Celebrating the Green Man

Today is May Day / Beltane, a time of rites and rituals to ensure the fertility of the Earth. The Great Goddess unites with her consort, the Green Man, and in the fullness of time will produce a bountiful harvest needed to sustain all life on this planet.

The Green Man is an ancient folkloric figure in many cultures. His representation is often found in art and architecture of the past. The Green Man is always covered in foliage or flowers.

Sometimes the Green Man also sports a set of horns or antlers on his head to reinforce the symbolism of his virility.

This form of the Divine Masculine is a cyclical deity of life, sacrifice/death, and rebirth, mirroring the seasonal cycle of crop growth, reaping/harvest, and renewed planting each Spring. The Green Man is a powerful symbol of the masculine principle's most positive, creative, nurturing, and life-affirming aspects.

And what a great subject the Green Man makes for pagan cosplay! Happy May Day, everyone!

Happy Beltane/May Day!

To celebrate today's major Wheel of the Year festival, here are two recent pagan musical gems which I recently discovered thanks to fellow bloggers! I hope you enjoy these as much as I do!

Everybody Goes To Hell

Sung and written by Candi Carpenter

Thanks to Lady M's Haunted Parlor for introducing me to this song and singer! See more info about Candi Carpenter here.

Savage Daughter

Sung by Ekaterina Shelehova

Written by Karen Kahan / Wyndreth Berginsdottir

Thanks to The Blog Fodder for introducing me to this song and singer -- see his blog post here for more info about Ekaterina Shelehova and more videos of her music.

Happy Beltane/May Day (NSFW)

Once again it is BELTANE/MAY DAY,

when horny pagans around the world

do their duty to ensure the fertility of the Earth

by celebrating with May Pole dancing,

bonfires and outdoor sex.

Not every religion, of course, has

such a liberated or freewheeling attitude to

ESS   EEE   EKS.

Her Royal Highness the Cat 

tries to keep a paw in 

EACH camp, of course.

But I know the REST OF YOU

will gladly join me in some

NSFW humour!

Fertility Rites in a Time of Pandemic

Happy May Day, everyone, and a Blessed Beltane to you all!

Alas, there will be no pagan sexual rites 

conducted in person this year out in the 

forests, meadows and fields to encourage 

the fertility of the earth.

Social distancing must be maintained, you know.

I'm afraid that in 2020 all we can do

is enjoy some NSFW memes and LOLs.

Oh well, better than nothing, I suppose.

Beltane Blessings!

The pagan festival of May Day or Beltane is when the Lord and Lady . . .

. . . the Goddess and the Green Man . . .

. . . the Goddess and the Horned God . . .

 . . . however you want to characterize them . . .  get together to perform the *ahem* Great Rite, as it is known, to ensure the fertility of the Earth in the coming months.

All good pagans are encouraged to do the same with the partner(s) of their choice to help the process along, so to speak.

So what are you hanging around here for? Get out in those fields and do your religious duty!

It's May Day!

So go find a maypole and dance around it! You can take that as literally or as figuratively as you want.

Beltane Blessings to All

Okay now, you know what to do! Get going!

Happy May Day!

No, I don't mean the airplane disaster Mayday. What kind of sicko would wish you a happy one of those? Sheesh, gimme some credit.

And I don't mean the militaristic Soviet-style International Workers' Day May Day because that was never no fun for nobody (ooo, triple negative score!)

I mean the good old-fashioned pagan festival of running around nekkid in the fields with a horny goat god May Day!

Have fun!