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Áine, Rowan Kal, 2026, digital painting

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Dia duit Meitheamh🙋🏻‍♀️☀️🌷

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"In Ireland bulrush was considered a fairy plant as its Irish name indicates: coigeal na mban sí or ‘fairy woman’s spindle’. In Scotland it was believed that if a bulrush was gathered at midsummer midnight and then wrapped in a shroud, that it would guarantee freedom from every ailment for the rest of the person's life."

—Ireland's Wild Plants – Myths, Legends & Folklore by Niall Mac Coitir.

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". . .The Coligny calendar tells us Beltane is exactly one lunar month (30 days) before the midsummer solstice. . .

. . .Beltane would have been celebrated at some point from May 20 up to the midsummer solstice on June 21!

That is a bit of a surprise, but the calendar itself is giving us clues that this is likely the case. The crucial central day of Beltane, SAMONIOS Day 1 has its notations swapped with those of DUMANIOS Day 1, the day of the summer solstice, linking these two days of Beltane and midsummer. These two months of SAMONIOS and DUMANIOS swap other days too, most significantly they also swap the days of their full moon. These two months are so intimately linked, almost as if we should consider them part of the same time event."

—"Beltane and its Relationship to the Summer Solstice" by Helen McKay

Beltane and its relationship to the summer solstice

Talking about the latest research into Beltane as the start of the summer season and the Celtic year

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“Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, An Hobad

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Meitheamh

“Magical tea” with fig leaves, fruits and leaves of garden strawberries, fresh mint, savory . As I child I couldn’t help but wait for the summer to come for one particular reason. To leave my home town and go [back] to my grandparents’ in the country. The more the time passes, the more I give myself an account of what exactly this kind of escape[s] had been given me. This year I came to the…

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