Summer is Coming
Beltane, or May Day has always held a special place in my heart, with its blooming flowers, festive ribbons, roaring bonfire, and joyous dancing rituals. Lying between Ostara, the spring equinox and Summer Solstice, it is a time of the year where I feel new connections to the fae folk and plant spirits.
Beltane originated as a Celtic festival celebrating Belenus, but is now widely celebrated to pay reverence to love and fertility.
Deities that can be honored during this time include:
- Aphrodite: Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation
- Artemis: Greek goddess of goddess of the hunt, the moon, and wild animals
- Bast: Egyptian goddess of protection, pleasure, and the bringer of good health
- Diana: Roman goddess of wild animals and the hunt
- Freyja: Norse goddess of love and fertility
- Freyr: Norse god of the land and fertility
- Pan: Roman & Greek god of shepherds, flocks, wild nature, and fertility
- The Horned God: Irish God represents masculine energy, nature, and the cycle of life and death
- Venus: Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory
Some traditional practices may include:
- Maypole (dancing around a color ribbon adorned pole)
- Planting flowers (inviting life back to the earth)
- Lighting bonfires (burning the old away and inviting the new into your life)
- Flower crowns (invite the faeries)
There are so many traditions we honor when we celebrate the beginning of the summer season. How do you honor Beltane?
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Be sure to download our “Enchantment of Beltane: A Guide too Celebrating May Day and the Start of Summer,” a 48 page pdf packed full of correspondences, recipes, celebrations, magick, and rituals. Print it out and use it year after year, personalizing it to your own practices as you go.
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