For our Beltaine Celebration this year, we began with a walk in the woods to see the spring ephemerals, such as trilliums, jack-in-the-pulpits, and wild geraniums. (You can search this site to see pictures of our woods at this time of year!) We drove around to the back side of the property to hike in from the lane off the dirt road, as we don't currently have access from the house side. the SE stone in ...
Saturday, May 17th at 3pm Hi everyone! Happy Beltaine! Last year I began our Beltaine ceremony with the words: "In the center burn the fires of Beltaine. Man and Woman: Goddess and God: Stars and Earth: each in each one of us." This is what Beltaine is all about... the alchemical wedding of opposites, in which we merge from within the center of ourselves the opposite forces, thus giving us the ability of inspired creation - just ...
It was a windy chilly Beltaine celebration, but lots of fun too! Because of the wind, we did have to keep the fires small, yet walking between the fires felt great as we entered the season of light, warmth, and growth together in community. The Circle Opening Prayer Calling Peace to the Quarters Blessing with Water Lighting the fires Fires are lit ...
https://youtube.com/shorts/-QwDcmgG1wU?feature=share A snippet of the Maypole dance at our Beltane 2024 celebration. 💞💜💞💜💞💜💞💜💞💜
Thank you to Brennah for gathering the nine sacred woods which we will light our Beltaine fires with this Saturday. It's going to be magical! Beltaine Celebration: Saturday the 11th at 2:00 pm Oak Aronia Hazel Spruce Ash Cottonwood Willow Alder Hawthorne
Our wonderful gathering today started with an excellent talk on Working with the Land Spirits by Sarenth Odinsson, and concluded with a Maypole Dance and potluck/bonfire. I thought you might enjoy some pictures. Thank you to Raven and Doug for taking such great ones! (Since we all danced together, we didn't have anyone to take pictures of the actual dance ❤️) And a big thank you to Alissa for coming early to help finish assembling the Maypole! ...