2012

[Xaos]

Summer-

Being part Cherokee myself (like 1/8), I had no clue about the rattlesnake prophecy, very interesting,
going to have to look more into that.

[Daniel of the Rose]

amj......
you point out some sweet stuff ... that lots of us overlook ...at times it crosses our minds........but than a busy clutter comes around......................

but ya ..... you pointed out the difficult and processing of BREAD(sweet outlook)......but you also jogged up in my thought....but what else can go in the same department as this...none other than: WINE

BREAD and WINE..............then the thought of Christ comes to mind..............."do this this in memory of me".............at his time towards completion....so to speak...used two examples which takes a 'process' ...it's like he is also trying to say "learn" from it........that we also are going through a process like this ........so to speak........a bun in the oven..... grape juice(wine)in a wooden kegger........soul in a body...    .....so it's a matter of how we are gonna taste.....

no ..amj .....im not laughing at ya.......valid point...
..im at work... i can make more points towards this .......just kinda............but i hope from what i typed ....i hope can give ya sense of where it..(i know it doesn't answer where the IDEA of processing such things as this..or does it.....)..maybe it's also Christ saying he also taught us this ....through the CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE UNIVERSE.....the Christ Consciousness........like in simple sense..
..who taught ya this ....is that i taught you this..........................so to speak...use it in good standing........like he said til the time.....like we are told to use much..with our reasoning(God-given gift)..................well we will have to see..........anybody got any points or opinions.........no disrespect if i have offended anyone...

[annemarie j]

hey Dan! I like that answer. symbolism's always good (sweet) in my books

[Summer Wine]

The Old Testament contains many references to honey as a symbol for all that is pleasant and desirable. For example, the book of Exodus famously describes the Promised Land as a 'land flowing with milk and honey' (33:3). There, however, the Hebrew devash refers to the sweet syrup produced from the juice of the date. In contrast, bees' honey is referred to explicitly in The Book of Judges when Samson found a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of a lion (14:. The word "honey" appears 61 times in the King James Version of the Bible.

There's way more. But that's interesting, is it not.

So many connexions....so little time

Very interesting - annemarie.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070327_comet_technovelgy.html

Green Comet Spotted Down Under
By Bill Christensen
posted: 26 March 2007
01:41 pm ET


 
Comet Lovejoy (see photo), discovered recently by Terry Lovejoy of Thornlands, Australia, is on its way into the solar system. The existence of this lovely green comet was confirmed by John Drummond of Gisborne, New Zealand.
A green comet, you say? If you're a science fiction fan, I know what you're thinking - what about Cometeers?

In his excellent 1936 novel The Cometeers, author Jack Williamson recounts the story of what appears to be a strange green comet entering the solar system.

"Perhaps it's a comet." Still frowning, Bob Star swung back toward the observatory. "It looked like one - it was a short streak of that queer, misty green, instead of the point a star would show..."
Inside the chilly gloom of the observatory, Bob sat down at the telescope. Its mechanisms whirred softly, in swift response to his touch. The great barrel swung to search space with its photoelectric eyes, and the pale beam of the projector flashed across to the concave screen.

...He stepped up the electronic magnification. Vindemiatrix and the fainter stars slipped out of the field. The comet hung alone, and swiftly grew. Its shape was puzzling - a strangely perfect ellipsoid. A greenish football, he thought, kicked at the System out of the night of space - by what?

It turns out that they are seeing an alien force field millions of miles in extent, containing worlds enslaved by the Cometeers, an alien race of energy beings.

Sure, you're skeptical - it's just science fiction. Sometimes a green comet - is just a green comet; cyanogen and diatomic carbon in the coma cause the green color. But what if I told you this green comet is sneaking up from below the solar system?

Comet Lovejoy's orbit is almost perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic. At present (20-Mar-2007), the comet is approaching the solar system from below, moving from southern to northern skies. Comet Lovejoy is expected to brighten to 7th magnitude (not quite a naked-eye object), at the point in its orbit when it is closest to Earth (.44 AU - about 41 million miles).

This sounds underhanded to me; it's just the sort of thing you'd expect from the Cometeers. Fortunately, the Aussies (and Kiwis) are obviously alert.

Read about another green comet - Comet Machholz from 2005. Read more at SpaceWeather and Possum Observatory; thanks to Fred for the tip.

(This Science Fiction in the News story used with permission from Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction.)

and funny interesting headlines popping out at me-

do we really know what time it is? I mean time is measured by the earth's rotation. And time is what "they" tell us it is.

So what time is it really?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/26/AR2007032601779.html
On Paper, Time Puts an End to Life
Falling Newspaper Circulation Cited; Magazine's Photos to Be Posted Online

By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 27, 2007; Page D03

Life is dead. Again.

Time Inc. pulled the plug on its venerable nameplate yesterday for the third time in 35 years, saying it no longer makes sense to print the publication as a magazine. Instead, the company said it will launch a "major portal" online to host its millions of award-winning photographs. (like a stargate portal?)

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2033498,00.html
Is anyone sure what time it is in the United States?

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=278920&leftnm=6&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
Time for a paradigm shift
Surinder Kapur / New Delhi March 27, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6483969.stm?ls
Time change marks end of an era

Is it time?

[annemarie j]

Great post dear Summer

Yes. It is Time!

[Summer Wine]

http://www.greatdreams.com/crop/bee/bee.htm

Hey anyone remember this? Had forgotten about this, but been doing a lot of research on bees and myths. And "The Pollen Path".

And just my funky self but June 24th the night this circle was made was St. John's Day. Or what used to be the real summer equinox.

And then I was wondering and asking myself why all those great cathedrals and churchs are almost all dedicated to either St. John (the baptist who lived on wild honey in the wilderness) or Mary.

Not Jesus?

And that hexagon appearing on Saturn, hmmm just like a honeycomb. And did you know that France is nicknamed "hexagon" cause suppposedly it's shaped like a hexagon.

Interesting times.

[Summer Wine]

http://www.crystalinks.com/2012.html

2012
Prophecies throughout time have named this as the end time, movement to a golden age, gold referencing the alchemy of time and consciousness. To examine the accelerating physical Earth changes and consciousness of humanity, recognizing and healing its issues, is to understand this evolutionary process and what is occurring.

[annemarie j]

thanks for hte link summer

[annemarie j]

just noticed another synch regarding Bees. in this connection between this (from Goro's latest post):

'Merapi' or 'Merapis', the plural, can be interpreted as 'Mer-Apis' or 'Pyramid-Osiris' since 'mer' meant pyramid and 'Apis' was a bull-god identified with Osiris in ancient Egypt. This is important because 'Pyramid-Osiris' implies 'Tomb of Osiris' (pyramids are normally built as tombs) and 'Tomb of Osiris' is synonymous with 'Tomb of  Jesus', Jesus being the biblical version of Osiris-Horus. And it is of course from the 'tomb of Jesus' that he rises again, i.e. Resurrection.

The storyline is supplemented by the two Mt. Merapis pinpointing the epicenter of the March 28, 2005 Sumatra quake (1300 killed) that came just three months after Sumatra's Boxing Day 'Great Flood' that shocked the world, the epicenter of which is also approximately aligned with the Merapis. In 2005, Easter fell on March 27, practically coinciding with the Sumatra quake #2. It was thus a 'Resurrection earthquake'.

http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/grail-resurrection.htm


and this (from wikipedia) on honey bees:

Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees which represent a far smaller fraction of bee diversity than most people suspect; of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees, there are only seven presently-recognized species with a total of 44 subspecies (Engel, 1999; historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognized). These bees are the only living members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis, and all of which produce and store liquefied sugar ("honey") to some degree, and construct colonial nests out of wax secreted by the workers in the colony. Other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are considered true honey bees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bees



The word "apis" shows up in both places. hmm...?

[Kephra]

Yes, and Mer also = Sea in French, and suggests King as in Merovingian (Da Vinci Code). 

The first of the Merovingian line was Merowig.

According to legend, Merowig was conceived when Clodio's wife encountered a Quinotaur, a sea monster which could change shapes while swimming. Though never stated, it is implied that she was impregnated by it. This legend was related by Fredegar in the seventh century, and may have been known earlier. The legend is probably a back-formation or folk etymology used to explain the Salian Franks' origin as a sea coast dwelling people, and based on the name itself. The "Mero-" or "Mer-" element in the name suggests a sea or ocean (see Old English "mere," Latin "mare," or even the Modern English word "mermaid," etc.). The "Salian" in "Salian Franks" may be a reference to salt, a reminder of their pre-migration home on the shores of the North Sea (alternatively, it may refer to the Isala or Ijssel river behind which their homeland, the Salland, may have been located).

So many dots, so little time.

[Roger13]

Probably old news but i was looking at the forum calendar pages and noticed it's fellow forum member Phoenixs' birthday on 21.12.So come 2012...    

[Summer Wine]

The Strange Story of the Knight of St. Bees
http://www.stbees.org.uk/history/hist_sbman1.htm
The St. Bees Man and the Medieval Way of Death

snip
Anthony de Lucy's status as a crusader is consistent with a number of observed features. The Teutonic Knights, like the Hospitallers, might well have been the sort of intelligent people who would have sheets of beeswax-coated linen ready to wrap round their more distinguished casualties. If Anthony had taken crusading vows to expiate some sin - as others did - this would help to explain the rope round his neck, which we have taken as a sign of penitence. One thinks of the young King Henry, son of Henry II, who on his deathbed had himself laid naked on ashes, a stone for a pillow, a rope round his neck. If Anthony died in a holy cause, this might even help to explain the chalice on the effigy - if that is what it is. Again, the unusual circumstances of his death might explain why, as we shall see in a moment, there are so few other well-preserved bodies. On the other hand, is it not unlikely that anyone would go to the trouble of transporting the great weight of lead-wrapped, clay-packed, boxed body all the way back from the Baltic or the Mediterranean?There, for the moment, we rest our case: but new evidence, documentary or archaeological, could well set us searching again. If we knew where the lead was mined, or where the pollen in the beeswax grew, it might be possible to clinch the argument, but so far the best that the laboratories at Manchester University have been able to tell us is that the lead of the coffin is not similar to other lead samples from St. Bees, and does not appear to be typical of other lead samples from elsewhere in the U.K. *

The second question to be discussed is how unusual is this burial? In one respect it is probably unique: we believe that on no previous occasion has there been a full autopsy upon a preserved body from the Middle Ages. (47B) The only recent report of a preserved body of this period is that of the brief examination in 1969 of the remains of Archbishop Godfrey de Ludham (d. 1265) in York Minster. There was a lead coffin, but no shroud. The flesh had hydrolysed to adipocere, but was far less complete than at St. Bees. It was not possible to say whether embalming had been attempted. For circumstances of burial close to those at St. Bees, one has to go back to 1852, when the body presumed to be that of William Lyndwood, bishop of St. Davids, and author of the Provinciale, who died in 1446, was found in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. There was no surviving coffin, but ten thicknesses of waxed cloth had been used to wrap the body. The bones had fallen from their sockets but the shape of the body survived in the form of adipocere. The viscera had not been removed, and the body had not been embalmed. (47A) Eighteen years earlier, in 1834, a vault was opened at Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, disclosing two coffins. One, which was not airtight, contained `an entire human body, carefully wrapped in cerecloths', i.e. linen bandages saturated with a resinous compound, neatly parcelled with cords, in at least two layers. Some of the body, `a female of small stature', was merely skeletal, some was in the form of adipocere. It had not been disembowelled. `On exposing the head of the body, a mass of long curling hair was found, placed round the neck and under the chin, of a glossy brilliancy and auburn colour, approaching to a reddish tinge.' The second coffin contained a foetus, possibly removed after the death of the mother. There was no evidence of the date of death

http://www.stbees.org.uk/history/hist_stones.htm
The Historic Stones of St. Bee’s Priory

This is a description of the stones on public display in the History Area of the Priory in the south aisle. The History Area was created in the 1970's by the author of this web page to bring together the many stones scattered around the Priory, which constitutes the best group of medieval and earlier sculpture in West Cumbria. The grave slabs show a variety of styles, and as was common, used images to convey whom they commemorate. There are three interesting effigies, some stones with inscriptions, and other interesting stones, like the "Green Monk"

Each stone tells a tale.............


http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/aa/st_bees.html
St. Bee’s – Mysterious Tales of Britain

http://www.ordotempli.org/patron_saint_of_our_Priory.htm
The Magistral Grand Priory of The Holy Lands
(Notre Dame, Saint Mary of Magdalene)

Patron Saint of our Grand Priory

St. BERNARD of CLAIRVAUX

Also known as

Mellifluous Doctor of the Church; Last of the Fathers of the Holy Church

Patronage
beekeepers, bees, candlemakers, chandlers, Gibraltar, Queens College Cambridge, wax-melters, wax refiners

Representation
Cistercian having a vision of Mary; Cistercian with a beehive; Cistercian with a chained demon; Cistercian with a mitre on the ground beside him; Cistercian with a swarm of bees nearby; Cistercian with a white dog; Cistercian writing and watching Mary; beehive; bees; book; instruments of the Passion; pen; white dog .

Sister of St. Lazarus and St. Martha, she is called "the Penitent". St. Mary was given the name 'Magdalen' because, though a Jewish girl, she lived in a Gentile town called Magdale, in northern Galilee, and her culture and manners were those of a Gentile.

St. Luke records that she was a notorious sinner, and had seven devils removed from her. She was present at Our Lords' Crucifixion, and with Joanna and Mary, the mother of James and Salome, at Jesus' empty tomb.

Fourteen years after Our Lord's death, St. Mary was put in a boat by the Jews without sails or oars - along with Sts. Lazarus and Martha, St. Maximin (who baptized her), St. Sidonius ("the man born blind"), her maid Sera, and the body of St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin. They were sent drifting out to sea and landed on the shores of Southern France, where St. Mary spent the rest of her life as a contemplative in a cave known as Sainte-Baume.

She was given the Holy Eucharist daily by angels as her only food, and died when she was 72, an exceptionally long life for those days. St. Mary was transported miraculously, just before she died, to the chapel of St. Maximin, where she received the last sacraments.

In the year 1099 the Crusaders were victorious. In the years following the Knights Templar were formed and cathedrals were built under the patronage of 'Notre Dame', 'Our Lady' known by many to refer to Mary Magdalene and NOT, as so many believed, Mary, the mother of Jesus.

The Order of the Templars, or 'The Poor Knights of the Temple of Christ and Solomon' was, recorded by a Frankish history writer, founded in 1118 by nine Knights under their leader Hugues de Payen, a noble man from Champagne, France. They are said to have presented themselves to the King Baudouin I in Jerusalem, who had replaced his brother Godfroi. They were invited to stay in the King's palace and seem to have been very interested in the stables of Solomon, the only part that remained from the temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.

Our Order had as its motto Poverty, Chastity and Obedience and claimed their aim was to protect pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. In 1127 the group returned to France and in 1128 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, nephew of one of the original nine succeeded as the clerical head of the Order. For two hundred years after this, Gothic cathedrals dedicated to Notre Dame were erected all over Europe. Saint Bernard became one of the church leaders of the century and has left behind 200 lyrical sermons dedicated to the Madonna with themes of love inspired by 'The Song of Solomon' from the Old Testament.
 

[Summer Wine]

The artist, Aristotle says, imitates Nature. The trickster, practical joker and counterfeiter also imitate Nature, if you think about it. Certain insects imitate Nature so successfully that they become invisible, except to those who look at all things with suspicious eyes; and Philip K. Dick has memorably suggested that we may share space-time with "Zebra," a hypothetical gaian intelligence that we can't see because it disguises itself as the whole environment.

The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind.

Gaea (jê´e) also Gaia (gâ´e) noun
Greek Mythology.
The goddess of the earth, who bore and married Uranus and became the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.

coined by James Lovelock

theory that the planet earth is one giant organism, and that we do not share its consciousness because of our scaling (like the idea that our individual cells might be conscious but they (nor us) are not aware of the other's consciousness).  we as humans, might be the equivalent of the individual neurons of our brain, forming a network of communication for the entire planet.

The parable of the honey wine
Among the Masai people of East Africa, honey wine is brewed by a man and a woman who must remain chaste for two days before, and for the six day period during which the wine is fermenting. Should this couple commit a breach of chastity, not only would the wine be totally undrinkable, but the bees who produced the honey in the first place, would fly away. The first time I read this account I took the obvious anthropocentric bait, and interpreted the bees departure as a bad sign, something to be avoided at all cost. But do they fly away because they are indignant, or because, contrary to whatever the Masai may believe, the act of human sex has somehow, liberated the bees from the slavery of producing honey for another species? An act of conception, of nurturing the next human generation may thus be construed, not as a wrong, but as a balancing of the transgressions perpetrated against nature by the current generation.

I do not mention this account of Masai beekeeping only to offer an unorthodox interpretation of a complex set of metaphors. No matter which explanation we accept, we have also started to treat the Masai/bee myth as a source of mystery. I have chosen not to neutralize its import by finally confiding that, after all, this anecdote is just a fairy tale—The big bad wolf now dressed up in the sexy clothes of a copulating Masai couple. Rather, I ask that we attempt to apprehend a generalized version of the global human/bee relationship by stitching the Masai point of view to any of several other bee myths, and then stitching the two of them to the contradictory scientific points of view as espoused by EO Wilson and Donald Griffin who together state that, based on the "evidence", bees are or are not communicative. But that seems akin to stitching a piece of a Masai robe onto a scientist's field fatigues. In fact that is the whole point—all these versions need be coexistent if they are to birth a Gestalt reality. All together, they define the human relationship to bees. We might even get flippant here and imagine some bright young entomologist coaching the Masai couple to heights of rapture just to document the resultant waggle dance.

Lastly, is an intriguing version of the waggle dance that enlightens the bees to commence a once-in-lifetime swarm. "Enjoin together," commences the song that drives this dance: "form into a well-drilled unit, protect the queen, (listen to the beat now), go forth from the hive, venture into the world, and search for a new hive cavity with all the right attributes."
http://www.interspecies.com/pages/yeljack.html
Honey Bee Bandstand

Ultimately humanity will decide the outcome of our fate, we have 2 choices, 2 alternate realities in which we will ultimately arrive at one - our destiny is truly in our hands ( NO interference from on High, Order/Chaos has it's rules and reigns supreme after all - the BALANCE......) and as with any precognition and prophecy it has always been that way, WE decide, doom, destruction, or not......2012 has always been prophesied by the ancients as the catalyst for certain "timed" events around the wheel/circle if you will....our "dual" nature will eventually be replaced as the "Oneness" you hear so much about....you know....the hermaphrodite nature we were originally created as!! (hermaphrodite ever really looked at that word) twin, dual hermes and aphrodite.

Now think upon the concepts of Order and Chaos....when we think we are imposing "order" collectively as a species whilst all around we have created and continue to create war, misguidedly craving material desires based on greed and the love of money, creating mass injustice where a small few live in absolute luxury beyond the need levels of anyone whilst so many lack the very basic necessities of life like food and clean water................we live in illusion that we as a species create Order and yet we create imbalance....and THAT truly IS Chaos.......yet whoever would question such may be called a "King" of "Chaos" because he would challenge the false "Order"!!!!! Confused? Do not be worried, just turn things on their head.....all will become VERY clear

......an Empire and a Temple once thought they were the basis of Order......a man came who questioned this.....he died for this......those same two institutions considered him a rebel and an agent of Chaos and sedition.....yet he had put fire in people's hearts.....and those organisations were scared of this.....yet that fire could not be quenched it burnt within people's souls....so that Empire took the fire, caged it, boxed it and only let people see it through the walls and windows of their New false Temple......that fire burns within YOU, each and every one of you.....cast the shackles off and start to recognise the Truth within....and know that these shackles run long and deep in places where you may not be aware of them instantly.......think and be free......

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/show_beetalker_interview.html
WHY WOULD PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WANT TO SIT UP AND LISTEN TO US ABOUT WHY BEES ARE SPECIAL?

Well I think of bees not for the individual things they do, but as a whole, the way they're so integrated into nature. They pollinate, they produce honey, but they have this magnificent social structure that depends on each other in order to survive. And I think that's the fundamental lesson that we take out of a beehive is how important it is to rely on each other and depend on each other and work with each other if we're going to have a successful planet.

Can you make heads or tails? Just a whole bunch of stuff that I copied and pasted and in some jumbled up way makes perfect sense to me, it's all up to us folks. Gaia is talking to us -

And that Albert Einstein quote that everybody is quoting - Humanity can survive about 4 years with no bees. Why that brings us right up to 2012 doesn't it?

[annemarie j]

mind yer own beeswax?

 

[Summer Wine]

Woo hoo but pieces of the puzzle keep falling into place (in my little pea brain anyways)

May Day is coming, Full Moon is coming and Beltane is coming........

And look who's birthday May 1st just happens to be

May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest trained as a paleontologist and a philosopher, and was present at the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived such ideas as the Omega Point and the Noosphere.

Teilhard's primary book, The Phenomenon of Man, set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos. He abandoned a literal interpretation of creation in the Book of Genesis in favor of a metaphorical interpretation. This displeased certain officials in the Roman Curia, who thought that it undermined the doctrine of original sin developed by Saint Augustine. Teilhard's position was opposed by his church superiors, and his work was denied publication during his lifetime by the Roman Holy Office. Teilhard writes of the unfolding of the material cosmos, from the creation to the development of the noosphere in the present, to his vision of the Omega Point in the future. He was a leading proponent of orthogenesis, the idea that evolution occurs in a directional, goal driven way. To Teilhard, evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar system and whole-universe, Gaia Theory.
http://www.crystalinks.com/ezine.html (for the embedded links)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane
For the Celts, Beltane marked the beginning of the pastoral summer season when the herds of livestock were driven out to the summer pastures and mountain grazing lands. In modern Irish, Mí na Bealtaine ('month of Bealtaine') is the name for the month of May. The name of the month is often abbreviated to Bealtaine, with the festival day itself being known as Lá Bealtaine. The lighting of bonfires on Oidhche Bhealtaine ('the eve of Bealtaine') on mountains and hills of ritual and political significance was one of the main activities of the festival.[1][2]

In ancient Ireland the main Bealtaine fire was held on the central hill of Uisneach 'the navel of Ireland', the ritual centre of the country, which is located in what is now County Westmeath. In Ireland the lighting of bonfires on Oidhche Bhealtaine seems only to have survived to the present day in parts of County Limerick, especially in Limerick itself, as their yearly bonfire night, though some cultural groups have expressed an interest in reviving the custom at Uisneach and perhaps at the Hill of Tara. The lighting of a community Bealtaine fire from which individual hearth fires are then relit is also observed in modern times in some parts of the Celtic diaspora and by some Neopagan groups, though in the majority of these cases this practice is a cultural revival rather than an unbroken survival of the ancient tradition.[3][4][1][5]

Another common aspect of the festival which survived up until the early 20th century in Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and of the erection of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan (mountain ash) or whitethorn (hawthorn) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the 'May Bush' in Hiberno-English. The practice of decorating the May Bush with flowers, ribbons, garlands and colored egg shells has survived to some extent among the diaspora as well, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions observed on the East Coast of the United States.[1]

Beltane is a cross-quarter day, marking the midpoint in the Sun's progress between the vernal equinox and summer solstice. Since the Celtic year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is possible that the holiday was celebrated on the full moon nearest the midpoint between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice. The astronomical date for this midpoint is closer to May 5 or May 7, but this can vary from year to year.[6]
(lighting of the fires..........ooooooh ahhhhh)


We are birthing a rose egg!