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🌸~Beltane~🌸

Hi everyone!

Beltane is right around the corner and I am here to give you some tips and information about this pagan holiday.

☀️What is Beltane and why do we celebrate?

Beltane, also called Fire Festival or Flower Festival, is celebrated on May 1st. Some people choose to celebrate it from April 30th to May 1st, some even extend it to May 2nd. This whole festival is about honoring the Mother, the Sun, the fire and the flowers. 

🔮Correspondences🔮

Goddesses: Flora, Danu, Luna, Gaia, Matka Gabia

Gods: Cernunnos, Pan, Frej, the Green Man

Altar decorations: Red, white and green candles, fresh flowers, small maypole, Fae statues, butterflies, growing plants, cauldrons of flowers, brooms

Foods: Dairy, Oatmeal cakes, cherries, bread, strawberries, green salads, smoothies

Drinks: Fruit/Wine punch, Milk & Honey, herbal tea, beer

Herbs: honeysuckle, cowslip, angelica, hawthorn, roses, rosemary, bluebells, daisies, lilac.

Incense: Jasmin, rose, sage, strawberry.

Colors: red & white (goddess and god), green, yellow, pink and brown.

Stones: Emerald, Sapphire, Rose Quartz, Amber

Animals: Cows, Lynx, Dove, Cat, Swan, Deers.

🌈How to celebrate:

Make a bouquet or posy of spring flowers and cast it into a stream, lake or river to bless the water spirits.

Keep an eye out for fairies and other nature spirits

Make a dish of fruits, berries and nuts, leave in the wood for the animals and fae folk to enjoy

Go for a walk

Meditate in your garden or at your balcony.

Dance around a bonfire.

Decorate your room/apartment/house with lots of flowers.

Have a wonderful Beltane everyone, be true, be you.

                                                                                      - witchspeaks

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Items to put on your altar for Beltane!

Baskets

Apples

Pomegranates

Peaces

Cherries

Mangoes

Oranges

Lemons

Limes

Cups and chalices

Antlers

Horns

Fish, don’t let it sit there for too long though!

Milk, can be either organic, store bought, or vegan!

Honey, can be either organic, store bought, or vegan!

Oats

Arrows

Swords

Daggers

Spring and summer flowers

Spring and summer tree barks

Rings

Amulets

Talismans

Emeralds

Pearls

Moonstones

Alexandrites

Basil

Mint

Rosemary

Thyme

If I missed any please feel free to add on!

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How to prepare for Beltane

My fellow lazy witches living in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s time to get ready for Beltane (May 1st). Here is a list of cute lil’ things you can do from this week onwards - just so we hurry up all together now.

- Eat/use breakfast cereals: we’re still celebrating the roman Ceres! Healthy: oatmeal / Gourmet: chocolate muesli / Gluten-free: corn flakes.

- Get out in the sun, pick wild flowers, make your ritual bouquet or floral wrap ♥ ‘Cause Floralia falls in between April & May. Let’s grab poppies!

- Cook with FRESH herbs, avoid dried ground stuff. You can save herb leftovers or extra leaves & branches for Beltane burning rituals. This is a good time for cooking and baking at home. Stop wasting money now, better save up for the summer madness… ;)

- Plan pamper/cozy nights + sip a good wine for the occasion (Sangria, Pinot Noir, Rosé, Lambrusco or Riesling). Other options: lemonade, herbal tea, milk, pale ale, fruit beer. Also eat strawberries, they’re in season!

- Light up cute tealights everywhere: on Beltane we honor fire and fertility.

- Dress light, flowy and colorful. R.i.p. tight underwear. Wear a brand new piece of jewelry, smile more often, wear a fruity or floral fragrance. 

- Clean your house, your room, your altar/corner. Declutter. Room spray season is officially open, so spritz the hell out of dem bottles. Add charged crystals to your sacred space or on your desk. Prefer warm colors/pastels.

- Write down a motivational phrase, make sure you’re very satisfied with how it looks on paper (yes, aesthetics do count here). Choose words that lift you up and boost your self-esteem. Read the phrase every morning, take a deep breath and smile. Even if it’s raining hell outside. :)

Hope this was inspiring for some!  ✿ ♥☆ ✿ xox

[lepuslunamgrimoire]

Beltane Masterpost

Time for another masterpost. Beltane is upon us, which means Summer is almost here! Beltane falls opposite Samhain on the Wheel of the Year, and while Samhain is about celebrating and respecting death, Beltane is all about celebrating life!! Like Samhain, it’s believed that the veil between the worlds is at its’ thinnest at this time. During this time it’s customary to burn ceremonial fires, do magic relating to or leave offerings for faeries. If you’re not sure what to get up to on Beltane, here’s some ideas:

Miscellaneous

Herbs Associated with Fire

Herbs Associated with the Sun

Herbs for Happiness

Hearth Fire Protection Spell

Fire Correspondence Chart**

Fire Correspondence Chart II**

Ideas for Celebrating Beltane**

Sabbat Soap

Sun Tarot Spell

Solar Cleansing Brew

Sun God Ointment

Beltane Crossing Over Tarot Spread

Baths

Fire Bath

Summer Cleansing Bath

Incense

Nine Woods Incense

Fire Incense

Sun Incense

Sun Incense II

Beltane Incense

Oils

Spring Time Oil

Beltane Oil

Beltane Oil II

Sabbat Oil

Sabbat Oil II

Sabbat Oil III

Sun Oil

Sun King Anointing Oil

Midsummer Faerie Oil

**Not from my blog

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Beltane Tips!

* Wear lots of green

* Have a bonfire and fill it with fragrant incense, flowers, and sacred woods

* Bake tiny colorful cookies (with flowers, if you can!) and offer them to your local fae

* The veil is the thinnest this time of year - the only other time it’s this thin is during Samhain. Venerate and honor the spirits, and guard against malicious ones with salt along your windowsills or doors

* Wash your face with the morning dew to fill yourself with beauty

* Eat sexually suggestive foods or aphrodisiacs

* Dance. Dance a LOT. Turn on some drum-heavy music and let loose. Do it alone in your room at night, if you have to. 

* Go talk to all your local plants and give them little offerings of water. Blessed water charged with a quartz crystal would be extra nice.

* Do a tarot reading for yourself (or have someone else do it for you). This is a wonderful time of year for divination!

* Buy flowers. Pick flowers. Wear flowers. BE FLOWERS.

* You don’t have to have sex to have a legitimate Beltane, but you can always show yourself some love if ya know what I mean *wink wink*

* This is a holiday of sensual pleasure. That doesn’t necessarily mean sex - it means really indulge your senses. Take a hot, luxurious bath. Dance until you work up a sweat. Eat foods that you love and crave. Smell the flowers, feel your bare feet in the grass, splash your face with fresh water. FEEL the world around you - the spirits are alive and active on Beltane! Engage your emotional, intuitive, sensual side and you might catch a glimpse of one or two.

* Reach out to friends you haven’t talked to in awhile. Strike up a friendly conversation. Celebrate friendship!

* Meditate with crystals that open your third-eye or specifically relate to the fairy or devic realms - chlorite phantom quartz, moss agate, rainforest jasper, green diopside, spirit quartz, azeztulite, most green crystals, prehnite, a rock you found someplace outdoors that feels charged with earth energy - you choose!

* Perform solitary spells for abundance, protection, fertility, romance, love, sex, and divination!

* Plant seeds and start a magickal garden. There are lots of plants you can grow indoors pretty easily that have magickal properties.

* Dedicate an altar to Flora, Cernunnos, Bes, Pan, Hera, etc - any deity you can think of who rules fertility, marriage, romance, and abundance! 

Hope you all have a wonderful Beltane!!!