7 Sisters of Beltane (Bealtaine)

Tue, May 1, 2007 - 1:35 AM
Bealtaine

Cross quarter days fall between four solar events
One of two Equinoxes, two Soltices, past, future tense.

Between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, life waking and dream.
Dawn is breaking, Gaia awaking, flowers bloom, brown turns green.

Samhain's compliment, the Yang to the Yin.
But they share many qualities, for the veils are both thin

With Imbolc and Ostara, the three seed celebrations.
Fertility deserves, does not need salutations.

The Tuatha Dé Danann, the peoples of the goddes Danu,
May have shown the Milesieans what the Druids can do.

You can see it as curse or see it as Gift
That no line occurs where history becomes myth.

Seven Sisters rise just before the sun.
Seven joyous sisters, imbibing for fun.

They sit on a Plough, they request the pull
Of their engine and pilot, of Taurus the bull.

Seven Sisters in Beltane, each one of a kind,
Ride out in the sky with the sun just behind.

May the first, May Day, we’ll play until we burst,
Roll in the grass and praise nature’s new birth,

Celebrating spring and flowering life.
Unite masculine with feminine, like husband and wife

Or God and Goddess, sensual appreciation.
The spirit of the time is felt through every nation.

Fertile soil, new beginnings and no time to tire.
No time to waste, make haste, leap the fire.

The time of blossoming, the time of flowering,
Sacred Bees busy feeding Sacred Queens devouring.

So much to do today, So much to do in May,
All my work is falling in to place but all I want to do is play.
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image - Beltane by Arwens Grace
arwensgrace.deviantart.com/art/...38866