Hawthorne's Blog – April 2015 Archive (3)

This week, we celebrate Beltane! Beltane occurs on Friday, May 1.  It's a festival of Fertility and Love as we welcome the flowering of Nature's Return. In our mythology Beltane represents the Mating of the Goddess and the God. It's The Original White Wedding!

So, we'll talk in more detail about the meaning and significance of May Day from our earliest history.  Plus we'll talk about the mythologies and customs that are traditionally associated with Beltane.  And, while we're at it;…

Here we are well into the Spring season.  Have you done any Spring Cleaning yet?     It's time we Hop to It!   



The idea of Spring Cleaning actually goes way back, and we'll take a look at why Spring has become the time when we Clean House.  

 

And, while House Cleaning IS TERRIBLY, BORINGLY mundane, it does have magickal implications, and so we'll talk about some ways we can bring our Magick into our chores in some very powerful ways.



While we're clearing out our…

........I'm dedicating this weeks show to one of the Five Cardinal Elements, the Element of Air. It's a good topic for April because, by many traditions, Air is associated with Springtime and Day's Beginning.



Usually associated with Men's Mysteries, Air is most often thought of as on the Mental Plane.



The Romans gave the month of April it's name, which they called, Aprilis. For the Romans, it signifies a time of unfolding leaves and flowers.



So we'll take a look…