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Three stories from the folklore of Britain — Cornwall, Scotland, and Wales — and the insistence that runs beneath them all: that summer does not simply arrive on its own. The deep history of Beltane is thinner than we might wish. The sources are fragmentary and sometimes contested, and the ancient origins people often sense…
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A guided meditation and a poem for the turning of the year This episode is made for Beltane — the ancient Celtic festival that falls on the first of May, marking the beginning of summer and the height of the year’s creative power. Listen on this day if you can. But it will find you…
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There is a place I keep returning to in my mind. It is the edge of a field — the point where the mown grass ends, where the hedgerow begins, where the path leads out into something older and less certain. It is a threshold. A place of becoming. That feeling, of standing at the…