02/05/2021
Happy Bealtaine! Such a beautiful ceremony with Cacao, Crystals & Crowns ❤️ Singing Bowl Sounds & Sage added serenity, as we welcomed in a new dawn ✨❤️🔥
Traditionally, Bealtaine celebrated the end of the dark half of the year and the coming of the light half of the year, as well as the start of the harvesting season. It was the biggest and most important festival of the whole year and was not only celebrated by Irish Celts, but also in Scotland and the Isle of Man. Celebrating Bealtaine involved many rituals, most of them involving fire, which is why the festival is sometimes known as the Celtic Fire festival. Even the name Bel Taine translates into ‘bright fire’. The focal point of the festival was bonfires, the source of the fire used in all of the rituals and the central point for the celebrations.
Just like Samhain, at Bealtaine, fairies and supernatural beings were said to be particularly active. Various practices were undertaken to ensure they weren’t offended or caused no more trouble than usual, although the risk was not as great as at Samhain, when supernatural forces could freely pass in and out of the mortal world.
Irish mythology attests that there were three groups of people who invaded Ireland during Bealtaine. The most significant invasion was by the Memedians, whose leader Mide immediately went to the hill of Uisneach and built a fire that lasted for seven years to claim the land as his own. Since then, Uisneach has been the site of all important religious events, while the other prestigious ceremonial site, the Hill of Tara, was reserved for Samhain celebrations.
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