Celebrating May Day & Beltane
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Today, May 1st, is the traditional day that Beltane, also known as May Day is celebrated on. Beltane is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point falling between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. The exact point falls around May 4 or 5 each year. In the northern hemisphere, Beltane marks the starting point of the turn toward summer.
Depending on where you live the flowers begin their yearly blooming cycle as the Goddess Flora wakes up and spreads her beauty.
This is the time to bask in the abundant beauty of this point of the seasonal cycle and celebrate the pure pleasure of being alive. Enjoy being outside, and give thanks to the union of Earth and the Solar Fire of the Sun, which bring us the growing cycle. Connect to the flowers and their power to uplift your life in this window.
The Wheel of the Year points make a great time to tune into your creations. Beltane marks the time when the energy begins to swell to ripeness so check on your intentions from Winter Solstice. How is their growth progressing? Is there anything they need in order to be more fertile?
The next few days create a great window to tune into ways you can bring more beauty, pleasure, and abundance into your life.
We would love to hear your comments about celebrating this portion of the growing cycle in the northern hemisphere or about how you work with it in the southern hemisphere.
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I Love this time of year. The energy is so full. The blooms so vibrant. I use this time to regroup and direct my focuse more clearly. With every thing in nature regenerating I cant help but want to do it as well.
Beautiful Lisa, thanks.
Today I woke with specific plans and a timeline. The first thing was shopping for my mother–but that took almost two hours and blew my timeline out of the realm of possibility! Then I went to my mother’s and it was going to be a quick in and out type of thing, but I ended up staying 4 1/2 hours! Oh no, I thought, now I will never finish what I had planned to do today. (Which was important stuff–I’m working on my Master’s Degree and have 1 paper due two weeks ago and 2 more due on May 10th.) Finally I get home. Do I sit right down and address the issue of my papers? Noooo. . . I decided to plant flowers and trim a bush and plant some seeds. Then I had to marvel that the bulbs I had planted were actually coming threw the earth. And then I needed to attend to my house plants. It felt wonderful to dig in the dirt, to get muddy and wet as I crumbled the earth between my fingers. My hands, usually somewhat crippled by arthritis, worked beautifully and I reveled in the dirt smell and the worms and my friendly hummingbird who came by to say hi and watch for a while. Even my cats sat in the window to see what was happening and they cooed their approval. My papers will get done. But today, May Day, the earth and the plants and the flowers were calling to me. May they flourish for the healing that they brought to me today!
Kathy, so happy to know your hands were working beautifully in the sweet Earth today. Blessings, Lisa
Lisa,
Thank you for your work with Mother Earth and the reminder of how important May Day is. Although I didn’t remember May 1st as May Day specifically, my body sure knew something was changing in my environment. The flowers on my patio called to me as they inched their way through to meet the sunlight. Their lush, vibrant colors decorating the landscape and bringing me much happiness. Even the desert (here in California) is sprouting beautiful poppies. It is indeed a time of celebration and beauty.
Thank you for keeping me in touch.
Denise Lampron
Thanks dear Denise. So glad your flowers are calling to you! Blessings, Lisa