Beautiful. Thank you for honoring this sacred turn of the wheel. According to a seanchi (storyteller) I was listening to yesterday, in rural Ireland farmers would walk their land with Gorse or yellow primrose petals on Bealtaine and place them at the 4 corners/boundaries as protection/blessing. They would also look for signs of that a neighbor had buried a dead lamb or calf or rotted eggs on their property to sabotage their luck. I would love the see the big Bealtaine fire ritual on the Hill of Uisneach one day...
“In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind.”
Very interesting - and I especially loved reading your final 2 paragraphs - beautiful words and a belief that accords with mine. Thank you!
Beautiful. Thank you for honoring this sacred turn of the wheel. According to a seanchi (storyteller) I was listening to yesterday, in rural Ireland farmers would walk their land with Gorse or yellow primrose petals on Bealtaine and place them at the 4 corners/boundaries as protection/blessing. They would also look for signs of that a neighbor had buried a dead lamb or calf or rotted eggs on their property to sabotage their luck. I would love the see the big Bealtaine fire ritual on the Hill of Uisneach one day...
“In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind.”
John Stow, Survey of London (1603)