Challenge Entry
Last night i wrote out the starts to my book of Beltane. I got most of the correspondances and ways to celebrate in. So now its a matter of figuring out what i want to do for the challenge. Im working extra day this week and its all in a row whuch with extra day lasy week too ( my time off n recovery feels like its being undone in two weeks of morecwork than normal but im hanhing in there)ā¦ but it means ill need to try get it done today if im going to do anything. Im sore and exhausted already and just glad i dont need to leave the house today at all. But lots to do. Im thinking maybe as been really getting into my divination and self reflection i might look through the Beltane spreads ive pinned on pinterest. Maybe look at what crystals i wrote in my book of beltane and carry or maybe do meditation with crystals. Or maybe update altar space. Maybe look at inner temple and see what can do there.
Its weird cause at work we are looking at halloween coming up abd making decorarions for that but we are in Beltane season cause in southern hemisphereā¦ but i know in my head its cause opposite ends of wheel cause south and north hemispheres.
I know when wrote how to celebrate beltane there were a few ideas i liked liked planting seedsor go for nature walk or picnic. I was thinkung maybe kings park for picnic n nature walk but id have to go after challenge is done. But the seeds, i can do. N maybe replant my sunflower plant. Ive done others and they are growing so well. I cant wait till flowers show. Im excited. Maybe since theyve been ones to grow the best i could plant some more sunflower seeds. I love idea of sunflower garden even uf they are all individual recycled tin jar things. My other plants are going ok too but i might need a bigger bed to replant them in to put them in if replant. They are in glass jars as planted them in cotton balls to begun with.
Lol i feel like because halloween is celebrated accross the world at this time of year im almost celebrating samhain at work through halloween stuff ( which we have been makibg crafts and exploring songs and the theme) and beltane at homeā:joy:. No im not confused at all. Lol wgen we did black cats i was meowing like cat but then one of kids said no your a dog. I was like oh i must be having an identity crisis then. Lol then they said i was a butterfly and then some other animal i cant remember the last oneā¦ but tgen i joked that oh i must be really confused then cause im not sure what animal i am. Lol i can do realistic animals especially my dog bark ( which i joke i often think i must of been a dog in previous life but i do wonder )ā¦ thats why they said i was a dog, its a nicknane i have and i joke i will habe it written on my tombtone. Which im ok with, i like my nickname. Lol but yeah i digress. Tommorow i rhink i had planned for making bats for halloween display. One person had suggested witches (wasnt even me) maybe can make some little brooms and witches hats. And read Room of the broom. Thats a good story. Ill have to look at what else to doā¦ we have done ghosts, pumpkins, black cats and spiders. Ill just need two other things to do. . Ooh skeletons. Hmm ill have to think bout the last one. I cant really talk about the veil being thinner at this time as they are too young for that. Cauldronā¦ witches cauldron. Ive been using finch app and they had a cauldron. Lol in a way i am able to celebrate both sabbats onevat home and one at work but with work in my head its samhain connection but outward be halloween because it needs to be ok for kids. And i cant openly practice outside home. I have one person a best friend who knows and my psych but its not safe to tell ppl outside of the comnunity and coven/family here. And while i know in southern hemisphere its not tecnically samhain its beltane, i also acknowledge that in the land of my ancestors who are from tge north hemisphere its is samhain. Which is one thing that the research on celebrating beltane said, one was to show respect to ancestors or sonething along those lines. I havent done much ancestor work yet, i dont know where to start and i worry if any of them dont approve of my path or practice would they come afyer me?? But i can at least show respect for tge land they come from in acknowledging both sabbats from where i live and where ancestors cone from such as Icelandic i think its called. The place around where norse lived, but i know i get some of tge place names mixed upā¦ its like norway and the place which starts with i lol but i cant think if the name right now , and uk. I also saw i had at least one anvestor from north america. But mostly england and scotland, little german but also around the place i cant think of its norway and i ā¦
Anyways lots of ideasā¦ maybe a way to tie both sabbats in for this challenge is to show respect and acknoeledhe land of ancestors(way to celebrate beltane) by tie in samhain (that which northern hemisphere are celebrating) with my Beltane celebrations. Even if around sabbat mainly focus on sabvat of land live in, i can still show respect for and acknowledge the land of ancestors for this timw of year. Ill have a think n post when ive figure it out lol my heads got so many ideas at the moment