the fire festival
Beltane
May 1
beltane doesn't do subtle. she's the fire festival for a reason.
she marks
fertility, union, the body honored instead of hidden
her colors
redwhitegreen
her correspondences
hawthornthe maypolebonfire ashrosehoney
Beltane is the year's other veil-thinning — not death's door like Samhain, but life's: fertility, union, the body treated as sacred instead of something to apologize for. Bonfires, flowers, and the maypole's braided ribbons all point at the same thing. Whatever you've been holding back from wanting, this is the sanctioned night to want it out loud.