Beltane

Beltane Tree Blessing Charm

Beltane Tree Blessing Charm (Goddess and Green Man)

This charm is a simple and meaningful way to connect with the exuberant surge in earth energy that bursts forth at Beltane.It can be used for blessing and honouring a tree or as part of a Handfasting, Baby Blessing or Summerlands ceremony.

Equally it can be adapted for healing purposes or as an expression of hope for the future.

You will need :

A piece of white ribbon, cord or wool (to represent peace, healing and tranquillity) big enough to tie gently to a branch .

Honey dissolved in a little warm water and allowed to cool (clear honey works best ) – for healing, fertility, love, gratitude, and as an offering.

To begin, approach your chosen tree. Clear your mind and focus on the ceremony/blessing ahead. You are going to walk around the tree three times, clockwise. At the end of each round you are going to touch the tree with your right hand and make a heart connection with it. This is the important thing.

Walking slowly around the tree on the first circling say:“With grateful heart and loving mind I give thanks for your wisdom”. Touch the tree with your right hand for as long as you feel necessary.

On your second circling say: “With impassioned heart and respectful mind I give thanks for your silent strength”.Again touch the tree with your right hand.

On the third circling say: “With blossoming heart and inspired mind I give thanks for your wild beauty.” Touch the tree with your right hand.

Now sit or kneel in front of the tree. Pour a little of your honey at the base of the tree and say:“May you be blessed with Beltane’s bursting, replenished in Beltane greening, strengthened by Beltane passionate flame. Brightest Beltane Blessings on you my friend.”

Pour the last of your honey, take your ribbon and tie it to a branch and say “With love, gratitude and open heart.” And the charm is now complete.

You can do a distant blessing on a tree that you are far away from by using a pot of earth and just the honey. And as ever you can use your own words to make the charm your own.

Egg Charm for Beltane

Jenny Heston · 5:20 pm ·

Egg Charm For Beltane.

(Courtesy of Goddess and Green Man)

Think carefully what you wish for! The general rule of thumb is a brown egg for wishes involving animals and white for wishes involving people and plants, for example healing a sick animal, person or plant. Eggs with white shells are difficult to come by now as chickens are generally given feed which produces the desired brown shell, but in recent years some of the supermarkets are making white eggs available at this time of year so they are worth looking out for.

Blow the egg. Using a fat needle, pierce a hole in both ends of the egg, making one hole larger than the other. Using the needle pierce the egg yolk gently and swirl it around to break up the yolk. Place a small drinking straw in one end and gently blow through the other hole to help gravity do its work.
Paint Your Egg Talisman. When your egg has thoroughly dried out place it on top of a little mound of blue tack to hold it in place and you are ready to go! Choose a symbol to represent your wish – a heart for love, coin for prosperity, a candle for wisdom, whatever is meaningful for you. Or you can paint the whole egg in a corresponding colour – red for love, green for prosperity, purple for wisdom and so on. Another way to do it is to stick rose petals on for love, or feathers for fertility – again it is what is meaningful to you that is important.
When it is ready find a suitable place for it and prepare for it for hanging by threading a thin thread (embroidery thread, thin wool) through the two holes and secure it with a large knot, a bead, or even a matchstick at the bottom to hold it steady.
Clear your mind and focus on your desire for abundance/fruitfulness and its place in your life:

‘Little charm made of shell as I hang you here may all be well. May all things grow. May all things flow. Blessings for the turning of the Wheel.”

Use these words or any others that you are comfortable with – remember this is all about your intention.

Dandelion Renewal Ritual

Jenny Heston · 5:30 pm ·

Dandelion Renewal Spell

Just as the onset of Spring transforms the earth with a lush green haze and a profusion of blooms that hint to the bounty of summer, we too can feel a tightening of spirit, a renewal of body, mind and soul as spring’s promises are fulfilled all around us.

With dandelion’s association with growth and transformation, this dandelion renewal spell can be done alone or with a group and is soooo appropriate to do at Beltane. (Assuming spring has come to your neighbourhood).

All you need is an intact dandelion seed head per person. If working with kids then talk for a moment about renewal and what it means to them. Have everyone or just yourself hold up their dandelion seeds heads and say together,

The air is alive with the hum of bees

As the wind tousles the tops of trees.

The blooms are bright and fertility abounds,

Our wish, dear Lady, for renewal to be found.

Not only across this greening land,

But within the hearts of every woman, child, and man.

Blessed be!

Blow your dandelion seed heads to the four directions. As you do this, imagine the dandelion seeds planting themselves into the hearts of humankind. Imagine an abundance of joy, peace, and fulfillment for all that happens as the dandelion takes root.

When you’re done, find a nice spot in a field, park, or lawn. If you feel inclined make a circlet of dandelions and reflect on the sunny intentions, thoughts and bright ideas for the future.

Faerie Offering

Jenny Heston · 6:21 pm ·

This Beltane, celebrate your interconnection to the web of all life, including the life of the faerie folk, also known as the aliveness and consciousness within all of nature. A handful of birdseed can be an excellent offering to the fae, as can tumbled or faceted crystals, shiny coins, and beer, ale, or champagne in walnut shells!

When you leave an offering to the fairies, do so with love and open-hearted generosity. After all, these are the beautiful beings who help our beloved planet to sparkle, shine, burgeon, and bloom. Making an offering to the fairies will help draw more fairies to your yard or other outdoor area, while also sensitizing you to the magical realm of the fae.

But let’s be honest, there are some glorious ways to acknowledge the amazing fae who flit in and out of your lives on on a day to day basis.

Build a faerie door on a tree.

Put glorious crystals out on the earth (preferably your garden or a potted plant).

Most certainly if you have some berries, put them in a tea cup as an offering.

Put a little pile of birdseed outside and watch the flickers, sparrows and others flood in and snarfle it up.

Rose petals – Roses are said to have the highest and purest vibration of any living thing. As such, their fresh petals can help attract fairies and open the portal to the realm of the fae.

Wildflower paper – take a piece of paper write your gorgeous wishes to the fae, gently dampen it under the tap and pop some wildflower seeds in it and then plant it!

Beltane

Beltane Tree Blessing Charm (Goddess and Green Man)

Egg Charm For Beltane.

(Courtesy of Goddess and Green Man)

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