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PaGaian Beltaine/High Spring Meditation

There are two parts to this meditation: it begins with the “Preparation” (1:56 mins), then the meditation (14:34 mins). Allow about 25 minutes of undisturbed time for this: that would include about 12 minutes for writing or quiet contemplating. You may like a little more time than this – for more writing at the end. […]

Beltaine/Samhain @ EarthGaia November 2025 C.E.

In our and Earth’s everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun, we move into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain – as these Seasons are named in many Old European traditions. It is the cross-quarter transition between Equinox and Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the transition into High Spring/Beltaine, towards the Summer Solstice, and in the […]

Samhain/Beltaine @ EarthGaia May 2025 C.E.

At this time of our annual orbit around Mother Sun, Earth’s tilt moves us into the Seasons of Samhain and Beltaine – as they are commonly named in Old European traditions. In the Southern Hemisphere, the dark part of the day continues to grow and dominate, and in the Northern Hemisphere the light part of […]

PaGaian Beltaine/High Spring Meditation

This meditation is part of the PaGaian Cosmology Meditations published in 2015 on CD (which are still available), but offered here freely. The meditations offer a Deep Time perspective incorporated into the Seasonal Wheel of the Year. Allow about 25 minutes of undisturbed time for this: that would include about 12 minutes for writing or […]

Beltaine/Samhain @ EarthGaia November 2024 C.E.

In our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun we move into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain, as these Seasons are named in many Old European traditions. It is the cross-quarter transition between Equinox and Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the transition into High Spring/Beltaine, towards the Summer Solstice, and in the Northern Hemisphere it […]

Recognising the Beauty whom She Desires

This is the traditional response of the group to each participant in the Beltaine ceremonial circle, after each has spoken of, or expressed in some way, the beauty that they are – recognising and naming themselves as the Beauty whom She desires: it may be with a photo of themselves at anytime in their lives, […]

Samhain/Beltaine @ EarthGaia May 2024 C.E.

As Earth’s tilt moves us into the Seasons of Samhain and Beltaine – as they are commonly named in Old European traditions, the dark part of the day continues to grow and dominate in the Southern Hemisphere, and the light part of the day continues to grow and dominate in the Northern Hemisphere. The actual […]

A Southern Hemisphere Wheel of the Year

I was born in the Southern Hemisphere – in the Great South Land of Australia – and as a white Western European girl child.  Most of the texts and graphics explaining the Cosmos to an Australian and white child were (and still often are) drawn from the Northern Hemisphere perspective. The Moon in her phases were […]

Beltaine/Samhain @ EarthGaia November 2023 C.E.

As our planet Earth, and we Her inhabitants, orbit Mother Sun in our everyday sacred journey,[i] we move into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain, the cross-quarter transition between Equinox and Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the transition into High Spring (or Beltaine, as it may be named) towards the Summer Solstice, and in the Northern […]

Samhain/Beltaine @ EarthGaia May 2023 C.E.

In our orbit around Mother Sun, our everyday sacred journey,[i] Earth’s tilt moves us into the Seasons of Samhain and Beltaine, as they are named in Old European traditions. It is the cross-quarter Moment between Equinox and Solstice: that is, in the Southern Hemisphere between Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice, and in the Northern Hemisphere between […]

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