‘But I must gather knots of flowers, And buds and garlands gay, For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson Blessings of May to all of you! Goddess is ripe and Her fertility sweeps the land, stirring the fires, and calling us to […]
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Beltane and the Queens of the May by Caireann Frasca
If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow Don’t be alarmed now It’s just a spring clean for the May Queen… -Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, “Stairway to Heaven” I was very fortunate to grow up in the 1970s, with parents who loved music. On Sundays, especially, the house was always filled with the sounds […]
The Magic of Beltain by Michelle Boxley
Dearest moonbeams, the Wheel of the Year is turning once again and this week we welcome in the festival of Beltain. Beltain, also called Beltane, Bealtaine and Beltine is one of the cross quarter festivals of the wheel of the year along with Imbolc, Lammas and Samhain. Beltain is celebrated on the eve of the 30th […]
Goddess Calendar for April 2020 by Kimberly Moore
“Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it’s important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering […]
Mary as Theotokos and Spring Birthings by Marisa McCall
March is a contemplative month for me. It always brings me back to the year of my daughter’s birth. I spent the whole month of March that year in exhausted exaltation. I was becoming a mother, and while I was excited beyond all belief at finally getting to hold my baby girl in my arms, […]
Goddess Calendar March 2020 by Kimberly Moore
Maiden Goddess, holy one, protector of hills and forest, protector of mothers in labor, protector of the buds of infancy, triple Goddess, I invoke you. bless the trees around my home, the ones that shade me, the ones that screen the wind, the ones that perfume the air. May they protect me as you do. […]
Goddess Calendar for February 2020 by Kimberly F. Moore
“The Sun’s path has returned to where it was at Samhain. Take some time to notice the quality of the light, for it is the same now as that shimmering magical glow of late October. But instead of the season of dark and silence before us, in the Northern Hemisphere, the season of light and growth […]
Mary Magdalene and the Feminine Diaspora by Lauri Ann Lumby
Diaspora: the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland (Merriam-Webster). When we speak of Mary Magdalene and the feminine diaspora, we are identifying the intentional and deliberate removal of the feminine principle in Christianity and by association, the extraction of and demonizing of the feminine in Western culture. […]
Goddess Calendar and HolyDays for October 2019 by Kimberly Moore
“As I went out walking this fall afternoon, I heard a whisper whispering. I heard a whisper whispering, Upon this fine fall day… As I went out walking this fall afternoon, I heard a laugh a’ laughing. I heard a laugh a’ laughing, Upon this fine fall day…I heard this whisper and I wondered, I […]
Goddess Calendar August 2019 by Kimberly Moore
“Fairest of the months! Ripe summer’s queen The hey-day of the year With robes that gleam with sunny sheen Sweet August doth appear.” – R. Combe Miller As we move into the final month of summer in the Northern hemisphere, Goddess is ripe and heavy with promise, carrying the abundance that nourishes us through the […]
