Beltane 2024 marked my 51st year as an Initiate of the Craft, and the Beltane Festival always has a special place in my heart.

Raven and I recently spent a week in Rhode Island, visiting Trad family and friends. Our trip was panned so that we would be there for the Beltane celebrations.

Over the week, we rested, visited, and went to the ocean on the opposite coast from where we live. The Atlantic is a very different ocean that the Pacific, especially at our latitude here in Washington – and likewise in Rhode Island.

Here, our beaches are rocky, with little sand. There, much sand, like the beaches of California. It was good for both of us, and very rejuvenating as well.

Sadly, we only had the week, but it reinforced our desire to move from where we have lived since 1987 and “go home” to where our Tradition is more centrally based. We’ve been the outliers for most of our time within the N.E.C.T.W., and we miss the “family connections” we get back there.

We had originally thought we would have been relocated by now, but there were things that took place which have delayed the move (minor things, like the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire country going into shutdown/lockdown for an extended period, plus Raven changing jobs in the middle of the Pandemic. Yeah, “little things”.)

Soon.

But when is it soon?

Soon, child. Patience.