Can you feel the tremor in the air?
The burgeoning lustfullness, the burning fires of passion?
I am so excited! So way above and beyond mere words!
Spring is sprung, Beltane approaches and I have found an absolute treasure of knowledge:
Beltane is the Sex Sabbat just as Samhain, held six months hence, is the Death Sabbat. All other Beltane (also called May Eve or Walpurgis Night) customs are minor compared with those that explicitly celebrate human sex and fertility. Up to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century, marriage vows were conveniently forgotten at Beltane in many rural European villages. Newly formed ‘couples’ went into the plowed fields at night to lie down together and copulate in order to ensure the fertility of the coming year’s crops. The Catholic Church could not stamp out this ancient pagan tradition. It took the dour Protestants who suppressed May Eve celebrations in England by passing and enforcing laws against public gatherings around Maypoles with their accompanying dances and fertility rites….
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The Pink Investigator proposes to bathe in the morning May Day dew, we shall celebrate our Goddesses, reawakening rituals of promise and fecundity.
SD
The Adventures of Sylvia Deren 