Speaker For The Diodes - May 1st, 2014

05:24 am - QotD

"The May Queen represents everything to me. She is the symbol of life, Mother Earth, goddess, maiden, fertility, and potential. Even now that I am the May Queen I talk about her as something removed from me. I just have to trust that the moment I walk on the hill, I am her. I wouldn't say it's an out-of-body experience but I won't remember a large proportion of the night." -- Erin Chadwick, quoted in "All Fired Up: The people behind the Beltane Festival", 2012-04-28 via The Wild Hunt

[To all my friends celebrating it today (or recovering from celebrating last night), a blessed Beltane! And to folks celebrating in countries that aren't terrified of having their holidays tainted with even the remotest whiff of communism (*sigh*), happy Labour Day / International Workers' Day!]

Today is
Gregorian: 01 May 2014
Julian: 18 April 2014
Hebrew: 01 Iyyar 5774
Islamic: 01 Rajab 1435
Persian: 11 Ordibehesht 1393
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.1.]6.16
Indian: 11 Vaisakha 1936