Tag: Spring
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The Folklore of Daffodils and the Return of Spring
“Life’s a dog and then you die? No, no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.” Edward Abbey I noticed that the first daffodils are beginning to emerge on our local fairy fort, Rathvilly moat, so I wonder if this is a…
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Goddess and Bishop – Brigid
Thig an nathair as an tollLà donn Brìde,Ged robh trì troighean dhen t-sneachdAir leac an làir. The serpent will come from the holeOn the brown Day of Bríde,Though there should be three feet of snowOn the flat surface of the ground. Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica Vol. 1, 1900 St Brigid is also known as Mary…
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Walk Lightly in Spring, for the Earth is Pregnant
The light is growing – each and every day, the sun sets a little further along the horizon. Though it’s still cold, it’s nice to drive home in the light – and light enough to still be able to go for a walk when I get home. Though walking in the dark is nice, it’s…
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The Naked Form
Beltane is fast approaching – the house martins are back, the bluebells are coming out, the earth underfoot is soft and the air is turning warmer. Many thoughts are turning to the coming summer, the long days, the short nights, the summer clothes, or lack thereof. I’ve heard it said that Beltane arrives when it…
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Mad as a March Hare
Standing on the edge, with a cosmically delineated point where the tide turns from winter to spring, we teeter on the brink of the spring equinox. It is a time for madness. Many of us are not yet ready to run full tilt into the light of the summer sun – not yet ready to…