05/01/2025
Happy May Day! Also known as Beltane or Bealtaine, meaning bright fire.
Today celebrates the fire of life and the incredible aspects that represents. Such as the sun increasing fertility and outward, upward growth. The passion that resides inside us and ignites our interests, curiosity, explorations and love for the world. The fire of our life force that gives us energy, brings our dreams to life and creates. The fire of life force that is threaded through seed, soil, nut, baby and egg, pulling and pushing them to break open, to grow and bring their medicine into the world.
With the coming of Beltane, comes a beautiful unfolding of colour within the Forests, hedgerows and fields. The world begins to show that a new phase is beginning, life is awakening, budding, opening and surging forward.
Beltane beauty and passion reminds us of the life force, passions and dreams we hold within us that long for us to let them grow and unfold into our lives. It calls us to be inspired by the riotous beauty and medicine embellishing the landscape, willing us to add our own medicine and flavour to the colour of this earth.
This is a time to listen to what lies within, to what wants to be heard and felt and tasted. Imagine yourself as a forest, what beauty, medicine and power would you grow from your dark matter?
This is a time to remember the life force within, to dance with it, sing with it, listen to it, feel it and find ways to let it move beyond the stagnancy and concrete. Let it be the dandelions and moss of this world, cracking open the concrete and creating medicine from your core.
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Poignant words of insight by Brigit Anna McNeill
I have fond school memories of dancing round the may pole and watching the ribbons weave their beautiful pattern. 🩷
With May Day blessings
Fiona
www.Earthmonk.guru
Illustration by Emily Duffin
