Exploring the Energy of Beltane
Blossoming. Desire. Senses. Delight. Bliss.
Flourish. Possibility. Creation. Brightness. Play.
Elementals. Magick. Passion. Fire.
Beltane: The Season of Becoming
Welcome movement from bud into flower, transitional becoming, maturation from child to adolescent, expansion from essence into embodiment.
This season of the Southeast, beginning of Summer, marked by the gateway of Beltane, invites us into a new seasonal altar, a deepened sit spot with activating our senses, new herbs and rituals, honoring adolescence rites of passage, expressing ourselves wildly, authentically, sensually while we dance, play, sing, swim, move the sacred life force within us and celebrate our creative power!
These energies rise like thermals underneath the birds. They ride upon these invisible currents, and they work with them to fly, to coast, to soar, to go higher, to come back down to the earth, to move through space, to move through spirit, to move through consciousness.
Let's weave these ancient energies and apply them to our modern-day experience, and receive these invitations to enliven them as our life experience. In this article, you can find the Herbs of Beltane, a seasonal recipe, and a ritual to deepen the medicine of this holiday. To learn more about this holy day, and walk the wheel with me, access my instant download course, Wheel Walkers.
May these rhythms, recipes and rituals craft a doorway for deep reclamation and remembrance of who you truly are. Blessings.
The Herbs of Beltane
Lilac
Thyme
Marigolds
Frankincense
Ivy
Primrose
Hawthorn
Roses
Honeysuckle
Rosemary
Learn more about the herbs of Beltane in Wheel Walkers!
Beltane Ritual
Courting the Inner Beloved
Set a ritual of a consistent date with ourselves, whatever that looks like – to go out, to tend to ourselves at home, to do a sensual practice with strawberries by candlelight, to be with what is your pleasure and provide that for yourself. It’s this wild courtship, maybe it’s through dance. Maybe it’s to go shout from a mountaintop, maybe it’s to craft something. This time of year is also powerful for weaving.
This is an opportunity to connect with our soul. Coming to know this inner beloved requires us, invites us, to follow these longings, these allurements. What lures us forth? What are our desires? We move into a place of intimacy within ourselves that we can continue to listen and glean and learn more about who we are in these profound depths to experience the sense of wholeness and completion that is not dependent on another. This relating to the inner beloved and creating this practice of meeting our selves at that depth is rich. We letting ourselves fall in love again with the world, with who we are, to take your inner beloved out on a date as we’ve activated this presence.
To craft this experience, adorn yourself and dress up as if you were meeting another in the flesh. This is also a wonderful practice if you are saying yes to calling in sacred relationship with another. To connect so deeply with the inner beloved and to tend to ourselves in this particular way. How we would dress, a ritual bathing, to set up the space. Maybe it’s a picnic, to take ourselves in the experiences that we would like to experience with another, and as we gift it to ourselves first, and experience that sacred union within our own being, it begins to outpicture within our life.
We can honor ourselves through art, poetry, dance, love letters. Writing yourself a love letter. Write your inner beloved a love letter. Let yourself unify and merge with this depth of this one knowing that this relationship with ourselves is absolutely sacred and can never be lost, can never be taken away.
It’s an important activation of a deeper space of who we truly are that again isn’t externally reliant.
Beltane Recipe
Marigold Custard
From Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, by Scott Cunningham
Ingredients
2 cups milk
1 cup un sprayed marigold petals
1/4 tsp. salt
3 Tbsp. sugar
1 to 2 inch piece vanilla bean
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1/8 tsp. allspice
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. rose water
Whipped cream
Instructions
Using a clean mortar and pestal reserved for cooking purposes, pound marigold petals. Or, crush with a spoon.
Mix the salt sugar and spices together.
Scald milk with the marigolds and the vanilla bean.
Remove the vanilla bean and add the egg yolks and dry ingredients.
Cook on low heat. When the mixture coats a spoon, add rose water and cool.
Top with whipped cream.
Garnish with fresh marigold petals.