Beltane Blessings Dear Ones

Beltane, sometimes called May Day marks the exact mid point between spring and summer. Beltane loosely means bright fire. Bel is a Celtic God whose inner fire or Spirit, was so bright and shiny that their Light radiated out like 10,000 suns.

We all have this divine spark of spirit and Beltane reminds us to keep our inner fires bright and use them for creativity, transformation, and healing.

In the Gaelic tradition, as with most ancient, earth-centered, wisdom traditions, it was customary to honor the changing of the seasons. Beltane is the peak of spring-when spring is feeling like it pushed all its little Imbolc seeds into full grown teenagers, who then begin to fully blossom open as we come into summer, the next turn of the wheel.

Instead of using the traditional cross of 4 seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall-which is a very linear or masculine approach, The Celtic tradition adds in the quarter seasons too, so instead of a square of four seasons, it becomes a wheel of continuous change, which is very feminine and flowy.

On the opposite side of the seasonal wheel of Beltane, is Samhain- or Halloween. At both of these turning points on the wheel the veil is thin between the two worlds. That means we can more easily receive our cosmic downloads or spiritual attunements, or we may experience a sudden shift in our consciousness or awareness, that feels elevated. The first is the world of Spirit or Light Consciousness, and the second is the world of Matter or dense consciousness.

Beltane welcomes in growth, abundance, fecundity, and purification. Halloween lets go of the old, or is the death of things. Both equally celebrated as important parts of our soul’s evolution.

The May Pole is symbolic of our own personal spiritual power coming up our spine through our central channel called sushumna. This power is called kundalini energy or Shakti. This is what makes you so uniquely you. Its your divine superpowers that hold all your potential. And when our kundalini awakens, it splits into two channels of energy, often depicted as two snakes: the masculine snake and the feminine snake. These two snakes criss-cross up the central channel piercing open each of the 7 chakras-as they rise from the root to the 3rd eye center, where they then merges back into one snake at our forehead.

We have seen this imagery in the western symbol for medicine-the caduceus, which is depicted as a staff with the serpents rising up and emerging at the top- like the one we see on ambulances- it symbolizes health and well being.

In other words, when we awaken our inner fire and let it rise through our central channel it opens and activates our full potential and gifts. Our soul lights up, and we shine like Bel.

So as we make this turn on the wheel of our lives, we can take a pause and look within ourselves and see if we have done all the we need to do to keep our fires stoked and ready for this time of growth, prosperity, abundance, and also great change and shift. Our fires must be strong to navigate through all the ways that this strong force of energy will carry us.

We are stepping into a warp speed of radical transformation. Time and reality are going through such an intense shift and we are going to feel like life is flying by. It can be unsettling if you aren’t attunded to the energies at play. You have actually been preparing for this time your whole life-but you might not realize it. Your soul is ready to step into warp speed. This is the point where we will be tested of our courage, discipline, and devotion-thats where our inner fire comes in.

The web of life is our collective consciousness-and people are beginning to awaken to the deeper more meaningful parts of themselves, making our way from the dense matter consciousness of duality and competition to the higher levels of light consciousness or lovingkindness and unity consciousness.

People are rapidly waking up. It might not seem like it because the news on your television and electonic devices is not showing you all the epiphanies and revelations that people are having about their existence, and how they are making huge shifts in their lives so they can walk a path of authenticity, love, and truth. So many of you are stepping out of your world of mundane security and going into the wild unknown trusting yourself and Great Spirit to find your way hOMe. Deep bow to the many of you I am witnessing in our community taking a leap of faith on their True Self. As Gil Scott Heron said, “The revolution will not be televised.”

When we do the work to keep our inner fires bright, things like speaking our truth, being of service to others, purifying the mind, caring for our body, letting our actions stem from the heart, then our inner fires will blaze and we awaken our kundalini. Meditate, pray and chant. Let your creativity express itself as much as you can. Discipline your desires so that you are the master and they are the servant. Let only truth leave your lips, and invite Love to take up full residence in your hearts. Its the only way going forward.

Your center is the safest place to be when the world feels like it spinning out of control. It is the still point. It is the calm. Its the eye of the storm. Use the strength of your own Bright Fire, to attune to the higher callings of Spirit. The way to navigate through this radical time of collective transformation and change is to find our inner fire and ride that tiger.

Our lunar and solar channels, or the feminine and masculine snakes, called Ida and Pingula in Sanskrit, are intertwining and awakening all our potential energy, as they rise up our “maypole’-called sushumna nadi, or our central channel.

This is the sacred heiros gamos or divine marriage which symbolizes consummating the union of our whole self. When we unite our masculine and the feminine, and our spiritual and the material existence, we become our whole self, or Holy Self.

Shine like 10,000 suns my friends. In that way, we will be lighthouses to each other on the sea of uncertainty and flux. All the intensity is here to dissolve that which no longer supports our existence, and unfortunately, some people are gripping hard to the old ways of being right now. Let go of those old patterns. Rigidity will damn the flow of our progress and purpose. If we want to grow and prosper as a people, we must turn to our inner fire.

May your fires of spirit be bright. May you follow the Light of your heart. May you prosper in Love, Health, and Well-being.

Happy Beltane.

Hope to see you at the Maypole.

The Light in me, honors the Light in each of you.

Namaste,

Katrina