Hi Janice, I'm usually on the main board and quite frequently forget to check this one. - Sharon

It's almost that time. I love this sabbat, cause it's the heigth of the sun's power and it's all down hill towards fall from here! And of course, as you guessed, fall is my fav time of year. I also love working with fairie energy at Midsummer and was wondering what you guys are planning on doing to celebrate. I'm joping I'm getting ready for surgery as I've been wishing and praying all along to have surgery on June 21st, but if not, I will be doing something special I promise you that. Anyone want to share any ideas? Blessed be, Kelle

Every Beltane there is a celebration in Kings Mountain National Park right between N.C. and S.C. border. It starts on a Friday and runs through Sunday. There are cabins you can rent for the weekend. We have a May pole and wonderful rituals.

A bit late in finding this board, but I hope that you enjoyed a good celebration! I find it amusing that a lot of our old traditions that we continue to utilize seem so 'foreign' to standard congregations, and they are suprised when we 'incorporate' them, when all we are doing is what our forebearers have always done! I continue to be amazed by reading my full length 13 vol. set of Fraziers Golden Bough and finding that even the most 'pure' holy days will always have some ancient beginnings. Another 'new' book just published is called 'The Secret Origins of the Bible' by Tim Callahan, pub. in 2002 by Millennium Press, has a lot of graphic links between the old and the new, relatively speaking of course. Feel free to email if you want to discuss things, I seem to almost stay on the state or main boards and forget to wander off into the nether regions here.

Just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a happy upcoming Beltane! I'd be interested in what everyone has planned. I'm trying to decide what to do as a solitary... Blessed Be! Kelle