🌹, I wanna do a mini ritual for Beltane, what do you do recommend?
Sorry if I saw this late! Today has already been wild as fuck for me even though we are all locked down.
I am going to do one soon myself! I guess what I should ask you is which elements do you resonate the most with?
For rituals I really love working with fire and candles. There is a lot of power they can command and even have the ability to shift the mood in the space. Plus I love anointing them and adding herbs and other toppings to the spell.
Otherwise working with the earth is great for Beltane cause it’s the point of the year where things are blooming/growing and it’s a celebration of fertility. If you are interested in growing food or even a plant you can start by sprouting seeds and charging them with your spell so that as you nurture them the reality you’d like to manifest will also bloom. If you don’t have the time or materials to grow anything or do that type of work, doing magic with a tree is fantastic. You can find a tree to ask for magical help. Trees can be really helpful and love connection (I mean connection is their whole being haha) and I find that often a tree will call to you when you are in need of help. You can exchange energy with them, do energy work to open up your heart energy pool and ask them to help with spell manifestation since they are like.. a giant living wand lol. I mean that’s where witches gets their wands from but going to the source some trees are happy to help. As a thanks I leave them moon water, fresh water, sing a song (I can’t stress enough how vibrational and energy based trees are they love good energy and music!) or leave positive energy to give to the tree. Some trees are great for different spells, you have like willow that is ruled by the moon and water that can help with emotional based things and shadow work. Oak is great for growth, prosperity and manifestation. Pine is very fiery and grounding but I find it also very paternal? I think that may be a very personal thing haha. Birch is super fiery but in another way. Where as Pine is more mature and grounding, Birch is excitable, flexible and has an energy to ignite (plus it’s bark is a great fire starter if you ever need some just pull off an already peeling piece. OHH and then for Beltane specifically THE tree would be Hawthorne. Here they are all blooming!! They are the tree of fairies and help with matters of love and unity. Hawthorne tea also helps with the heart’s physical health and energetic power. There are so many trees and magic behind them (plus the ones I listed I know through european lenses but there are magical trees all over the world in different communities so if you ever see a tree that catches your eye just google it and see what it is!) Plus setting up a ritual by a tree is nice and you can feel like a dryad haha.
Then there is water based magic like if you want to have a ritual bath which would be nice for Beltane with flower petals. Beltane is about fertility and unity and it can easily also be about love and self love or the energy around the heart. You can do a self-honoring love magic bath ritual! Speaking of water it’s been raining ALL TYPES of rain here and catching rain water on Beltane can be used for cleansing matters of the heart or helping with break up. (At one point it was also hailing!! And then a lot of sunshowers. Every type of rain has it’s own energy so you can collect that for spells and add some to your bath).
There is also Air magic like burning incense or making herb bundles to burn. If you have access to non-pesticided flower petals adding rose or tulip petals to a smoke bundle would be super nice and very aesthetic. In addition I find really setting the space for any celebration or ritual, the scents are so important. For me Beltane incense is rose, lavender, jasmine and violets. (I also collect random ass incense when I travel so I have this sakura one I got in Japan and this fairy mist + unicorn tears one I bought in Amsterdam in this fairy shop lol) It’s super smokey and floral (my room smells like fairies have been smoking in it). Other than incense you can use oils in an oil burner or just add a little bit of oil in a water spray (maybe with charged water!) to cleanse your air!
Ok I gave a lot of elements but nothing too specific haha. Sorry I have been in such a rambly mood and a bit scattered. Some ideas to focus the ritual around:
Self Love and Heart healing magic
Areas in your life that you’d like to bloom, nurture and grow
Attraction Magic! (May be really hard to do since things are getting wild in the world but it’s a good time for attracting things your way)
So last advice I’ll give is look at what you enjoy doing on the regular (whether it be cooking! Cause its fun to add food into ritual, dancing since ecstatic dance is def appropriate for this sabbat, making art etc.) think of something you’d like to focus on like a theme for the ritual, think of elements you enjoy working with (fire, air, earth, water are very basic and there are a lot more of course but its the first that came to mind), and then build that into a ritual! Important parts to a ritual are 1) setting the space (your room, burning incense, the altar). 2) getting yourself ready (whether it be a magical bath, a meditation or energy work, or having a feast to fuel you), 3) Doing the spell! 4) very optional but I like divining after to reflect or gain more clarity.
I hope this was insightful! Sorry it was so long haha.
