Celebrating Beltane
On May 1st the Wheel of the Year turns and we welcome Beltane, which celebrates the increasing fertility and vitality of the Earth. It represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer. Beltane is a fire festival, and this really potent energy ignites creativity and inspiration, and brings desires and dreams forth into action. This is a heart-opening, fire igniting, celebratory moment that invites us to recognise and celebrate love in all forms.
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals that has its roots in Celtic traditions. Today it’s honored by Pagans, Wiccans, Witches of all kinds, spiritual seekers and ALL nature-lovers who wish to honor the subtle shifts in Nature, and celebrate the turning of the seasons.
There are eight sacred festivals that makes up the Celtic Wheel of the Year. They each honor and celebrate the change of season and bring us into alignment with the sacred rhythm of Mother Nature.
As we surrender to the magic of Mother Nature and align with her rhythm, seasons and cycles we feel a deeper sense of harmony, balance and peace — for she awakens our true nature.
Nature isn’t just outside. Every seasonal shift and change is also happening within.
THE MAGIC OF BELTANE
Beltane is a Fire Festival. The word 'Beltane' originates from the Celtic God 'Bel', meaning 'the bright one' and the Gaelic word 'teine' meaning fire.
Together they make 'Bright Fire'.
We are now about halfway between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, and Beltane celebrates the return of light and warmth as spring will soon begin to turn into summer.
This is such a joyful time of the year, marking the increasing fertility and vitality of the land as we see greenery returning and beautiful flowers blooming.
This really potent energy ignites creativity and inspiration, and brings desires and dreams forth into action.
Nature is becoming more fertile and lush. The sun is heating up the soil and it’s now getting warmer. Everything is coming to life around us, and also within us.
We are shaking off any old ways that we have cleared over the winter, but may still linger in our field.
Mother Earth is igniting her fire, and she is inviting us to do the same. How exciting!
This fire becomes a powerful purifier, and clears away what is outdated and ready to go.
There is such a wonderful uprising all around, and as the flowers are rising up to be seen, they are inviting us to do the same.
Trees, flowers and plants are blooming. Animals are coming out of their winter sleep to play. Nature is coming alive and we can feel it within and without.
What is ready to bloom in you?
How are you called to come out to play, to be seen and to show who you are in your full expression?
Oh Goddess, what a wonderful time of year this is, so full of joy, vitality, aliveness, courage and creativity.
This is a perfect time to tune in with what lights you up, make you come alive, bring you joy and fill your entire being with wild aliveness and excitement.
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What lights you up?
What are you called to create?
What is rising in you?
What brings you the most JOY?
What fills you with passion?
What makes you come alive?
What inspires you?
What have you been nurturing over the winter months that are now ready to bloom?
What do you sense is time for you to share now?
Is there a new version of you that coming out and rising up?
How are you called to step up and be seen in the truth of who you are?
What is now being cleared away in the fires of Beltane?
Who ( the new version of you) is rising from the ashes…..?
What new adventures are opening?
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Ohh Beltane. What a time of magic this is….
This is a brilliant moment in the Wheel of the Year to bring ideas and hopes into action.
The time is now to DREAM BIG! And go of it! Declare it. Open to it. Say it. Mean it!!
Have some fun..and celebrate the magic that is life.. and the magic that is YOU!
Open to the endless flow of possibilities and new opportunities— and say YES to it all!
Can you feel how you have changed? How you have grown? How you are different?
A LOVE CELEBRATION & ACTIVATION
Beltane invites us to keep our heart open and celebrate the love that we are…letting it shine from our being and light up the world around us.
This is a heart-opening, fire igniting, celebratory moment in time that invites us to recognise and celebrate love in all forms. Love is everywhere and love is who we are!!
Ohh now we DANCE and let the negativity, doubt, old ways and old stories that are just not working for us anymore fall away.
Beltane also has a quality of sensuality, reminding us to connect with our physical bodies and embrace the miracle that is our sexual energy.
Beltane honors Life. It represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer. Earth energies are now at their strongest and most active. All of life is bursting with potent fertility and at this point in the Wheel of the Year, the potential becomes conception.
What a creative, fiery and potent time indeed.
The sexuality of life and the Earth is at its peak. Nature is sexual, of course! We are living in a sexual, abundant, delicous world.
Abundant fertility, on all levels, is the central theme of Beltane.
Other themes of Beltane include sacred union, beauty, sensuality, creativity, courage and wild aliveness.
SACRED SEXUALITY, EROTIC INNOCENCE AND PLAYFULLNESS
Beltane invites you to tune into your sensuality and sexual flow.
Your sexual energy is the energy of love… Woahhhh how sacred, beautiful and the pure essence of LIFE itself!!
Expressing your sexual energy is expressing your Divinity. As you connect with your body and your sacred sexuality you ignite your truth as a Being of Light and a vessel for the most pure cosmic energies — A channel for Love.
Nature is orgasmic, the entire Universe is. And so are you.
Honor your orgasmic energy, and let this be a way of life.
As you embrace your erotic innocence, purity and aliveness you start to feel a deeper awakening of The Goddess.
Beltane is a beautiful time to celebrate yourself as a sexual being and free yourself from shame, guilt and fear of expressing your beautiful and natural sensuality.
We come alive through pleasure. Sexual energy is life force energy, and it’s our creative energy. There is no separation here, and you came here to experience yourself as a sexual, creative being that is ALIVE!
Sexual energy is the gateway to higher consciousness. So ascension is then more about going down, connecting with the body and with the Earth, rather than it’s going up.
As you fully plant yourself here, you will naturally expand in your light, be able to receive more light, and most importantly, be able to anchor it ground it, live it and express it.
Then you naturally begin to evolve, rise up into higher states to consciousness and Sovereign awareness. You are able to embody your pure Divine Light and express it in this human form.
Woahhh!!! This is magic!!
Nothing is possible without a deep connection to yourself, your body, your sexual energy— and the Earth. From here an inner tantric state emerges that will become a conscious state of being. This tantra require no partner, it is you with you- your inner Feminine and Masculine in Sacred Union and a blissful inner reality of love— a state of Oneness that also opens the One Heart.
Pleasure, sensuality, sexual ecstacy, erotic innocence and expression of desire is the most sacred and miraculous things about being human on Earth.
The Maiden Goddess has reached her fullness. She is dancing in her natural joy and sprinkling her sacred magic all around. She is laughing in delight and this is felt by all.
The Maiden Goddess / May Queen and the May King / Green Man are important symbols of Beltane representing the Sacred Marriage (Heiros Gamos) and the union of Earth and Sky.
I love making a vibrant and colourful Beltane altar, and I invite you to do the same. Green, Red, White, Yellow and Orange are strong colours now, but add any beautiful colours that you love and just have fun with this!
Two of my favourite essential oils for this time is Bergamot and Jasmine. You can read more about Bergamot here, and Jasmine here.
Enjoy this time!
I send you love and many blessings and wish you a Happy Beltane Day— and season!
In love and beauty,
Marita