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• Beltane: A Celebration of Fire, Fertility, and Con …

  • Ways to Celebrate Beltane at Home (Wherever You Ar …

    • Light a Candle or Small Fire 

      • Beltane is a fire festival, so bringing flame into …

    • Make a Flower Crown, Wear Something Green and brin …

    • Bless Your Garden or Houseplants

    • Create a Mini Maypole

    • Prepare a Seasonal Feast

    • Journal or Meditate on Fertility (of All Kinds)

    • Celebrate Sensuality

• Dear Joy: Your Personal Questions Answered

• Special Dates and Celebrations This Week

• Coven Share: How do you do you?

• Thanks & What’s Upcoming?

Hello ,

A warm welcome to both new and returning readers. I’m delighted you’re joining me this weekend, and I’d like to wish you a Happy Easter.

Next week brings our regular slot at the end of the month, when we look at our Tarot Horoscope to see what May has in store for us. The next celebration on the Wheel of the Year—Beltane—is also nearly upon us.

This week, I’ll be sharing what I love about Beltane and offering a few ways you can celebrate at home. In Dear Joy, we hear from a self-aware soul wondering if witchcraft is for them, because “I’m overall a very anxious and negative person and I’m afraid that would spill into practicing.”

My two pence? Our practice needs more like them.

Beltane: A Celebration of Fire, Fertility, and Connection

As the Wheel of the Year turns once again, we find ourselves approaching one of the most joyful (pun intended), sensual, and vibrant festivals in the pagan calendar — Beltane. Calendar Beltane Celebrated on the 1st May, and Luna Beltane on Monday the 12th of May syncing in with The Flower Full Moon. Beltane marks the halfway point between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. It’s one of the four fire festivals, brimming with energy, fertility, passion, and renewal — a celebration of life at its fullest bloom.

For me, Beltane holds a particularly sacred place in my heart and timeline. It was the first time I truly revelled in the Earth’s cycles with others. It was the late 90s — I was a young woman growing up with a toddler also. Somehow, I ended up at a small Beltane camp (I can’t remember how I heard about it!). I arrived, slightly unsure, and was warmly welcomed in a tent with a bowl of nettle soup. From that moment, I felt I’d come home. There was a handfasting — two glorious bodies covered in mud and leaves, wild and radiant — and Maypole dancing that spiralled joy through the whole camp. It remains one of the most magical memories of connection to the oneness, and a time before I had the wisdom to truly appreciate the magick I was experiencing, and it took two and a half decades to come back to my richness.

Beltane invites us into that freedom again — to shed the heaviness of winter, to open our hearts to connection, pleasure, growth, and creativity. At its heart, it is a celebration of union: between masculine and feminine, Earth and sky, spirit and body, lover and beloved. It’s about dancing with life — literally and metaphorically.

Ways to Celebrate Beltane at Home (Wherever You Are)

You don’t need to attend a wild festival (though I highly recommend it if you ever get the chance!) — Beltane can be honoured just as powerfully in the quiet intimacy of your home, garden, or even balcony. Here are some simple ways to mark the occasion:

Light a Candle or Small Fire 

Beltane is a fire festival, so bringing flame into your ritual is key. If you have a safe outdoor space, a small bonfire or firepit is ideal. If not, a candle on your altar works beautifully. Focus on the flame and invite its warmth and life force into your heart. Speak aloud what you wish to grow in your life.

Make a Flower Crown, Wear Something Green and bring fresh flowers into your home

Channel the energy of fertility, growth, and the lush abundance of spring by adorning yourself with flowers, leaves, or herbs. Even a simple daisy chain carries powerful symbolism. Wearing green also honours the spirit of the season and invites connection with the Earth. Bringing flowers into your home always lightens the vibe.

Bless Your Garden or Houseplants

Beltane is a wonderful time to connect with the green world. Water your plants with intention, speak words of gratitude, and perhaps tuck a small offering of honey or herbs into the soil (especially near a window where the wee folk will feel your intent of welcome, there's room for us all). If you have a garden, walk barefoot and let the Earth speak to you.

Create a Mini Maypole

If you’re feeling crafty, you can create a mini Maypole charm by plaiting ribbons . Weaving the ribbons in and out creates its own binding magick. It's a beautiful symbol of union and joyful co-creation. Adorn your wand with ribbon plats in green, gold, red and blue for the elements and good luck. Hang ribbons in your houseplants or plat and hang in your window. Dance around alone or with loved ones.

Prepare a Seasonal Feast

Make a meal with seasonal spring ingredients — think fresh greens, nettle soup, early fruits, wild garlic, and floral teas. Cook with intention, stir in love and laughter, and share it with someone dear if you can.

Journal or Meditate on Fertility (of All Kinds)

Fertility doesn’t just mean babies — it’s about ideas, creativity, projects, healing, and relationships. What in your life wants to be born or blossom? Where can you say yes to passion, vitality, or connection? Have you a hobby that could bloom into a source of income. What fills your heart with joy?

Celebrate Sensuality

Beltane honours the sacred union — it’s a sensual, earthy, embodied festival. Whether through touch, dance, art, or time with a partner or your own body, allow yourself to feel alive. Pleasure is a form of devotion. It's always a good time for a magickal bath.

As hedge witches, we honour the turning of the wheel, not only in ritual but in how we live. Beltane reminds us that we are meant to bloom. We are meant to connect. We are meant to dance barefoot under trees and whisper love songs to the moon. And perhaps most importantly, Beltane teaches us to savour the sacredness of now — before wisdom teaches us how precious it truly is.

Wherever you are this Beltane, may you feel the fire in your belly, the wind in your hair, and the soft whisper of the earth saying:

"You are free. You are loved. You are blooming."

Dear Joy: Your Personal Questions Answered

On my Etsy shop JoyWellnessWitch my practice is open to the whole world. I'm very grateful to the openness and connection I have with my clients. Each week I'll be sharing someone's energetic queries and my intuitive advice.

Special Dates and Celebrations This Week

MON 21st Easter Monday bank holiday Waning quarter, The Waning Quarter Moon, also known as the Last Quarter, is a powerful time for release, reflection, and realignment. It’s ideal for banishing lingering negativity, breaking bad habits, and clearing energetic clutter before the next lunar cycle begins. Use this phase to tie up loose ends, let go of what no longer serves you, and make space for new intentions at the New Moon.

SUN 27th New Moon, The New Moon is a potent time for setting fresh intentions, planting spiritual seeds, and beginning new cycles. It’s ideal for manifestation, visioning your desires, and calling in new opportunities or relationships. Use this phase to meditate, journal, and focus your energy on what you wish to grow in the coming weeks.

Coven Share: How do you do you?

We feel good as we connect with our world and our tribe, the way I celebrate the cycles of the year and being connected to the elements may look very different to you, please share your practice with me, we grow as a community and how you celebrate may really inspire others, this is your space to fill.

If you have a picture of how you appreciate nature, celebrate the cycles of the year or of your practice please share them with me, I will only be able to pick one that I feel best represents this time, but I’d love to know how you are getting along. Please say if you'd like an anonymous share or if you're happy for me to use your name and location in the world.

Thanks & What’s Upcoming?

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