May Day is the ancient pagan Beltane fire celebration of the Maypole Dance the phallic dance of fertility. Beltane fires are lit atop hilltops.
Revelers intertwine ribbons and dance around the MayPole. Traditionally masked young men and women would meet as strangers in the night, to mate,on the earth, in the bonfire shadows, to surrender to the natural desires of Spring,budding life and new passion running in their veins. Children conceived at Beltane were considered sacred and special and born around St. Brigid’s day, also a Fiery Goddess.
We are moving with the round of the year, May 1st marks the cross-quarter, half- way point between Spring and Summer Solstice now. The days are lengthening in the Northern hemisphere. Conversely, pagans are celebrating Halloween or Samhain down under, the Witches New year. It is the Day of the Dead in the southern Hemisphere and the fire festival of renewed life in the northern half.
Go with the flow, the natural flow or CHI of earth energy. Celebrate the renewed life force. You don’t have to be pagan to commune with the masculine life force rising.
The waxing Earthy Virgo Moon conjuncts Mars -@ 1:27 am PDT/ 4:27 am EDT to lend a perfect mirror.
There are more Grand Trines between Virgo Moon and Mars, Pluto in Capricorn and Sun in Taurus.
It’s an excellent time to conceive tonight, literally with the cosmic golden Triangles blessings, if not a physical child then any creative means of self-expression. Explore more soulful { PLuto} avenues of work and service {VIRGO} , and simply allow your body sense and feelings [ TAURUS} to walk your silent minded talk. Celebrate being in the BODY! MAke love, dance with passion around the bonfire!
I see May Day as the first day to a 5 day ceremonial uprising and celebration.
With the upcoming 5 5 5 , also Cinco de Mayo, Wesak, and an incredibly powerful once a year extra sexy Scorpio FULL MOON coming up
use MAY DAY as a synchronic potent fiery spirit initiation to ritually totally transform your life, in balancing completing and fullfilling YOU with the precious 5th element in your life.
So start May day DAY 1 – with honouring the FIRE element. It’s prefect! Fire= EAST, RED, passion, MARS, Phallic, beginnings
ALWAYS smudge,your self first to cleanse and purify your self before you do any ceremony or sacred ritual using sacred cedar, sweet grass, sage or incense.
Always cast a sacred circle, delineating sacred space from profane space. You can sprinkle it with blessed water, or simply intend it,
Use candles which match the elements: In the Native American tradition:
Yellow for FIRE, Red for WATER, BLACK for EARTH, White for AIR, Blue or RED for spirit.
Different traditions associate different elements to different directions depending on where they live geographically. May seem confusing but it makes sense. If you live on the west coast Water,the ocean is in the west, etc. Puru uses a different system and animal emblems.
Beginning in the south with the coiled serpent {Kundalini energy} Innocence,the past,
moving to the west the Jaguar, death and rebirth,earth
to the north,air beautiful sweet nectar drinking hummingbird,
and finally to the East, fire, the Sun and the Condor soaring with spirit.
The 5th element is all our relations, all the peoples, teachers, creatures and the Star nations,
Once in you’re sacred space always move clock-wise,
May Day, 1= FIRE, May 2- WATER, May 3 -EARTH, May 4 – AIR, May 5 = SPIRIT/SOUL
Use whatever associations you like to the 4 elements, whatever has personal resonance with you, use it.
to learn more about the elements go to my website: http://taratarotweb.tripod.com/id21.html
I’ll post helpers for each days ceremony.
Practical {Taurus} Go with the energetic flow.
Blessings TARA
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Tara Greene,Tarot Reader, Astrology Psychic 