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The Simpsons and Wicca
After dabbling in Buddhism it appears that Lisa Simpson in the latest episode of The Simpsons has embraced Wicca. Here is the exchange…
Bart: “Lisa made me do it. She put a witch spell on me.”
Lisa: “No, I didn’t. Besides, it’s called Wicca, and it’s empowering.”
Bart: “Wicca is just a Hollywood fad.”
Lisa: “That’s Kabbalah! KABBALAH!” (Lisa starts to choke Bart)
For those who don’t want to be TOO fertile
Worried about getting with child this May Day? Do a cooler jump instead of leaping over the fire!
Synchronicity tie-in to Beltane
Our local celebration of Take Back The Night is happening on April 30th as well.
One more on Beltane
The Google News round-up.
Happy holiday everyone, and remember to keep those…
Beltane Fire Festival. Picture: Esme Allen.
…Beltane fires burning!
While I’m at it…
If you are looking for a pagan Beltane celebration to attend Witchvox has your hookup.
Merry Beltane
“There’ve been riots all over the city to-night. It’s May Day, you see.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today and tomorrow are generally when most modern pagans celebrate Beltane…
Beltaine, properly pronounced “Beh-tan-yew,” or “byel-tin-yuh” but generally pronounced phonetically as “Bell-tane” by almost everyone these days, introduces the second half of the Celtic year – summer…
The “light” season of samos, Beltane is a fire festival second only in importance to Samhain, and indeed they parallel many of the same aspects. Beltane itself is a modern name, and seems to be derived from the Old Celtic Belo-tenia, fire of Belos. “Belos” is a form of Belenos, a solar god associated with cattle. – Red Selchie
Many think of May 1st as the original “Labor Day”, culminating from the historic Chicago labor protests, here is an article about the evolution from fertility festival to labor holiday (their pagan history is a bit spotty, but a decent article nonetheless).
Even though the rest fof the world still celebrates “Labor Day” on “May Day”, the US officially celebrates it in September.
Labor Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in the United States and Canada since the 1880s. The September date has remained unchanged even though it was encouraged to adopt May 1 as Labor Day, the date celebrated in the Soviet Union as its labour holiday. Moving the holiday, in addition to violating the U.S. tradition, could have been viewed as aligning U.S. labor movements with internationist sympathies. -Wikipedia
Even more stuff about May Day
Beltane in Edinburgh
