Tags: Beltaine

• Beltaine Photos

  Took a while to get around to posting these, being on dial-up is a pain.

• Beltaine FAQ

  Beltaine

  Fire festival
  Date: April 30th – May 1st, or first Full Moon in Taurus. The Scottish tradition of PectiWita celebrates their Sabbat on May 15th. The astronomical date for Old Beltane is usually May 5.
  Pronunciation: “BELL-tayn”, “bell-tan”, “BELL-tain”, but also can be “BEEL-teen”, “BEEL-tawn-uh”, or “B’YAL-tinn”.
  Etymology: Beltane derives from the Irish Beáltaine or Scottish Gaelic Bealtuinn; both from Old Irish Beltene “bright fire” from belo-te(p)niâ), where belo- is allied to the English word bale (as in bale-fire), the Anglo-Saxon bael, and [...]

• Beltaine Ritual

  (Leader script, not the abberviated version for particpants. Without proper formatting because converting to make Wordpress happy is a pain and I’m tired)
  Processional In
  Building the Belfires
  Brooms Stand Guard
  Fire Blessing & Fire Dance
  Meditation
  Inviting Guardians
  Sacred Landscape
  Planting the World Tree
  Parting the Veil
  Lady at the Cross Roads
  Lord of the Gates
  Ancestors Join Us
  Flower Maiden & Greenman
  Beltaine Poems: Flower Maiden & Oak King
  Seed Blessing
  Honouring Danu & Bile
  Offerings
  Housle
  Open Floor to Group
  Oracle
  Farewell Summer Queen & Greenman
  Farewell Ancestors
  Closing the Veil
  Lowering the World Tree
  Sacred Landscape
  Meditation
  Removing Brooms
  Processional Out
   
  Building the Belfires
  v The [...]

• Update on Beltaine at Misty Acres

  Looks like we are going to have a good amount of people coming out.  Awesome!Between a vet bill for a horse and a vet bill for a dog we will not be roasting a pig, but a couple of chickens, wieners and some hamburgers instead.
  For vegetarians we will have roast potatoes, carrots, and other veggies.
  And probably some rice, along with what people bring.
  I did make room in my refrigerator.
  And plumbing will be cabin in the woods style lol
  One of the [...]

• Happy Beltaine Everyone

  This is the last you’ll see of me for a week I’d say.
  Cheers!

  I Love the Whole World

• Beltaine Info

  Here’s everything you should need to know:

  Click on the map for full size and to read directions

  Friday we will have an opening ceremony around 4 or 5, and the Bell Branch workshop will start around 6.
  Saturday we will start with games at noon followed by the Crowning of the May Queen and King. Then the ritual and Belfire dance around 4 or 5 and the feast after that.
  Sunday we will have a leftover lunch around noon, followed by a ritual [...]