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Friday, May 1, 2020

Beltane 2020

Johnnie Jump Ups are just such a "happy" flower
blooming profusely and providing
 abundant seeds for the following season.
May 1 is Beltane, also know as May Day. It is the Pagan festival of fertility with the Goddess and the Green Man coming together to create new life. 


The Goddess sitting among newly emerging Pipevine leaves
with a Pipevine Swallowtail in her hair.

As we are sheltering in place may we recognize the vitalness of connecting with nature. And may we innovate ways of doing so when it would be best not to venture out into the beautiful places nearby when way too many others are doing so. This practice is putting people at risk who live in these sparsely populated areas, and minimizing the possibility of "social distancing."

Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) in her glorious Spring bloom.

Let us be creative at home with our family ways of connecting with the wild and free energy of nature: create May Day baskets filled with flowers from your yard, build a house for the fairies, plant a flowering plant you would not otherwise choose to do but are drawn to the beauty of the flower, begin a victory garden during the pandemic so as to nurture yourself with fresh produce you might not otherwise feast on, sit outside at sunset and enjoy the glory of seeing the stunning colors created in the evening light. Connecting with nature puts us in touch with our most elemental BEingness. At this time when the "veils are thin" as they are also at Samhain, may we celebrate the miraculous things that can happen.


Go wild today! Staying at home, of course. And as we exuberantly in our own backyards leap up and down, as frisky Spring lambs do, may we happily









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