Beltane
May Day
May 1
Waxing Moon Moon Phase...Second Quarter
Moon Sign...Gemini
Color...Yellow
Incense...Dill
Birthstone...Emerald
Flowers...Lilies of the Valley, Hawthorne
Beltane,(also known as May Day)has long been marked with feasts and rituals.
May poles, supremely phallic symbols, were the focal point of old English village rituals.
Many persons rose at dawn to gather flowers and green branches from the fields and gardens,
using them to decorate the May pole, their homes and themselves.
The flowers and greenery symbolize the Goddess; the May pole the God.
Beltane marks the return of vitality, of passion and hopes consummated.
May poles are sometimes used by Wiccans today during Beltane rituals,
but the cauldron is a more common focal point of ceremony.
It represents, of course, the Goddess-the essence of womanhood, the end
of all desire, the equal but opposite of the May pole, symbolic of the God.
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