Beltane celebrates Fire, male sexuality, and fairies

Beltane celebration rituals begin tonight April 30. It’s Walpurgis night, the night before May 1st, Beltane.
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Jim Champion / The 2007 burning wicker man, Butser Ancient Farm

SACRED PHALLIC FIRE CELEBRATION FESTIVAL 
Light the fires of passion, as this festival celebrates love, conception, fertility, and the power of the masculine phallic force of the horned God to initiate new life in the Goddess.
The ancient God Pan is ready to mate with the Goddess and impregnate her. This is a very ancient night of celebrating the “Heiros Gamos” or SACRED MARRIAGE between the Goddess and the God, meeting in the fields, or in the woods to honor fertility and new life.
Setting new intentions on this night is very powerful.
MAYPOLE 
The MAYPOLE is the phallic symbol and the participants weave their ribbons around as they dance the spiral dance of time and our interwoven connectivity with all our relations on MAY day.
 
This is one of the major cross-quarter days in the year. We are half way to summer in the northern hemisphere and the veils between the worlds are thin.
The FAE or fairies come out and dance in magic forest circles and all of our ancestors are close be. Beltane celebrates fertility, and seeding new intentions with magic passion and light. It is a time of joyful invocation, healing, and beginnings.
 
Beltane is the time to plant all your seeds for future endeavors you wish to actualize and harvest at the end of summer.
Invoke the spirit of these intentions in the time of TAURUS, an earth sign.
Participants light the Beltane fires traditionally on hilltops and jump over it for purification.

the VEIL BETWEEN THE WORLD’S ARE THINNEST just like at Halloween or Samhain, the energy is the same. The Faery Queen goes out riding in the woods tonight.

Dancing  around the MAY POLE is an ancient fertility celebration of the maiden and the horned god who would meet in the dark, make love as strangers, embodying the God and Goddess.  

This is the night when Maidens would go wander in the woods, as FLORA, the flowers, NATURE SPRUNG newly born, maiden has nothing to do with virginity or marriage as they are simply young, and eager to mate, as they are in touch with natural sexuality, Nature’s rhythms, to give themselves to a stranger in the woods, the Green Man, also called PAN to the Greeks,the Horned Stag, called Cernunnos, in Latin, he is raw male phallic, sexual energy, virile and youthful. 

 CERNUNNOS the horny man

 

If a man had been created in the horned God’s image he would be free to be wild, without being cruel, angry without being violent, sexual without being coercive spiritual without being unsexed,and truly able to love.”

– Starhawk, The Spiral Dance

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 Children conceived this night are considered to be magical and to belong to the realm of FAIRY as in The MISTS of AVALON. The maidens do not know the man they mate with in the sacred Marriage ritual.

Couples would also take vows to be in relationships for a year and a day, sort of test driving a relationship  to see if they are compatible.

It is considered unlucky to marry in MAY as this month is dedicated to the wedding of the GOD and the GODDESS  alone.

 Another important custom is bathing in dew gathered before dawn on Beltane Morn, your beauty will flourish throughout the year. Sprinkled with the dew insures you of health and happiness. Or drinking from the well before dawn of Beltane is also good luck.

 Leftover Food from May 1st eve should be left out for the fairies.

We will light our fire tonight. Wishing you all a Blessed Beltane. 

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Jupiter opposite Neptune, real magic

Sept. 16/17  JUPITER in Virgo  aligns opposite Neptune in PISCES. This is the Heaven on Earth marker. 

This is an extremely BENEVOLENT beneficial, expansion of practical magic, spiritual and earth devotion, daily miracles and healing the split between matter and spirit. This aspect maximizes telepathy. Muggles, wizards and witches unite.

Jupiter Neptune Astrology Tara Greene

Ordinary people will discover in everyday circumstances that we are actually spiritual beings temporarily in physical bodies which are not just the work horses of the soul but sacred temples. This is a healing of the split between mind and body, the Divine Feminine and the Patriarchal Piscean Sky Gods of the Abrahmic stories. 

Jupiter rules religion, education justice and truth. Pisces rules spirituality, Oneness, emotional, spiritual realization, compassion, creativity. This is an immanent pagan, earth worshipping spirituality being birthed. Paganism, earth based witchcraft, and Goddess worship are already the fastest growing spirituality in North America and Europe. 

It’s like a soul kiss.

STARHAWK was one of the first published wiccan witches.

Here is THE CHARGE OF THE STAR GODDESS  Traditional by Doreen Valiente, as adapted by Starhawk:

“Listen to the words of the Great Mother, Who of old was called Artemis, Astarte, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana, Arionrhod, Brigid, and by many other names:

Whenever you have need of anything, once a month, and better it be when the moon is full, you shall assemble in some secret place and adore the spirit of Me Who is Queen of all the Wise.

You shall be free from slavery, and as a sign that you be free you shall be naked in your rites.

Sing, feast, dance, make music and love, all in My Presence, for Mine is the ecstasy of the spirit and Mine also is joy on earth.

For My law is love unto all beings. Mine is the secret that opens the door of youth, and Mine is the cup of wine of life that is the cauldron of Cerridwen, that is the holy grail of immortality.

I give the knowledge of the spirit eternal, and beyond death I give peace and freedom and reunion with those that have gone before.

Nor do I demand aught of sacrifice, for behold, I am the Mother of all things and My love is poured out upon the earth.

Hear the words of the Star Goddess, the dust of Whose feet are the hosts of Heaven, whose body encircles the universe:

I Who am the beauty of the green earth and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters,

I call upon your soul to arise and come unto me.

For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe.

From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return.

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

And you who seek to know Me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am That which is attained at the end of desire.

Isn’t that beautiful? I still have my original somewhat tattered copy of Starhawk’s book from 1980. 

If you would just repeat out loud the beautiful words in the recitation it will change your view of spirituality and your relationship to your body and the earth. 

The earth needs spiritual healing and real practical Jupiter in Virgo physical cleaning up too.

The aspect is exact  Sept 16 @ 11:53 pm PDT/ Sept. 17 @ 2:53 pm EDT @ 7+ Virgo almost 8 degrees.

A VERY OPPORTUNE MAGICAL ALIGNMENT 

This aspect helps you to make your dreams come true. It will take work, effort, discipline yes, but Jupiter makes it fun too. Expect miracles to happen daily.

This aspect expands everyone’s understanding of what spirituality and psychic energy is.

Neptune is very strong in its own home sign. Jupiter rules the sign of PISCES in traditional astrology so Jupter is doubly benefic at this aspect. 

This is a 6th house Virgo/12 house axis. The 6th sign {house} is the last of the personal development houses before reaching the 7th house and the natural horizon line of the West. The 6th house pertains to health, discipline, budgets harvesting, food, digestion, work, pets, community and perfection. 

The 12th house and sign pertains to endings, Karma, the Unconscious, memories, dreams, intuition, spirit, compassion, forgiveness, faith, addictions, delusions. 

The sign of Virgo is the HERMIT in the Tarot #9  and Pisces is symbolized by the MOON # 18

The Hermit's Lamp Tarot Tara Greene

moon

 

Jupiter the truth will break the spell and illusion of organized religion. It is time.It will also reveal false prophets, healers, spiritual gurus, shysters, tara-medium.com which is  a total fraud site and that ilk. 

When Saturn enters Sagittarius Sept. 17 the truth about false religion will end.

Saturn opposes Neptune with Jupiter in Virgo ruling both signs. This issue gets me so passionate these days. The only way we will save ourselves and our earth is to see the  lies, power mongering, deceit, delusion of all organized religion and drop the blinders, the giving away of our power, intelligence and our autonomy to know that Spirit lives within each individual. This is especially a woman’s spiritual revolution as all organized religions are Patriarchal and are mean to control and put down women and their feared power. 

I am a very spiritual person always have been but since I was a child. At  8 years old I saw through the false beliefs, the control, the putting down of women, the despising of nature. I refused to participate. I remembered who I was and what the truth was. Nature is God and it is everywhere. It is why we are awed and fascinated with the stars at night with the beauty of the earth with our love for animals. Spirituality is the ability to know and sense from within what source energy is and of course it is all about LOVE.  Any dogma is ego. All religious ideas become egoic and therefore all false. Some original teachings hold the truth. We know it is not right to kill or steal. 

MEDITATION and MANIFESTATION

On the 16th/17th be out in Nature. Forrests were the original churches. Trees are God, Hug a tree, kiss the earth, walk barefoot, breathe in the sky, and send kisses to the clouds, feel the wind, rain or whatever element. Know that it is all Holy and Good. Make a circle call in the four elements. Know that you yourself are made of the same four elements. Fire= spirit, Water=emotions, Earth= the body, Air= the mind. 

Mediate on bridging the split between your body, the physical world and Heaven. 

Gratitude is so important. Visualize the earth and heaven being one and not the patriarchal idea of an above split off ideal heaven either. Your real sense of what Heaven is. Kindness, fairness, beauty, creativity, joy for all peace. 

Make a vow to do three practical things to heal this split within yourself and for the world. 

Random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty would be a good aphorism for this.

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May Day eve, Walpurgis Night, bawdy Festivities, Astrology

Its time to go romping in the woods this Walpurgis night The night before May 1st, Beltane..

Tonight’s the night, when the VEIL BETWEEN THE WORLD’S ARE THINNEST

it is 1/2 way from Hallow’een or Samhain and the energy is poised the same.

The Faery Queen goes out a riding in the woods tonight.

It’s  a magical “no time” or TWILIGHT.

This is the night when Maidens would go wander in the woods, as FLORA, the flowers, NATURE SPRUNG newly born,

maiden has nothing to do with virginity, they are simply young, and eager to mate, as they are in touch with Nature’s rhythms, to give themselves to a stranger in the woods, the Green Man, also called PAN to the Greeks,

the Horned Stag, called Cernunnos, in Latin, he is raw male phallic, sexual energy and virility, he is youthful, 

Here is his ODE

horned God beefcake

If a man had been created in

the horned God’s image

he would be free to be wild,

without being cruel,                                                                                                                       

angry without being violent,

sexual without being coercive

spiritual without being unsexed,

and truly able to love. – Starhawk, The Spiral Dance

 

So this night is considered at night SACRED SEXUAL LIASONS. The ancient had no morals on life’s necessities. Children conceived this  night are considered to be magical and to belong to the realm of FAIRY as in The MISTS of AVALON. The maidens do not know the man they mate with in the sacred Marriage ritual.

Couples would also take vows to be in relationships for a year and a day, sort of test driving a relationship  to see if they are compatible.

It is considered unlucky to marry in MAY as this month is dedicated to the wedding of the GOD and the GODDESS  alone.

 Another important custom is bathing in dew gathered before dawn on Beltane Morn, your beauty will flourish throughout the year. Sprinkled with the dew insures you of health and happiness. Or drinking from the well before dawn of Beltane is also good luck.

 Left over Food from May 1st eve should be left out for the fairies.

 This is the banishing of WINTER, the SUN grows stronger to ensure renewed life, food, abundance on the earth.

 Mercury enters TAURUS at 8:37 am to ensure we are thinking DOWN TO EARTH.

 a serious tone to this day, MARS opposes Saturn see previous article

Moon enters AQUARIUS in the a.m. to lighten your emotions with your mind, detachment is the mood of the day

SUN TRINE PLUTO also very beneficial earthy 11 degrees Capricorn TAURUS, also VIRGO gets the blessings

AQUARIUS Moon squares Saturn later in the evening

 reality check, you can scrutinize your deep emotional upheavals easier in this objective mood

Moon squares Mars in Taurus PDT 

urge to act for the common good, organizing to support the earth’s resources

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