Beltane (pronounced bielt-n), also known as May Day or Rodmas, it's time for the sacred meeting of the Goddess and God, celebration of the ecstasy of love that fills the earth with the gems of life. The energies of light and life are manifested in their most joyful and triumphant.
is the time when we celebrate the return of summer and the fertility period of picnics and outdoor parties.
In this time of year, usually we feel physically well: our biorhythms have adapted to the increased daylight hours and we left behind the critical moments of the late winter and early spring. So it's the right time to operate, to carry to fruition the things we set out to accomplish. Even psychologically
our thoughts are turning out. This seasonal
extroversion makes the time is propitious for new loves and nuove amicizie, come anche al rafforzamento delle relazioni già esistenti.
C'è occasione di passare più tempo con gli altri ed è anche tempo di stimolare la nostra creatività e la nostra fertilità interiore.
Beltane (fuoco luminoso) o Primo di Maggio è il giorno con cui incomincia la fase estiva delle attività legate alla terra e, una volta, era il momento in cui il bestiame veniva portato ai pascoli dopo lo svernamento e la benedizione dei falò accesi: i fuochi di Beltane.
"Quando la Ruota incomincia a girare comincino i fuochi di Beltain a bruciare”
Beltane celebra l’amore, l’attrazione, il corteggiamento, l’unione, e tutti i piccoli e grandi instinctual wishes that we call "fever" or "love" in the spring.
In rural villages a nice young couple elected to represent the King and Queen of May. During the festival all danced around a pole (Maypole) firmly planted on the ground in the middle of a clearing, which rose into the sky, a symbol of vitality and fertility pole of God
Then they gathered the flowers and spent nights together under the stars in the woods ...
Beltane is the time of milk and honey, the best time of all dedicated to the pleasure. After the awakening spring bodies are full of energy like we were in the wee hours of the imaginary wheel of the Year: the best time to blossom and flourish desire and satisfaction.
As the pile of May and the horns represent the God, the cow bee are symbols of the Goddess for the feast of Beltane.
The large number of cows to produce milk in quantity for the calf and the people reflects the wonder and amazement for breastfeeding mothers.
CELEBRATIONS
We can celebrate this holiday in different ways ... according to the Nordic traditions we can plant a pole in May in a field and dancing with our friends.
Or we can weave and hang garlands of flowers around a tree.
Rodmas Another traditional activity is to attack red ribbons (the color of passion) to hawthorn bushes to propitiate love, luck or healing.
two small fires can turn on and switch among them to cleanse, feeling their energy to fill our bodies when we pass through their space.
If we can celebrate this in a more ritual
the eve of May 1st light a small fire outside or (if we want to stay home or not we can find a suitable space) a red candle saying :
"Lord of the Wood bring your gifts of fertility because the earth is awake from his sleep."
Then light a second fire on the left of the first (or a green candle) saying
"Beautiful Lady Earth, rejoice. The Great Deer is looking for his wife 'cause the summer has arrived. "
Then we in the middle of two fires three times, hailing the summer is here and shouting" Nice. "
We meditate on the mysteries of fertility, with reference to the blossoming of nature, both to our inner fertility.
Finally, we can ritually consume wine and desserts (always a part for Mother Earth and its creatures).
would be better to celebrate with other people or even better, with your partner.
