Lighting Beltane Fires

celebrating sacred sexuality + revolutionary times

Beltane is the doorway into Summer. While the Spring Equinox heralds an energetic pivot point, Beltane presents the threshold into the second season. At Beltane the blossoms riffle through the air, heavy rains soak fertile earth, and our resilience is increasing with every extra moment of sunlight we are able to absorb. Beltane is for sacred sexuality, for Earth worship, for communing with the spirits of the land. Beltane is a deeply devotional axis along the wheel of the year. 

Traditionally a fire festival in the Celtic calendar, Beltane fires were lit for revelries, protection, and inspiration. At Beltane people celebrated the relief of the Summer months ahead, the resilience they built by making it through the harsh Winter months, and the cyclical turning and returning of life itself. Fire is the element of inspiration, creativity, and sexuality. Lighting fires (candles or bonfires) on Beltane is an affirmation of your own creative-sexual life force, and perhaps an effort to direct that power in particular intentioned ways.