Beltane is a fire festival celebrated mid-day April 31st and goes on until midnight on May the 1st.
It is a prime time for love, lust, fertility, abundance, success and revelry. Dancing around a bonfire naked is a classic Beltane move!
Beltane marks the most fertile and energetic time between early spring and mid-summer. Now is a time to consider the “seeds” you are planting for the coming year. It is a time to think about the coming summer and offer blessings and protections.
Earth is coming alive with fertile energy, it is a powerful time to celebrate the fertility deep rooted in all life. Beltane is a time to acknowledge all the pleasures in being alive. It’s the perfect time to breed, plant and create.
Nature is bursting. The birds are building nests, animals are breeding and love is in the air. Beltane honors life and is a celebration of passion and putting your plans into action.
Beltane is a festival of life, love and fertility.
This is the perfect time to set some intentions, breathe into your own magic and remember you have the power to plant, grow and create, just like the earth does.
How to Celebrate Beltane
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What seeds are you planting?
How can you apply energy to this?
How can you nourish this?
The potential outcome.
Reconnect with Nature. As the world around us bursts into life and color, we are invited to embrace our connection to the rhythms and cycles of this planet.
Celebrate your body and honour you sexuality.
Have a Bonfire. Fire represents light. It illuminates and purifies. Use fire to protect, transform and release.
Gather Flowers and give thanks to Mother Nature for her blessings.
Wear a garland of flowers in your hair.
Dress in green – The color green symbolizes growth and birth.
Take a ritual bath – Add candles, crystals, bath salts, and essential oil to the the water and cleanse away the grime of winter, and be ready to embrace the fertile season.
Celebrate with a feast of delicious food.
What ever you choose to do to recognize Beltane will be perfect. This is a time to celebrate the season and bring all of the elements together. Celebrate your sensual side. Get lucky! Be alive and grow.
The new moon symbolizes a blank slate. This is the perfect time to set intentions. What do you want to manifest? Take a moment to visualize your goals clearly, write them down, or create a vision board. The key here is focus—plant the seed of your desires and trust the process.
The New Moon is a great time to check in with yourself and take stock of what changes you’d like to make.
It is a time of new beginnings.
Embrace new projects, ideas, plans, thoughts, relationships and the changes you wish to invite into your life.
The New Moon is a moment to conjure what seems out of reach, and creating the vision is the first step to making it a reality.
It is believed that as the moon grows, that your intention or goal will grow too.
Time to reconnect with your spirit, your source energy. Plant the seed of what you want to grow in your life.
Making a wish, setting an intention, a promise, or a vow is a common custom.
Let your imagination run wild and dream big. Tap into your intuition and set your intentions to bring your visions to life.
Feel the power within you growing. Trust yourself and follow your instincts knowing that you are doing important work.
Bless the new opportunities and new beginnings that are available to you now. Harness this powerful new energy.
The new moon offers you a chance to reflect, clarify your big-picture visions, and bolster your self-awareness as well as your faith in yourself.
Ask yourself this. What new seeds are beginning to sprout? How can I nurture these new opportunities?