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Beltane
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Time: April 30, 2014 all day
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Event Type: holiday, festival, time
Organized By: Practitioners World wide
Latest Activity: May 2, 2014
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May Day celebrations go back hundreds of years in agricultural societies. Beltane, celebrated on May 1, is one of the fire festivals, and is a day of flowers, fertility, dancing, bonfires and general merrymaking. Learn about the history of Beltane, as well as some fun crafts, fire-focused rituals, and other celebrations of the season.
As spring arrives, the birds begin nesting and returning to our lives.
Fertility of the soil is one of the main focuses at Beltane, and cultures have performed fertility rites for thousands of year each spring.
Beltane celebrates the fertility of spring and the greening of the earth. When is Beltane 2009?
May 1 is known as May Day to many people, but for a lot of Practitioners it's Beltane. It's a day to celebrate fertility, fire, and abundance.
Beltane has been celebrated for centuries among agricultural societies -- it's the beginning of May, the sign that summer is just around the corner. This fire festival has its roots in fertility rituals that can be traced back to Greco-Roman religions.
Okay, so we know that Beltane is a fertility festival……..
The tradition of the Maypole Dance has been around for a long time -- it's a celebration of the fertility of the season.
Beltane is a time of fire and fertility. Combine the passion of a roaring bonfire with the love of the May Queen and the God of the Forest.
Some parents may not be comfortable with the phallic fertility images so often found at Beltane.
When spring arrives, we can see the fertility of the earth in full bloom. For many traditions, this brings the opportunity to celebrate the sacred feminine energy of the universe
Long before the medieval peasantry of the British Isles erected their Maypoles, the ancient Romans were partying hard in honor of Flora, their spring fertility goddess. She had her very own festival, called Floralia, and there was all kinds of merrymaking going on!
In rural English villages, Morris dancing and Mummer's plays are popular around the Beltane season.
Beltane has been a time of fertility celebration for thousands of years, in innumerable cultures. .
There are a lot of myths and folklore surrounding May Day, or Beltane
Some people believe that the Fae are most active around the time of Beltane
In some Practitioner traditions, the battle for dominance is not between an Oak King and a Holly King, but in fact between the May Queen and the Queen of Winter. Learn about the cycle of the triple goddess, and her aspects as Maiden, Mother, and Crone.
During the nineteenth century, it became popular to send someone a message using only flowers. Each one had its own symbolism, so the type of flower you sent was very important.
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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 18, 2012 at 8:34am
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Beltane
THE FIFTH SABBAT OF THE WHEEL is Beltane, celebrated on May 1st.
Beltane is a festival of sexuality and fertility. The Maypole, central to most Beltane rites, signifies the phallus of the God while the wreath atop the pole signifies the vagina of the Goddess. The Maypole is traditionally cut by the men, and the men dig the hole in which it is placed. The women fill the hole with dirt and construct the wreaths for the Maypole and for their own heads. As the ribbons are woven during the dance, the wreath slowly lowers and so the Divine Marriage is symbolically consummated.
The God is now the Young Phallic Lord. He has become the rutting consort of the Goddess and on Beltane, they mate for the first union of the year. It is at this time that the Goddess becomes pregnant with the new Sun King to whom she will give birth to on the Winter Solstice.
Beltane signifies a time of burgeoning growth, passion, and strength for us. It is a time to explore our own sexuality (whatever the focus we may have---heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or autosexual) and it is a time to play and revel in the majick as spring turns into summer.
Other traditional activities on Beltane include jumping the Bale fire, drinking May wine punch made with sweet woodruff and strawberries, dancing, games, making flower wreaths, and face painting.
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Beltaine Cauldron Dance Ritual
You will need a cauldron with a lit candle in center.
Oak, Yew or Green leaf's and Flowers to decorate the altar.
Place a tape besides the cauldron.
For 'Cakes' you will need a bowl of nuts.Light the taper from the Bel-Fire Cauldron.
Dance around the cauldron carrying the taper and chanting:
I call unto the magickal Green,
By the Lord and Lady now to be seen.
For in this dance I conjure summer in,
Warming the earth as the wheel spins.
Come to me now by words and mouth,
As I call to thee North, East, West and South.Enjoy the dance and the energy as long as desired.
When finished blow out the taper and lay it beside the cauldron.
Jump the cauldron to release the power within.
Blessed be.Lady Abigail
Copyright © 04282000editing note--place a "taper" as in a taper candle beside the cauldron!
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Beltane
Beltane Beltane (May 1) celebrates the sacred marriage of the Goddess and God, from whose union will be born the autumn harvest. Almost every Beltane custom in some way symbolizes this marriage. The practice of filling May baskets with symbols of fertility, such as eggs or nuts, is representative of their joining. The custom of weaving the May pole with long strands of colored ribbon is another. The pole represents the phallus of the God, which penetrates the ribbons that make up the birth canal of the Goddess. This act also symbolizes the transformation of the virgin Goddess into her mother form.Sacred TimeGoing A-Maying & Bringing in the May -- Merry-making and Nature communion. Midpoint between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. In Pagan Rome, Floralia, from April 27-May 3 was the festival of the Flower Goddess Flora and the flowering of Springtime. On May 1, offerings were made to Bona Dea (as Mother Earth), the Lares (household guardian spirits), and Maia (Goddess of Increase) from whom May gets its holiday for the masses, in the twentieth century, May Day has been a workers' holiday in many places. Some say that Mother's Day, in the USA, Mexico, and elsewhere has Pagan roots.MaypoleForms include pole, tree, bush, cross; communal or household; permanent or annual. In Germany, Fir tree was cut on May Eve by young unmarried men, branches removed, decorated, put up in village square, & guarded all night until dance occurred on May Day. In England, permanent Maypoles were erected on village greens In some villages, there also were smaller Maypoles in the yards of households. Maypole ribbon dances, with two circles interweaving; around decorated bush/tree, clockwise circle dances.Flowers & GreenwoodGathering and exchange of Flowers and Greens on May Eve, pre-dawn May Day, Beltane. Decorating homes, barns, and other buildings with Green budding branches, including Hawthorn. Making and wearing of garland wreaths of Flowers and/or Greens. May Baskets were given or placed secretly on doorsteps to friends, shut-ins, lovers, others. May Bowl was punch (wine or non-alcoholic) made of Sweet Woodruff blossoms.Beltane FiresTraditionally, sacred woods kindled by spark from flint or by friction -- in Irish Gaelic, the Beltane Fire has been called teine eigin (fire from rubbing sticks). Jump over the Beltane Fire, move through it, or dance clockwise around it. Livestock was driven through it or between two fires for purification and fertility blessings. In ancient times Druid priests kindled it at sacred places; later times, Christian priests kindled it in fields near the church after performing a Christian church service. Rowan twigs were carried around the fire three times, then hung over hearths to bless homes. In the past, Beltane community fire purification customs included symbolic sacrifice of effigy knobs on the Beltane Cake (of barley) to the fire, or, in medieval times, mock sacrifice of Beltane Carline (Hag) who received blackened piece of Beltane Cake; Maypoles in Spain were each topped with a male effigy which was later burned. Contemporary Pagans burn sacred wood and dried herbs as offerings in their Beltane fires.
May WatersRolling in May Eve dew or washing face in pre-dawn May Day dew for health, luck, beauty. Getting head and hair wet in Beltane rain to bless the head. Blessing springs, ponds, other sacred waters with flowers, garlands, ribbons, other offerings. * Collecting sacred waters and scrying in sacred springs, wells, ponds, other waters.
Sacred Union & FertilityUnion with the Land focus, often with actual mating outside on the Land to bless fields, herds, home. May Queen (May Bride) as personification of the Earth Goddess and Goddesses of Fertility. May King (May Groom) as personification of Vegetation God, Jack-in-Green -- often covered in green leav
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BELTANE RITUAL
CAST THE CIRCLE
CHANT TO ENTER THE CIRCLEENTER THE CIRCLE
WITH NAUGHT
THAT'S BANE
CHANTING SOFT
THE GODDESS NAME
COME IN LOVE
AND COME IN PEACE
BLESSINGS 'TIL
THE MAGICKS CEASE.CHANT:
OH GREAT QUEEN OF
THE HEAVENS
AND OF EARTH
JEWEL OF THE NIGHT
RULER OF THE NIGHT
SPIRITS WILD,
MOTHER OF WOMAN ,
MAN AND CHILD.WE BESEECH THEE!!!!!!
CHANT:
OH GREAT FATHER
KING OF THE HEAVENS
AND LIGHT OF DAY
RULER OF FOREST GLEN
MASTER OF BEAST, CHILD
WOMEN AND MEN.WE BESEECH THEE!!!!
RITUAL:
FROM YOUR UNION
SPRANG FORTH ALL
CREATION.
NEW LIFE WILL ABOUND
ACROSS EARTH'S
CARPET AND IN HER
DARK AND LIGHT
RECESSES ALIKE
THE VOICE OF THE
FOUR WINDS SHALL
CALL OUT IN CELEBRATION
OF YOUR YOKING AND SHALL
BLOW JOY AND FRUITFULLNESS
OVER THE FIELDS AND VALLEYS OT
THE EARTH.
LET ALL REJOICE WITH YOU
IN YOUR PASSION.
HAIL GREAT ONES!!
HAIL MOTHER!!
HAIL FATHER!!
HAIL DUEL POWERS OF
THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!ALL MAGICK SHOULD BE DONE AT THIS TIME.
DISMISSAL CHANT:
LEAVE THE CIRCLE
AS YOU CAME .
CHANTING SOFT
THE GODDESS NAME
GO IN LOVE AND
GO IN PEACE
BLESSINGS UNTIL
NEXT WE MEET.YOU SHOULD NOW CLOSE THE CIRCLE
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Beltane
Beltane, or Bealtaine (Celtic), Mayday, Walburgal (Teutonic), Rudemas
(Mexican Craft), Festival of Tana (Strega) occurs on May 1st, falling
opposite Samhain in the wheel of the year. Beltane marks the start of
summer, and is a time for feasting, merry-making, celebration, and
joy.It is a time to look outward and forward to the future, and to
prepare for the warm summer months ahead. It is also a time for love
and union, representing the Divine Union of the Goddess and the God.The rituals may be quite erotic in nature, symbolizing the union of
deity and of the newly impregnated Goddess. It is another fertility
Sabbat, and the Great Rite may also be a part of the ritual.Dancing around the Maypole may be a part of the festivities. The
original Maypole was a pine tree, which had been previously
decorated for Yule.It was then stripped of all but its uppermost branches, creating a
phallic symbol. It was strung with white ribbons (symbolizing the
Goddess) and red ribbons (symbolizing the God).Beltane is thought by Wiccans to be derived from a word meaning
"balefire".It is traditional to take home a smoldering piece of the Beltane
bonfire to bring blessings to your home during the coming summer
months. It is also believed that the smoke from a Beltane bonfire is
the best to use for ritual purification of tools, jewelry, etc.If you do your own ritual, why not create a small fire you bless and
take a bit of the sacred ash or flame into your home with you? My
favoutire blessing for a fire is:I will kindle this fire under the eyes of the Tuatha De Danann under
the eyes of Brigit daughter of the Dagda, under the eyes of Aedh the
bright one. Without fear, jealousy or malice of any kind to anyone
under the sun, but with the light of the Goddess to protect me.Goddess of the sun, kindle within me a fire of generosity and love
to all:To my friends, my kindred, my foes and kindle within me a fire of
bravery,eloquence and generosity Of truth, strength and wealth, of
beauty, charm and grace, so that I may inspire with my words. May
this fire be blessed in the eyes of the Ancient but ever-present
Gods.
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