Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Let the Spiral Turn and Turn . . .

. . . Wind will blow and fire will burn.
Water flows upon the earth,
As we dance from death to birth.

Midwinter, the longest night, falls at the time when the sun is farthest from the earth. . . . Like many winter festivals, the Winter Solstice is a time of lights and candles, of bread-baking and gift-giving as we await the birth of the sun. We rise before dawn on Solstice day to sing up the sun and welcome the new light.

– Starhawk
Excerpted from The Pagan Book of Living and Dying

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts: Winter Solstice | Sol Invictus | Running Hare VI

Related Off-site Link: The Magical History of Yule, the Pagan Winter Solstice Celebration – The Huffington Post (December 20, 2016).

In the Arena

See also the previous posts:
• In the Arena
• In the Arena II
• In the Arena III
• In the Arena IV
• Wrestling: "The Heterosexually Acceptable Form of Homosexual Foreplay"
• The Domain of Eros
• Olympic Male Beauty
• Olympic Male Beauty II
• Ball[s] Sports

Autumn Hare IV

See also the previous posts: Autumn Hare (2008) | In Autumn Snow | Song in Autumn | Autumn Hare (2011) | Autumn Hare II | Autumn Hare III | Autumn Beauty

Image: "Autumn Hare" by R. Miles.

A Means of Making Contact

The penis is a means of making contact, literally "reaching out" for the other, not to hurt or invade, but to pleasure and delight – mutually! . . . Not just me, and not just the other, but both simultaneously. Is that not an ideal metaphor for what all human relationships should be?

– Source

See also the previous posts:
Not a Weapon or a Mere Tool | Body and Soul | Phallus | Penis | Hard | Soft