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Beltane: The Fire of Spring 🪷

Beltane is the peak of Spring and the beginning of the "Light Half" of the year. It is a festival of flowers, fertility, fire, and the exuberant return of life to the land.

To many pagans, Easter is not about a single story—but a celebration of the Earth’s awakening 🌸✨ It marks the turning of the wheel, when light triumphs over darkness and life begins to bloom again. Seeds stir, days grow longer, and the energy of renewal is everywhere.

The wheel turns. Day and night stand in perfect balance.

Light is growing. The earth is warming. Life is rising again—quietly, steadily, everywhere.

Ostara is the season of renewal.

Named for the dawn goddess Ēostre— of hares, eggs, and new beginnings— it marks the return of energy, growth, and possibility.

🌿 Themes of Ostara

Balance — light & dark, rest & action Growth — plant what you want to become Renewal — clear space, welcome the new Joy — step outside, feel the season shift

🥚 Simple ways to mark the day

Decorate eggs Plant seeds Open the windows Walk at sunrise Eat fresh, living food Light a candle at noon

🌞 A quiet invocation

Dawn goddess, bringer of light, Awaken what rests within me. Let me grow as the earth grows— steady, alive, and full of promise.

Spring is not coming. It’s here.

What will you grow with it?

I wrote the following in my Winter Solstice cards that went to family and friends this year: “As the darkness and cold deepen, a tiny light of hope comes to us on the winter solstice as the longest night ushers us toward longer days and eventually summer again. The cycle of the seasons continue, the ebb and flow of time will bring us back around. Sending you and yours Yuletide…

We have passed from early autumn, into late autumn marked by the passage of the fire festival and celebration of Samhuinn. It marks the halfway point between Alban Eluid or Alban Elfed and Alban Arthuan or Alban Arthan. Alban Elfed means “The Light of Water,” and is also known as the Autumn Equinox. Alban Arthuan is also known as the Winter Solstice or Yule. I made dandelion bitters for Samhuinn…

#WheelOfTheYear We’ve passed the autumn equinox, now the nights are longer than the days. The autumn winds are blowing, announcing the change of the season. The rains have started to return, quenching the earth after the parching of the summer. [Autumn Altar Ritual] I changed out the seasonal oracle cards (from Maia Toll’s Wild Wisdom Companion) to “The Elders,” “The Withdrawing,” and “The…