BELTANE :: Sabbat of Sacred Union ::

~ Heaven & Earth ~

~ May Queen & Oak King ~

~ The Masculine & Feminine within & around ~

~ The Flowers & The Pollinators ~

~ The Body, Heart & Soul ~

~ The Sun & The Earth ~

Beltane is the cross quarter holy day between The Spring Equinox and The Summer Solstice, the peak of the spring and the coming summer. Astrologically, the portal is at its peak when the Sun is at 15 degrees Taurus. In Celtic Tradition, Beltane arrived when the Hawthorne Tree would flower like a blooming, white maiden. This sacred tree stands at the gateway to the faery realm and the wood was used for marriage torches, the branches woven for wedding crowns. Lovers slept under the blooming trees on Mayday and the enactment of the Sacred Marriage, Hieros Gamos, is an embodied ritual of love that anchors the energies of bliss, creation, fertility, ecstasy into the Earth.

The Beltane Portal is across from the Samhain Portal on The Great Wheel of the Year. Both of these points are when the veils is considered thinnest. On Samhain, we connect to the spirits beyond the veil, our ancestors, and the energies of grief that feed the Holy. On Beltane, we engage our will and intention with how we connect to the spirits of the unborn, of creativity, fertility, inspiration and love. We may choose to ride the ecstatic currents of sacred sexuality, bringing this energy into the Earth, feeding the Holy and marrying the Cosmos and the Earth through our bodies and states of open hearted bliss. We may choose celibacy or dive into the transformative healing of rituals of self love, making love to ourselves, rituals of self worth, and rituals of the Sacred Marriage of the Inner God and Inner Goddess ~ an advanced path of spiritual self alchemy.

This is the time for you to flood your body, cells, soul and heart with as much bliss, love, self worth, and ecstasy as you can bare. The expansion of bliss and praise is the medicine and magick that this portal calls forth for you. Allow your Self and Heart to guide the rituals you create that are most nourishing, luxurious, celebratory and deliciously divine for you at this time. What follows are some of my favorite prayers, invocations, two druid rituals and poems that I hope will inspire you. Some of them are from pagan or druid lineages — these hold a collective hum of prayers that have been invoked at this time and will weave you into the greater web of these invocations. May they inspire you when invoking the God & The Goddess for your rituals.