Days of Ragnarok
01.05.2006., ponedjeljak
Beltane
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merry Beltane svima koji ga slavite! Beltane, and its counterpart Samhain, divide the year into its two primary seasons, winter (Dark Part) and summer (Light Part). As Samhain is about honoring Death, Beltane, its counter part, is about honoring Life. It is the time when the sun is fully released from his bondage of winter and able to rule over summer and life once again. Beltane, like Samhain, is a time of "no time" when the veils between the two worlds are at their thinnest. No time is when the two worlds intermingle and unite and the magic abounds! It is the time when the Faeries return from their winter respite, carefree and full of faery mischief and faery delight.  Beltane marks the handfasting (wedding) of the Goddess and God, it too marks the reawakening of the earth's fertility in its fullest. This is the union between the Great Mother and her Young Consort, this coupling brings new life on earth. It is on a Spiritual level, the unifying of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine to bring forth the third, consciousness. On the physical, it is the union of the Earth and Sun to bring about the fruitfulness of the growing season.   On Beltane eve the Celts would build two large fires, Bel Fires, lit from the nine sacred woods. The Bel Fire is an invocation to Bel (Sun God) to bring His blessings and protection to the tribe. The herds of cattle were ritually driven between two needfires (fein cigin). The herds were driven through to purify, bring luck and protect them as well as to insure their fertility before they were taken to summer grazing lands. An old Gaelic saying: "Eadar da theine Bhealltuinn" - "Between two Beltane fires".  (Ovo je clanak sa witchvox.com , imaju 'zgodnih' informacija, pa ako nekoga zanima nek zvirne...) Inace, Beltane, na stranu to sto je jedan od 4 glavna blagdana,mi je jedan od najdrazih. Cinjenica da ljeto dolazi i da je napokon kraj zimi (mislim, ima i zima svoje cari, ali ja sam ipak ljetno bice), toplina, duhovna i fizička koju označava ovaj blagdan, i uopce, sama pozitivnost ovog dana su me uvijek, pa rekla bih veselile, ali to je nekako preslaba rijec. Ovo je jedan od onih dana u godini kada se sjetim biti zahvalna za jednostavne stvari poput topline sunca, malih vila u svojoj sobi, cinjenice da se 'bavim' magijom i onih malo manje jednostavnih, da sam ziva, da sam ovdje, u ovom trenutku...i da mi je to dovoljan razlog da budem sretna... Merry Beltane and all the best to everyone!! |
