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꧁ℰ𝓃𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓉ℯ𝒹 ℱ𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓎꧂

Dream life 🌷💗

Fairy garden 🧚🏻‍♀️ 🪴

Hearst’s Garden

Protect Your Energy

Not everyone deserves access to your energy.

Not every person. Not every spirit. Not every wandering thought.

This is your sign to:

• Draw salt lines at your doors and windows

• Cleanse your space with smoke, sound, or sweeping.

• Wear obsidian, onyx, or tourmaline when the world feels heavy.

• Visualize mirrors facing outward — reflect back what is not yours.

• Speak your boundaries like you’re casting a circle: firm, sacred, non-negotiable.

You don’t owe access. You don’t owe explanation.

Your energy is a temple. And it is holy.

Protect it like it holds your magic — because it does.

Hoping my next Beltane looks like this :) 🪻🧚🏻‍♀️🌳 🍞 🎀

Beltane.

Blessed be✨

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Where you’ll find me 🪷

Hope everyone had a blessed Beltane. I spent mine giving thanks for the abundance of food to Mother Earth, speaking my manifestations into nature, leaving a fae offering, and dancing around candlelight to end my celebration. I meditated as well.

How did everyone celebrate their Beltane? 😊💐🕯️

🥰💐🎀

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What is Beltane?

Beltane is a fire festival celebrated on the night of April 30th into May 1st in the Northern Hemisphere, and around October 31st into November 1st in the Southern Hemisphere. It marks the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, honoring fertility, passion, and the sacred union between the divine feminine and masculine. Traditionally, it signals the beginning of the light half of the year, a time of growth, abundance, warmth, and blooming life. Beltane celebrates freedom, love, lust, creativity, and the return of life to the natural world, bringing with it new, flourishing beginnings. May 1st is a day of joy and play. After a harsh winter, it becomes a celebration of renewal, of aliveness, and of nature’s wild rebirth.

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The History of Beltane

The name Beltane comes from Old Irish Beltene, meaning "bright fire" or "The fires of Bel". Some people link it to the Celtic god Belenus, a solar and healing deity, while others have drawn comparisons to Baal, a fertility god, though that idea is debated and not widely accepted.

Historically, Beltane was celebrated in Celtic regions, most notably Ireland and Scotland, as a pastoral festival. Bonfires were lit on hilltops, and cattle were driven between two of them to protect them from disease and ensure fertility. People would jump over the flames, not just for luck, but as a way to connect with sacred fire and invoke fertility, health, and courage for the coming summer season.

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Beltane and the Fairy Realm

Beltane is a liminal time, one of the two key points in the year (along with Samhain) when the veil between our world and the Otherworld grows thin. While Samhain leans into the realm of spirits and ancestors, Beltane belongs to the fae.

It is said that on the eve of Beltane, the Fair Folk wander freely, drawn to laughter, music, and offerings left with care. In many old traditions, people avoided disturbing fairy mounds or sacred groves during this time, choosing instead to leave gifts like milk, honey, or sweet bread beneath hawthorn trees. These offerings were meant to honor the fae, invite blessings, and protect against mischief.

Wearing a crown of bluebells on Beltane Eve is said to help one see the faeries, as bluebells are sacred to them. A ring of blooming bluebells is also believed to be a favorite gathering spot for garden faeries.

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Beltane and the Hawthorn Tree

Few trees are more sacred to Beltane than the hawthorn. Often called the “fairy tree” in Irish and Scottish folklore, it is said to guard the entrances to the Otherworld. Blooming right around May 1st, its soft white-pink blossoms carry the energy of protection, love, and the unseen.

In Celtic tradition, hawthorn trees were deeply respected as portals to the realm of the fae. During Beltane, it was common to tie ribbons or small offerings to the branches while making heartfelt wishes, not demands, but gentle hopes whispered like prayers. Damaging or cutting a hawthorn tree, especially during this sacred time, was believed to bring terrible luck or stir the wrath of the Fair Folk.

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The Sacred Fire

Fire is the central symbol of Beltane. The festival’s original name literally refers to Bel’s fires, honoring the sun and invoking purification and fertility.

Traditionally, two large bonfires were lit at Beltane, and people, along with their animals, would walk, dance, or even leap between them for blessings, healing, and protection. In some regions, ashes from the sacred fire were scattered over fields to encourage fertility. Couples, especially newlyweds, often passed hand-in-hand through the smoke as a symbol of unity and renewal.

The fire wasn’t just a ritual, it was a living spirit. Lighting it the old way, through friction rather than matches or lighters, was seen as a sacred act, calling upon the raw elemental force of nature itself.

Even today, many Beltane celebrations honor this ancient custom through bonfires, candle magic, and fire rituals. You don’t need a blaze on a hilltop, even a single flame, lit with intention, can carry the sacred spark of Beltane into your home and heart. :D

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The Maypole

The maypole is one of the most central symbols of modern Beltane celebrations. Though it has roots in English May Day traditions, it’s been beautifully woven into Beltane for its rich symbolism of life, fertility, and union.

The tall, phallic pole rising from the earth represents the God, masculine energy, vitality, and the spark of creation. The colorful ribbons and flowers spiraling around it, often held by dancers weaving in circles, represent the Goddess, the womb, fertility, and abundant life. Together, they form a sacred spiral: a dance of harmony between the masculine and feminine, of earth and sky, movement and stillness.

As dancers move around the maypole, their steps create a living mandala, a spell in motion, tied with laughter and bright ribbons.

The dance itself is a celebration of harmony between forces, of weaving ourselves back into the rhythm of the land.

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Beltane x Handfasting

Beltane is also a favored time for handfasting, a traditional pagan betrothal or wedding ritual where a couple’s hands are bound together with ribbons, cords, or braided threads to symbolize their union. In ancient times, a handfasting ceremony could last for a year and a day, after which the couple had the choice to stay together or part ways. Today, many modern pagans choose Beltane as a powerful and romantic time to make such commitments, drawn to the fertile energy of the season. Handfastings are often held outdoors, in nature, near fire, under blooming trees, or surrounded by loved ones in sacred space. The vows exchanged during these rituals can be traditional or deeply personal, as the magic of the ceremony lies in the heart connection and the intention to walk beside each other, bound by love and commitment.

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Magic Correspondences

Planets: Venus

Season: Midpoint between spring and summer

Element: Fire

Time of the Day: Noon

Tarot Cards: The Strength, The Lovers, The Sun, Three of Cups

Colors: Green, Red, Pink, Yellow, Purple, White, Sky Blue, All Pastel Colors

Herbs: Mint, Rosemary, Thyme, Ivy, Nettle, Sage, Basil, Juniper, Clover, Mugwort

Fruits: Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Bananas, Lemon, Cherries

Vegetables: Cucumbers, Carrots, Garlic, Lettuce, New Potatoes

Crystals: Emerald, Bloodstone, Rose Quartz, Carnelian, Red Jasper, Green Aventurine, Moonstone, Fire Agate

Runes: Kenaz, Wunjo, Ingwaz

Trees: Hawthorn, Elder, Willow, Birch

Goddesses: Artemis, Diana, Brigid, Aphrodite, Flora, Gaia, Hera, Astarte, Venus, Juno, Freyja, Epona, Bastet

Gods: Pan, Cernunnos, Belenus, Dionysus, The Green Man, Bacchus, Priapus, Faunus, Eros, Ra

Dragons: Sairys, Fafnir

Flowers: Lilac, Bluebells, Daisy, Lilies, Foxglove, Lily of the Valley, Marigold, Tulips, Violets, Primrose, Peony, Poppy, Honeysuckle

Animals: Frogs, Swans, Cows, Deer, Squirrels, Sheep, Ducks, Cats, Bees, Rabbits, Swallows, Leopards, Lynx, Hares

Magical Powers: Love, Sex, Fertility, Protection, Cleansing, Transformation

Symbols: Maypole, Ribbons, Phallus, Bonfire, Flowers, Faeries, Sex, Floral Crowns, Frogs, Celtic Knots

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Activities to do:

🌸 Make flower-shaped biscuits

🌸 Do candle magick

🌸 Find a local hawthorn tree and make a wish to the faeries

🌸 Wear flowers in your clothes, hair, or as bracelets

🌸 Leave offerings for faeries, as this is the season when they’re most present, you can leave them honey, milk, or biscuits

🌸 Go out for a walk in nature and feel the arrival of summer

🌸 Make a fire in the yard and dance around it (only in safe circumstances, of course); if you don’t have resources, you can light candles in your room (again, be careful)

🌸 Eat anything with oats, as it’s associated with Beltane, such as oatmeal, oatcakes, or other oat-based foods

🌸 Do a tarot or rune reading in the morning of Beltane

🌸 Take care of the trees in your yard or nearby by watering them

🌸 Honor all deities associated with fertility

🌸 Practice faerie magick

🌸 On the morning of Beltane, open your windows or door to warmly welcome the energy of the sabbat.

🌸 Make a Beltane magick jar

🌸 Water your flowers

🌸 Listen to music and dance :D

🌸 Celebrate life, fertility, love, and union

🌸 Take care of your garden, plant seeds, clean dried leaves, and prepare for summer

🌸 Make special Beltane treats

🌸 Casting your circles with oats around this time of year is also a good idea, as oats are a traditional Beltane grain for good luck

🌸 Have a picnic with your loved ones, or organize a gathering with food and grilling

🌸 Honor your ancestors

🌸 Place decorations in your garden

🌸 Plant a tree with any intention you want and take care of it

🌸 Draw runes and specific symbols on paper and burn them

🌸 Do self-love activities

🌸 Practice sex or love magick

🌸 Look for hawthorns in your area and honor them with water and offerings for faeries

🌸 Make a maypole

🌸 Collect flowers

🌸 On the morning of May 1st, wash your face with May Dew or natural spring water

🌸 Connect with the fire element

🌸 Read about the fair folk

🌸 Have a bonfire with your loved ones

🌸 Place ribbons or colored thread in trees with intentions for each, you can use color magick to attract what you need in your life right now (pink for love,

🌸 Meditate

🌸 Make flower crowns and wreaths

🌸 Perform spells for fertility, purification, and love

🌸 As this is a day of love, if you are of an appropriate age, comfortable, being sexually active is part of the celebration

🌸 Buy seeds and plant them in your garden, welcoming the growth of new life

🌸 Create a Beltane altar

🌸 If you don't have a maypole you can dance around your favorite tree <3

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Food and Drinks:

Oats in all forms (oatmeal, oat cookies, oat bread, oatcakes, bannock), strawberries, blueberries, honey, whipped cream with oats, strawberry biscuits, oat and honey bread, blackberry pie, lavender cake, cheese (including Swiss), seasonal potato dishes, fresh fruit salads, tomato and cucumber salads, dairy or plant-based milks, vanilla-flavoured foods, ice cream, grilled food, BBQ, spicy dishes to honor the fire element, May Day wine, white wine, regular wine (with a strawberry placed at the bottom of the glass if you wish), tarts with cheese, mayonnaise.

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May 2025 Witch Guide

New Moon: May 26th

First Quarter: May 4th

Full moon: May 12th

Last Quarter: May 20th

Sabbats: Beltane- May 1st

May Flower Moon

Also known as: Budding Moon(Ojibwe), Dancing Moon(Tunica), Hare Moon, Faery Moon, Flowering Moon(Ojibwe), Flower Moon, Milk Moon, Planting Moon(Dakota, Lakota), Planting Month(Cherokee), Egg Laying Moon(Cree), Sproutkale, Snake Moon(Catawba), Summer Moon(Inupiat), They Plant Moon(Oneida), Thrimilemonath & Winnemanoth

Element: Fire

Zodiac: Taurus & Gemini

Nature spirts: Elves & faeries

Deities: Aphrodite, Artemis, Bsst, Cernunnos, Diana, Flora, Horned God, Kali, Maia, Pan, Priapus & Venus

Animals: Cats, leopard & lynx

Birds: Dove, swallow & swan

Trees:  Hawthorne & rowan

Herbs: Cinnamon, dittany of Crete, elder, mint, mugwort & thyme

Colors: Brown, green, orange, pink, red & yellow

Flowers: Foxglove, lily of the valley, rose & yarrow

Scents: Rose & sandalwood

Stones:  Agate, amber, carnelian, emerald, garnet, malachite, rose quartz, ruby, tourmaline & tsavorite

Issues, intentions & powers:  Divination, enchantment, fertility, love & well-being

Energy: Abundance, creativity, faeries & spirt contact, intuition, love, material gains, money, propagation, relationships & tenacity

May is commonly referred to as the Flower Moon  and the name should be no surprise, because flowers spring forth across North America in abundance this month.

• “Flower Moon” has been attributed to Algonquin peoples, as confirmed by Christina Ruddy of The Algonquin Way Cultural Centre in Pikwakanagan, Ontario.

May’s Moon was also referred to as the “Month of Flowers” by Jonathan Carver in his 1798 publication, Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America: 1766, 1767, 1768 (pp. 250-252), as a likely Dakota name. Carver stayed with the Naudowessie (Dakota) over a period of time; his expedition covered the Great Lakes region, including the Wisconsin & Minnesota areas.

Beltane

Known as: Beltaine, May day, Roodmas & Cethsamhain

Season: Spring

Element: Fire

Symbols: Eggs, flowers, faeries, faery circle(mushrooms),  maypoles, may bush & priapic wands

Colors: Blue, brown, green, light pink, orange, rainbow spectrum, red, white & yellow

Oils/Incense: Frankincense, jasmine, lemon, lilac, mint, passion flower, pine, rose, tuberose, vanilla, woodruff & ylang ylang

Animals: Bee, cattle, frog goat & rabbit

Birds: Dove

Stones: Bloodstone, emerald, lapis lazuli, orange carnelian, rose quartz & sapphire

Mythical: Faeries

Food: Beltane cakes, cherries, dairy foods, green herbal salads, honey, lemonade, meade, May wine(made with white wine, lemon slices & woodruff milk), nuts, oatmeal cakes, oats, strawberries & sweets

Herbs/Plants: Almond, angelica, blackberry, burdock, cinquefoil, damiana, frankincense, gorse, ivy, meadowsweet, mint, mugwort, rosemary, saffron, satyrion root, St John's wort & woodruff

Flowers:  bluebell, daisy, hibiscus, honeysuckle, lilac, lily of the valley. marigold, primrose, rose, rosehip, violet & yellow cowslips

Trees: Apple, ash, birch, cedar, elder, fir, hawthorn, juniper, linden, mesquite, oak, pine, poplar, rowan & willow

Goddesses: Areil, Aphrodite, Artemis, Astarte, Bona Dea, Chin-Hua-Fu-Jen, Cybele, Danu, Diana, Dôn, Eiru, Elen, Eostre, Fand, Flora, Freya, Frigg, Horae, Maia, Niwalen, Rauni, Rhea, Rhiannon, Sarasvati, Var, Venus & Xochiquetzal

Gods: Apollo, Baal, Bacchnalia, Balder, Belenus, Bele, Beltene, Cernunnos, Chung K'uei, Cupid, Eros, Faunus, Freyr, Grannus, The Green Man, Lares, Manawyddan, Odin, Pan,Pluto, Puck, Ra & Taranis

Tarot cards: The Empress, The Emperor, The Hight Priestess & The Magician

Spellwork: Abundance, birth, cooperation, Earth magick, growth, healing, health, love, manifestation, passion, pregnancy, protection, purification & union

Issues, Intentions & Powers: Agriculture, creativity, fertility, lust, marriage, the underworld/otherworld, pleasure, psychic ability, purification, sensuality, sex, visions, warmth & youth

Activities:

•Decorate & dance around a Maypole

• Set up an outdoor altar & leave offerings to faeries

• Prepare a ritual bath with fresh flowers

• Light a bonfire or candles & dance around them

• Set aside time for self care

• Gather flowers & use them to decorate your home or altar

• Prepare a feast to celebrate with friends/family

• Make flower crowns

• Bake bannocks, oat cakes or cookies

• Hang wreaths decorated with ribbons & flowers

• Start a wish book/box/journal

• Visit sacred wells

• Participate in handfasting or romantic partnerships

• Work on/ create a community garden

• Go on a walk & give thanks to nature

• Remove litter from outdoor areas like streams & banks

• Plant flowers in your home, garden or neighborhood(check for non-invasive flowers for your area)

• Cast fertility spells/ participate in sacred sex

• Fill small baskets of flowers & small goodies, then leave them on your friends/neighbors doorstep as a gesture of goodwill & friendship

Beltane is mentioned in the earliest Irish literature and is associated with important events in Irish mythology. Also known as Cétshamhain (‘first of summer’), it marked the beginning of summer & was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect cattle, people & crops, and to encourage growth. (Today, Witches who observe the Wheel of the Year celebrate Beltane as the height of Spring.)

Special bonfires were kindled, whose flames, smoke & ashes were deemed to have protective powers. The people and their cattle would walk around or between bonfires & sometimes leap over the flames or embers. All household fires would be doused & then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire.

These gatherings would be accompanied by a feast, and some of the food & drink would be offered to the aos sí. Doors, windows, byres & livestock would be decorated with yellow May flowers. They possibly did this because the yellow flowers evoked fire.

In parts of Ireland, people would make a May Bush: typically a thorn bush or branch decorated with flowers, ribbons, bright shells & rushlights. Holy wells were also visited, while Beltane dew was thought to bring beauty & maintain youthfulness.

• The aos sí (often referred to as spirits or faeries) were thought to be especially active at Beltane. Like Samhain, which lies directly opposite from Beltane on the Wheel of the Year, this was seen as a time when the veil between worlds was at its thinnest. At Samhain the veil between the worlds of the living & the dead is thin enough that we can connect & convene with our beloved dead, here at Beltane it’s the veil between the human world, & the world of faeries & nature spirits that has grown thin. Offerings would be left at the ancient faerie forts, the wells & in other sacred places in an effort to appease these nature spirits to ensure a successful growing season.

Other celebrations:

•  Rosealia- May 23rd

Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July. The observance is sometimes called a rosatio (“rose-adornment”) or the dies rosationis, “day of rose-adornment,” & could be celebrated also with violets. As a commemoration of the dead, the rosatio developed from the custom of placing flowers at burial sites. It was among the extensive private religious practices by means of which the Romans cared for their dead, reflecting the value placed on tradition (mos maiorum, “the way of the ancestors”), family lineage & memorials ranging from simple inscriptions to grand public works. Several dates on the Roman calendar were set aside as public holidays or memorial days devoted to the dead.

Roses had funerary significance in Greece, but were particularly associated with death & entombment among the Romans. In Greece, roses appear on funerary steles  & in epitaphs most often of girls. Flowers were traditional symbols of rejuvenation, rebirth &memory, with the red & purple of roses & violets felt to evoke the color of blood as a form of propitiation

Sources:

Farmersalmanac .com

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines

Wikipedia

Encyclopedia Britannica

A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs

Encyclopedia britannica

Llewellyn 2025 magical almanac Practical magic for everyday living

aianta.org/native-american-moon-names

Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials: Beltane

Happy Beltane magickal ones. Enjoy your blessed day 💗

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THE SABBATS

Eldrian (wounded in the haunted forest)

The art was made based on his history. After a war and a capture Eldrian finds himself in the haunted forest protected by the witch/wizard after he escaped feverish and wounded.

Made with low quality of color pencils, but I still think it's not that bad 🤔 maybe in a year or two I'll redraw it to see if it looks better.

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claimed by the sea 🔱

saw an absolutely hilarious animal crossing theory that i now 100% accept and it’s that in the animal crossing world, humans are going extinct, and so all the animals have locked you in an elaborate zoo enclosure and are trying to give you enrichment. and that’s why they give you infinite pointless tasks, hide money in trees and rocks, invented debt that doesnt matter etc. it’s why they always act so happy to see you even after you raze the entire island, relocate their houses twice, and always act so pleased about your choices no matter what. it’s all to keep their little endangered human healthy and enriched. and thinking of it this way has genuinely improved my experience of the game

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Lord Hypnos aesthetic

No croissants for you 😔❄️

screaming french snowmen

I adore this aesthetic ♡︎✧

lily’s home on nixie, with video bc the ✨vibes✨🌱🫧🍀