May Day Greetings at Beltane
Good morning!🌞
A symbolic fire (the element of the Season of Hearts) was one of the main rituals of the festival, helping to celebrate the return of life and fertility to the world. A traditional Maypole gathering was also part of the celebration.🔥
Rooted in ancient Celtic traditions, Beltane is one of eight festivals on the Wheel of the Year, which depicts time as continuous and cyclical — with an invitation to pause about every six-and-a-half weeks to mark the passage of time in relation to what is happening in the natural world.☸️
Each of these festivals are coincident with the Solstices, Equinoxes, and Cross-Quarter (or Mid-Season) days marked along the EHc Solar Year. Celebrating these seasonal shifts is non-dogmatic and something that anyone can do, no matter your religion or faith tradition.🥳
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Photo by Chaman Kumar: https://www.pexels.com/photo/low-angle-shot-of-a-of-multi-colored-textile-attached-together-on-a-pole-3038539/
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