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05/18/2026

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Konohanasakuya-hime: The Blossom GoddessGazing out of my bedroom window here in New England this morning, the earth felt...
05/14/2026

Konohanasakuya-hime: The Blossom Goddess

Gazing out of my bedroom window here in New England this morning, the earth felt awash in pink and white. The cherry trees are at last in bloom again, drifting through the air like falling snow.

In Japanese mythology, Konohanasakuya-hime is the Blossom Princess, a goddess of flowers and of Mount Fuji, her name meaning “she who makes the trees bloom,” and her story carries both breathtaking beauty and a fierce strength.

When she became pregnant by her husband Ninigi, he questioned the child’s divine origin, and in response she entered a birthing hut and set it on fire, vowing that if the child were truly of divine lineage, she would survive. Within the flames, she gave birth, proving the truth of her body and her power.

Her connection to the cherry blossom runs deep, and in Japan the tradition of hanami, the gathering beneath flowering trees, has been practiced for centuries as a way of honoring this fleeting beauty. Families and friends sit together beneath the blossoms, sharing food and time, fully aware that the petals will fall within days, that this moment cannot be held onto for long.

I find myself thinking about how quickly the seasons turn once they begin, how the first blossoms feel like an arrival and a passing all at once, and how easy it is to miss them if we are not paying attention.

Konohanasakuya-hime moves through that exact space where life blooms completely, where it burns bright, where it trusts its own unfolding, and where it lets go just as freely.

Kiss the earth,
Jen

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May is Breast Awareness Month at New England Goddess Temple!Local Ladies: Please help by joining our BRA DRIVE!!!!Take c...
05/12/2026

May is Breast Awareness Month at New England Goddess Temple!

Local Ladies: Please help by joining our BRA DRIVE!!!!

Take care of yourself and your beautiful b***s, help a sister you've never met, and help Mother Earth! Bring your clean, gently used BRAS to the New England Goddess Temple during the month of May.

Ill-fitting bras can cause pain, bad posture, low self-esteem, and anxiety. Invest in a bra that fits you well because you're worth it! Here's how to get a good fit:
https://thebrarecyclers.com/bra-hacks-tips/guide-to-getting-fitted

Donate all those gently used bras in your drawer that don't fit you well to the Bra Recyclers.

They will go to individuals and families entering shelters and transitional programs, uninsured breast cancer survivors, youth aging out of the foster care system, and students from low-income families in Title l schools.

Here's what qualifies as a gently used bra:
https://thebrarecyclers.com/bra-hacks-tips/what-qualifies-as-a-gently-used-
Bra

Feel better knowing you've kept useful items out of landfill, gotten them into the hands of people who need them, and taken a small step toward reducing your carbon footprint. And small steps add up: When more of us have the support we need to step out in the world with comfort and confidence, we can do a lot more good!

If your old bras do not qualify as "gently used," please do NOT throw them in the trash! As of November 2022, that's illegal in Massachusetts. Here's what to do with them - and with any other used textiles - instead:
https://www.mass.gov/guides/clothing-and-textile-recovery

The Bra Recyclers is also happy to accept donations of new bras and new (with tag or in the package) underwear for people of all genders, including panties and boxers and briefs.

A heartfelt Thank You for your consideration and kindness!

This week’s schedule at New England Goddess Temple ✨-
05/11/2026

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The lilacs here in New England have just burst into bloom, the air suddenly fragrant with their intoxicating perfume, an...
05/09/2026

The lilacs here in New England have just burst into bloom, the air suddenly fragrant with their intoxicating perfume, and I found myself stepping outside the other evening with no real purpose other than to breathe it in, to stand there for a few quiet moments and take in something I know will only last for a short while.

There is something about lilac that always feels so full but fleeting, her arrival so generous and then gone almost as quickly. Standing there with that scent all around me, I could feel how much of this Spring season carries that same intensity, that same sense of fullness that asks to be noticed while it is here.

It brought me straight into the feeling of Beltane (sometimes known as May Day), into that lush turning of the year when everything is alive at once, when the land seems to exhale into bloom, and when gatherings once formed around the simple shared experience of being present to it.

I stayed there longer than I expected, moving from one cluster of blossoms to another, brushing my hands along them, letting the scent linger, aware of how rare it is to pause like that and give full attention to something so simple and so alive.

And in that moment, with the evening settling in and the air carrying that sweetness, it felt as though Spring had opened just a little wider, offering herself fully, asking only that I meet her there.

Kiss the Earth,
Jen

I often find myself imagining the hills of Ireland and Scotland on the night of Beltane, long before our modern world to...
05/08/2026

I often find myself imagining the hills of Ireland and Scotland on the night of Beltane, long before our modern world took shape…a time the land itself was the center of life, and people gathered at the threshold of summer with a reverence woven into daily existence.

Beltane marked the crossing into the bright half of the year, when the long stretch of cold gave way to warmth, and the fields, animals, and people stood at the beginning of a fertile and demanding season ahead. The name is often linked to the god Bel or Belenos, associated with light, healing, and fire, and his presence was honored through the lighting of the great flames that brought people together across distances.

These fires were prepared with care and became the living center of the celebration. From them, hearth fires were rekindled, carrying the blessing of the communal flame back into each home, linking the household to the land, and the land to the wider world.

Beltane night was both a night of devotion and celebration as people gathered and shared music, food, story, dance and revelry, marking the fullness of life returning to the earth. The Green Man, the May Queen, the weaving of the pole, and the circling dances all lived within this larger honoring of a world that was alive and deeply interconnected.

As time moved forward, Beltane found new expression in what became May Day, where the maypole, the crowning of a May Queen, and the gathering of community continued, echoing a lineage far older than written history. Many of these traditions continue today, as we decorate with bright ribbons and colors, leave baskets of flowers on doorknobs, picnic under the apple blossoms, or even fill our planters with the bright colors of Springtime.

How are you celebrating the energy of Beltane this year?

Kiss the earth,
Jen

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In old Europe, as dusk fell on the magical May night of Beltane, fires were lit on hilltops and in open fields that coul...
05/06/2026

In old Europe, as dusk fell on the magical May night of Beltane, fires were lit on hilltops and in open fields that could be seen for miles, calling people out of their homes and into the night air. Often all hearth fires were extinguished beforehand so that the entire community would relight their homes from a single source.

Cattle were driven between twin fires, their bodies passing through smoke believed to cleanse, protect, and bless them for the fertile months ahead. People too would walk the edges of the flames, or leap across them, laughing, daring, invoking vitality, health, and good fortune for the season to come. The air would have been thick with heat, smoke, with the scent of earth and green growth rising.

The Maypole stood at the center of many of these gatherings, a living symbol rising from the earth, wrapped in ribbons woven together through dance. The masculine and the feminine were forces embodied in land, in the very act of weaving life together.

This was a night when boundaries softened, when desire, fertility, and creativity were honored as part of the great turning of the world. It is said that many children conceived on Beltane were born at Imbolc, and in some places those born of this season carried names like Jack, echoing the Green Man himself, as though the vitality of the land had taken human form.

These ancient traditions remind us that life was never meant to be separate from celebration, nor from the sacred. The fires, the dancing, the union of forces, all of it was a way of participating in the fertility of the earth, of recognizing that we belong to these cycles, and that they move through us as surely as they move through the fields and forests.

Even now, if we listen closely, we can almost hear the crackle of those fires, the music rising, the laughter, the footsteps circling the pole, the sense that for one night, the world was fully alive and we were part of it.

Kiss the Earth,
Jen



05/05/2026

Due to rain expected tomorrow afternoon through late evening, our Beltane/Witchy Wednesday will be held THIS THURSDAY 5/7, 6:00-8:30 in Yvette's MAGICAL GARDENS, 218 Sugar Rd, Bolton.
Don your flower crown, come dance the Maypole, enjoy a flower feast, try your hand at homemade wildflower vinegar, receive a blessing from the sacred ritual fire, and celebrate with our fabulous Sisterhood!

There are a few spots left, and we'd love you to join us on this fine Spring evening! Registration is below. Hope to see you there!
🔥🌸🌼🌷💃

https://www.newenglandgoddesstemple.com/booking-calendar/witchy-wednesday-now-thur-may-7-6-8-30?referral=service_details_widget&timezone=America%2FNew_York

The May Queen and the Green ManThere are stories that were never written down in one place but lived instead in fields, ...
05/05/2026

The May Queen and the Green Man

There are stories that were never written down in one place but lived instead in fields, in villages, in the turning of the seasons, carried in song and memory. The May Queen and the Green Man belong to that kind of knowing.

In the old European countryside, as the land came into full bloom, a young woman would be chosen as the May Queen, crowned with flowers, dressed in white or in green, adorned with blossoms. Her presence represented the flowering Earth Herself, radiant, fertile, and alive with possibility. Alongside her was the Green Man, sometimes known as Jack in the Green, a man cloaked entirely in leaves and branches, moving through the village as though the forest itself had stepped into human form.

We can almost feel it if we imagine it closely enough, the music rising, the laughter, the scent of blossoms and fresh grass, ribbons winding around the Maypole as dancers weave patterns that mirror the interlacing of life itself, human and land, body and season, all of it moving together.

The May Queen is not simply a maiden, and the Green Man is not merely a figure of the wilderness. Together they hold an older story ~ one of union, of reciprocity, of the meeting between cultivated life and untamed growth, between what we tend and what we cannot control. Their presence reminds us that Spring is not only beautiful but fertile and wild.

These figures were meant to be lived, danced, laughed into being, year after year, as communities gathered to mark the fullness of life returning to the land. And even now, though the forms may have changed, something of them remains…in the way Beltane celebrations are returning across the world in both traditional and newfound ways, in the moments we feel drawn outside after a long cold Winter, in the way color and scent and warmth call us back into union with the living world.

Somewhere in the greening of the trees and the flowering of the fields, the May Queen still walks, and the Green Man still rises, and the story continues on…

Kiss the earth,
Jen

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