I'll be picking up the girls around 6, we'll eat, then we'll head outside while the pies are being baked. My boyfriend's family are being insanely gracious and helping me out / letting me host it in our backyard. I'm going to try to find a way to rig up some music for us, and... yeah!
I'm a little breathy, smell like dirt, a little scatterbrained -- just spent a good bit outside, gathering up fallen branches and dried pine needles, building up our fire in the pit. Hopefully it'll stay lit for more than a few minutes at a time! I have four bits of ribbon for us. Fuchsia, royal blue, pearly white, and lush green. Very Spring-y colors, nice and lively.
I'm a little sad to say that I couldn't do a big meal for us like I'd planned, but I just haven't had work in a while. (Everyone is having fiscal troubles, eh?) But! We'll be having pizza instead, which isn't too bad an alternative. Who doesn't like pizza? We'll drink water and raspberry tea...
Whelp. I'll update in a few hours -- maybe in the morning -- on how everything goes.
Happy Beltane all!
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About 12 hours and a fantastic night later, here I am!
Picked up the girls as I said I would and it turned out they had made some goodies for all of us. Lemon thyme bars, nutmeg cookies, and a salad with almonds and strawberries topped in a raspberry vinaigrette -- all of which was freakin' delicious, of course. We chowed down on pizza, talked and relaxed for a little bit. On my way upstairs to grab our ribbons, my boyfriend's mother and I started talking. She ended up giving us a staff that she'd received from a seer friend of hers to use as our Maypole.
Excited, we headed outside and prepped our ribbons, writing our hopes for the year and each other on them. We each had our different colors, but the thick green one was for all of us as a whole. We huddled around it and took turns writing on it. Once all of the ribbons were attached to the staff, we lit up our bonfire.
Our timing was fantastic. The sun was just dipping beneath the trees, painting the sky radiant pinks and oranges. As the flames licked up the sides of the logs, we circled the maypole, our ribbons creating a colorful swirl about it. At the end, we tied them all together to keep them in place, and laughed. We were dizzy but we were happy.
We left the maypole in the ground and spent the rest of the night nibbling on freshly baked apple pie and the other treats that we'd made. Talking to each other, laughing, making future plans. My boyfriend and his brother joined us. We took 136 pictures all together, half of which came out looking horribly demonic because the camera didn't know how to function around a fire...
We ended up making the girls little beds in our room. We took them home around 11.
It was so much fun. I can't wait for our next get-together.
Midsummer, here we come? haha
I hope your Beltane was as wonderful as ours. Blessed be!
Humbly,
Shannon Grey
P.S. The veil between the worlds is thinner on Beltane, right? Spirits and fae poke about curiously, causing mischief and taking part in the festivities, spreading their own ideas of merriment. -- Well. The wind was definitely playful with the energy of the evening. Numerous times we would attempt to do things, such as pouring cinnamon over the bonfire, or we would say something silly, and it would whip up, dancing all around us or send the smoke billowing in our direction.
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