

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Wordless Wednesdays – Offerings of Summer

by Beth on July 28, 2010

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Saturday Poetry

by Beth on July 17, 2010

THE LORDS OF SHADOW by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) Where the water whispers mid the shadowy rowan-trees I have heard the Hidden People like the hum of swarming bees: And when the moon has risen and the brown burn glisters grey I have seen the Green Host marching in laughing disarray. Dalua then must sure [...]

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Encounters With The Little People

by Beth on June 18, 2010

I rise in silence, steadfast in the elements with thought a smoke-blue veil drawn round me. Seasons clothe me in laurel and bittersweet, in ice but my heart is constant… – from Smoky Mountain Woman © Marilou Awiakta, from her collection, *Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet As the magic of Summer Solstice approaches, [...]

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Signs of Summer

by Beth on June 16, 2010

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should [...]

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Blessings of Beltane Eve!

by Beth on April 30, 2010

This May Eve, as I burn, Year wheel take another turn. Fire flame and fire bright, Bless us on this May Eve night. Today is May Eve, Walpurgisnacht, Beltane Eve! One of the most magical nights of the year, in Germany, Walpurgisnacht begins at sunrise today and ends at sunrise on the first day of [...]

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Back .. temporarily..

by Beth on April 15, 2010

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. – Japanese Proverb Dear ones – what a fantastic time I had with my beloveds on my retreat in West Virginia.  We worked deep magic, blessed by the beautiful land and the sweet beginnings of Springtime in the Appalachian mountains.  We [...]

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Wishing You A Blessed Midsummer Night’s Eve!

by Beth on June 20, 2009

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire,I do wander everywhere,Swifter than the moon’s sphere;And I serve the fairy queen,To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be:In their gold coats spots you see;Those be rubies, fairy favours,In those freckles live their savours:I must go seek [...]

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