Feeling a bit frisky? A bit ready to ‘rock ‘n’ roll’?
Well that would be the Beltane energy sneaking in.
If you live down in the Southern Hemisphere – Forget Halloween! We Southerners on the other side of the rock should be rejoicing the light not the dark today.
Beltane is about fertility and passion and life. It’s a time to welcome the abundance of the fertile earth, and a day that has a long (and sometimes scandalous) history!
Many Australians celebrate Halloween. But those in tune with the cycles of nature will be celebrating Beltane instead – the Spring fertility festival. While Halloween traditionally celebrates the dying of the summer and the passage of the world into darkness and is a festival of autumn, Beltane marks the beginning of the summer months.
This fire festival is a time for feasting, bonfires, courtship and welcoming in the light. It’s a time to celebrate our own creativity and a wonderful festival for lovers!