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vaxjediIt's Beltaine.
Beltaine is my favorite holiday. And not just because nifty pagans usually want to fuck on Beltaine. Now, I have nothing against fucking nice pagans, nor with them fucking each other. In fact, it is one of my favorite hobbies. But, that isn't the entire point of Beltaine for me.
All the major pagan holidays are nature based. Winter is coming, spring has sprung, oh shit, here comes winter again, etc. But Beltaine, while it is a celebration of spring, for me it is a celebration of celebration. It is about having parties and having fun and sucking the marrow out of life.
Beltaine is a holiday commemorating the fact that life is good.
That why it is my favorite holiday. Because that is a concept that I can get behind. Sure there is suffering. Sure there is pain. Sure we must work, sacrifice, toil and trouble. That's part of life. But life can be good. We were given the capacity for fun. Ears to hear laughter and music. Lips to kiss with. Tongues to taste with. Eyes to see and gaze and leer. Mouths to laugh and sing with. Legs to run and dance with. Bodies to share and enjoy and caress and admire.
Sins of the flesh don't exist. We were made to be machines of joy. It is one of our myriad of purposes and potentials.
Beltaine celebrates that. Faith in the beauty, joy and vitality of the human animal.
Happy Beltaine. Keep the Faith.
Beltaine is my favorite holiday. And not just because nifty pagans usually want to fuck on Beltaine. Now, I have nothing against fucking nice pagans, nor with them fucking each other. In fact, it is one of my favorite hobbies. But, that isn't the entire point of Beltaine for me.
All the major pagan holidays are nature based. Winter is coming, spring has sprung, oh shit, here comes winter again, etc. But Beltaine, while it is a celebration of spring, for me it is a celebration of celebration. It is about having parties and having fun and sucking the marrow out of life.
Beltaine is a holiday commemorating the fact that life is good.
That why it is my favorite holiday. Because that is a concept that I can get behind. Sure there is suffering. Sure there is pain. Sure we must work, sacrifice, toil and trouble. That's part of life. But life can be good. We were given the capacity for fun. Ears to hear laughter and music. Lips to kiss with. Tongues to taste with. Eyes to see and gaze and leer. Mouths to laugh and sing with. Legs to run and dance with. Bodies to share and enjoy and caress and admire.
Sins of the flesh don't exist. We were made to be machines of joy. It is one of our myriad of purposes and potentials.
Beltaine celebrates that. Faith in the beauty, joy and vitality of the human animal.
Happy Beltaine. Keep the Faith.
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Date: 2002-05-01 06:36 pm (UTC)This last few days/weeks it's been all too easy for me to forget the reason I still celebrate the holidays at all.
I can practically feel the knots inside me insisting it's time to mourn, the celebrate, then keep going.
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Date: 2002-05-02 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-02 06:10 am (UTC)