Thumbing my nose at today's bacchanalia of stupid:



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Snakes are beautiful, powerful, sensual creatures who have been revered by countless native cultures as embodiments of knowledge and wisdom, and as symbols of regeneration and eternity. I consider the celebration of their murder to be reprehensible and distasteful.

So there.

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Santiage - Loreena McKennitt


The sun gains its power, the earth burdgeons, and all of life celebrates. Today is Beltane, the Great Day in the pagan calendar, when we celebrate life and Our Mother, the Goddess of Earth and Stars, the Lady of the Universe. All hail Her glory and beauty, Her wonder and delight, Her allure and glamor!

The Circle Is Cast - The Robert Gass Chorus, featuring Divy Nelson


Today She joins with Her Sacred Consort, and Their love fills the Universe and brings forth life. We celebrate Their power, which flows like a river through all things, bursts forth in the flowers and trees, the rivers that run and the ocean that roars. Fires leap up to heaven, light pours down on life, and everything is renewed, quickened, energized. The ground beneath us is charged with erotic energy, and everything...DANCES.


By the earth, this is Her body.
By the earth, Mother of us all.
By the earth, the future and past.
The circle is cast.

By the air, this is Her breath.
By the air, sweet wind of life.
By the air, from the first to the last.
The circle is cast.

By the fire of Her bright spirit,
Shining candles in the night,
By the fire of Her bright spirit.
Shine (shining) shine Your light on me.

By the waters, this is Her blood.
By the waters, the calm and the flood.
By the living waters, running slow, running fast.
The circle is cast, the circle is cast.

Yemaya, Innana, Rhiannon, Cybele,
Chicomecoatl, Akewa, Aphrodite, Demeter, Gaia,
Athena, Shekina, Ganga, Pele, Uma, Kali,
Hera, Hecate, Meboze, Oya, Paso Wee, Diana

Blessed Beltane!

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The face of your religion
covers the face of His Love
You are like a donkey
that carries sugar candy on its back
but cannot taste it.

If a mirror shows you your own ugliness
what is the use
of breaking the mirror with your fist?


-- Rumi