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The Simpsons and Wicca
After dabbling in Buddhism it appears that Lisa Simpson in the latest episode of The Simpsons has embraced Wicca. Here is the exchange…
Bart: “Lisa made me do it. She put a witch spell on me.”
Lisa: “No, I didn’t. Besides, it’s called Wicca, and it’s empowering.”
Bart: “Wicca is just a Hollywood fad.”
Lisa: “That’s Kabbalah! KABBALAH!” (Lisa starts to choke Bart)
For those who don’t want to be TOO fertile
Worried about getting with child this May Day? Do a cooler jump instead of leaping over the fire!
Synchronicity tie-in to Beltane
Our local celebration of Take Back The Night is happening on April 30th as well.
One more on Beltane
The Google News round-up.
Happy holiday everyone, and remember to keep those…
While I’m at it…
If you are looking for a pagan Beltane celebration to attend Witchvox has your hookup.
Merry Beltane
“There’ve been riots all over the city to-night. It’s May Day, you see.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today and tomorrow are generally when most modern pagans celebrate Beltane…
Beltaine, properly pronounced “Beh-tan-yew,” or “byel-tin-yuh” but generally pronounced phonetically as “Bell-tane” by almost everyone these days, introduces the second half of the Celtic year – summer…
The “light” season of samos, Beltane is a fire festival second only in importance to Samhain, and indeed they parallel many of the same aspects. Beltane itself is a modern name, and seems to be derived from the Old Celtic Belo-tenia, fire of Belos. “Belos” is a form of Belenos, a solar god associated with cattle. – Red Selchie
Many think of May 1st as the original “Labor Day”, culminating from the historic Chicago labor protests, here is an article about the evolution from fertility festival to labor holiday (their pagan history is a bit spotty, but a decent article nonetheless).
Even though the rest fof the world still celebrates “Labor Day” on “May Day”, the US officially celebrates it in September.
Labor Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in the United States and Canada since the 1880s. The September date has remained unchanged even though it was encouraged to adopt May 1 as Labor Day, the date celebrated in the Soviet Union as its labour holiday. Moving the holiday, in addition to violating the U.S. tradition, could have been viewed as aligning U.S. labor movements with internationist sympathies. -Wikipedia
Honestly…
Not much time to post anything of merit today, so instead I point you to Chas Clifton’s blog where he gives a run-down on the 50th anniversary of Gerald Gardner’s “Witchcraft Today”.
Community
An excellent article on community by Tom Owen-Towlenew presented by new UU blogger Phillip Lund, here is just one of the great quotes to be found:
“…authentic UU beloved community is comprised of compassionate arms? arms that engage in firm, fair, friendly wrestling matches rather than blood baths or back-stabbing; arms that huddle together in times of sorrow and swing open in rejoicing; arms that reach outward in justice-building and peacemaking and not merely inward in narcissistic embrace.”
March For Women’s Lives
Of the over one million people at the March For Women’s Lives several were of course modern pagans, here is one account of the day from HipWitch.
If you have been around the religious blogosphere for awhile, you have most likely heard of Jeff Sharlet. An author and journalist, he helped found two seminal web sites full of insightful commentary on faith in today’s world (Killing the Buddha and The Revealer), co-wrote a book about religious subcultures in America (which included a [...]
The Wild Hunt blog is a must-read for those interested in news and events dealing with the modern Pagan and Heathen communities – and religion coverage in general.
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