| At Beltane, we honor the sacred marriage of the Lord and Lady and celebrate the pleasures of the physical realm. |
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| The ancient Celts and Saxons celebrated May 1st as Beltane or the day of fire. |
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| The May Day celebration of Beltane, involving bonfires on hilltops, has seen a revival. |
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| This makes the crucial link between the festival of May Day, the Beltane festival of fertility. |
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| We erected a Maypole for our first Beltane on this land and have celebrated with a Dance every year since. |
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| Two of my friends, Jenny and Sara, volunteered on short notice to conduct the Beltane ritual for our group. |
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| Oatcakes had some importance as festive foods, especially at Beltane and Christmas. |
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| It can be as simple as waking early to watch the sun rise on Beltane morning and wash your face in the dew. |
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| Every year at Beltane the High Priestess evoked the goddess and all prayed to her for prosperous times in the coming harvest. |
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| We held several meetings leading up to Beltane to discuss our various paths and what we each would like to include in the ritual. |
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| For example, they celebrate summer in a fertility rite known as Beltane. |
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| To the ancient Celts, spring signified fertility and growth, as marked by Beltane, or May Day, one of the four pagan fire festivals to mark the seasons. |
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| When the wheel begins to turn, soon the Beltane fires will burn. |
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| Around its trunk are ribbons and cords from last year's Beltane celebration whereby I asked my friends to hang ribbons denoting their wishes for the coming year. |
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| September passed and October brought one of my favorite holidays, Samhain, or better known as Halloween, my other favorite holiday was Beltane and that was in May. |
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| Popular times are pagan festivals, such as Hallowe'en, Beltane, the summer and winter solstices and the autumn and spring equinoxes. |
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| The four seasonal festivals celebrated in the Gaelic calendar, still observed to this day, are Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain. |
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| May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. |
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| The Beltane Park men took the lead on the halfhour mark when Andy Stewart forced home from a Kevin Hamill free-kick. |
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| April 30 Scotland Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh A bit risky but beautiful and traditional nevertheless. |
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| Two days after the incident Ozols took part in the burglary of a pensioner's ground floor flat in Beltane Court, Binley, Coventry. |
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| It followed the feast of Beltane, celebrating the sun's life-generating powers, while Samhain beckoned to winter and the dark nights ahead. |
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| It was known as Samhain and was one of four great Celtic festivals, which also included Imbolc Beltane and Lughnasadh. |
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| On the night of 30 April the Beltane Fire Festival takes place on Calton Hill, involving a procession followed by scenes inspired by pagan old spring fertility celebrations. |
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| Calan Haf parallels Beltane and other May Day traditions in Europe. |
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