This week marks the start of summer as celebrated in Northern Europe, with today being the start of the Beltane ceremonies in the Celtic/Gaelic countries, which is marked in Scotland and Ireland by various ceremonies which culminate in the full moon festivities next weekend when the forces of nature are summoned as we crown the May Queen, and
kill the old King. There are variations on this theme all over Europe..
Tonight is the Fire Festival in Edinburgh in which skyclad body painted celebrants do lots of dancing and carousing around fires.
I shall make my own dedications with a set devised to untether the conscious mind from it's restraints to reunite with the elements. It will be trippy!
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