The Daily Travesty
May is declared The Best Month of All by the editor.
Today is Beltane, the second major Celtic festival, also
known as Mayday. Beltane, and its counterpart Samhain, divide the year
into its two primary seasons, Winter and Summer. Beltane joyfully heralds
the arrival of summer in full garb. It is said that if you bathe in the
dew of Beltane morn, your beauty will flourish throughout the year.
Beltane marks the handfasting (wedding) of the Goddess and God, the
reawakening of the earth's fertility at its fullest. This is the union
between the Great Mother and her Young Horned God. This coupling brings
new life on earth. It is the unifying of the Divine Masculine and the
Divine Feminine forms to bring forth the third form, consciousness. May is
the month of sensuality and sexuality revitalized, the reawakening of the Earth
and Her Children. It is the time when we reawaken to the vivid colors and
vibrant scents of the season, tingling summer breezes, the rapture of summer
after a long dormant winter.
It is customary that Handfastings, for a year and a day, occur at this
time. These are the trial marriages that typically occur between a couple
before deciding to embark on life eternal. It was understood by our
ancestors that one does not really know another until they live with them, and
that things tend to change. With this understanding unions were entered
upon first as a test period, and then a further commitment. It was kept in
mind that only through the choice of both to remain, could the relationship
exist.
credit to Christina Aubin.
Re: Aurora Borealis Pictures
MAN! this is some fine planet, ain't it? Thanks for
sending.
xxx via davis
PS anecdotal:
We had a fish once named
Boris Borealis. He was a Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish) we saw in a tank at
a pet store, in with a bunch of ill-tempered, marauding angel fish, who were
tearing him to shreds. $75 & a complete aquarium setup later, he was
ours. (they wouldn't even give us the fish!)
True to his name, Boris
proceeded to grow his fins back out: he had a black body & long, gorgeous
yellow fins. He was, i swear to gods, grateful for his rescue, & paid
close attention to us, always visiting when we peered in, coming up to caress
our fingers when we stuck them in the water. We were so taken with him, we
got him a wife - Talluelah Fishhead, she was - a white Betta with red
fins. They had a luscious mating tank set up, & did their thing amidst
the floating greenery; Boris dutifully tending his eggs, producing, ultimately,
one thriving daughter, who was named Doris Borealis.
Funny
association....thus we see the relationship between sky & fin, air &
water.....
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the
alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering
itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its
dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and
with eternity."
Paulo Coelho in The "Alchemist"