The author with friends at a Beltane celebration, featuring a Maypole (Photo: Emily Guenther) Beltane is a holiday celebrated by many Earth-based spiritual traditions. It falls on May 1st and is ...

May Day has ancient, pagan roots, harmonizing with a modern-day appreciation of its association with the verdant, reanimating time of mid-spring. Beltane is the name of the pagan celebration of one of ...

What Is Beltane and Why Do We Celebrate It? Beltane is the name of a Gaelic May Day festival, typically celebrated in Ireland, Isle of Man and Scotland. Taking place between the spring equinox and the ...

May 1 is known around the world as May Day, Beltane, Labour Day and International Workers' Day. In the United States it's Loyalty Day. There's a wide variety of celebrations for May Day, although most ...

Hold My Broom is an OnMilwaukee exclusive series exploring the magickal, mystical and cackle-worthy. For many, May 1 marks the time when we can finally start getting stoked for summer. Others know it ...

Thursday evening, senior Mary Fingerholz will write a message of growth on a ribbon attached to a maypole in a St. Paul Park. She will weave her ribbon and those of other University Pagan Society ...