Beltane - 1998 - Earth-Based Spirituality Group of BuxMont UU Fellowship
  written by Velvet

East, where Sun, Moon and Stars are born 
Spirit of air, blowing warm over our bare skin
Caress us,
Bless us with each fertile birth
Help us germinate like the seed
Help us blossom like the flower
Help us to enjoy the magic that dances in our bodies

Blessed Be

South, fiery, hot, passionate!
Burn in us, let us feel the heat of your flame
As the star wheel turns toward summer, 
Share your heat with air, with water and with earth
Caress us
Let us feel our own heat growing deep within
Teach us to share this magic heat as we join
Spirit to spirit and body to body

Blessed Be
 
West, liquid blood of Mother Earth,
Flow in us, course through our hearts, our bodies, our sex.
Move with the tides of passion, of sun, of moon, of fertility
Caress us
Wash us with the warm rains
Water the garden, the forest, the fields
Play with us as you play with all who are born of the Mother.

Blessed Be

North, dark cool night of magic and star dust
Sustain us with the strength of earth and stone.
Caress us
Envelop us with your dark fertile soil
Wrapped as a womb around seed and root.
Sustain us and all of life as we dance on your sacred flesh

Blessed Be

Spirit, lusty and raucous, come dance with us
Join with us as the pole joins with the mother
Caress us
Dance with us as we weave our ribbons
Sing and drum with us as we light the fires of spring
Open us to experience through our senses, 
Open us to each other in the world beyond words.
Help make this night, and all nights magical!

Blessed Be


Closing the Circle:

Spirit
Lusty raucous spirit thank you for dancing with us around the pole
You fill our drums, our hearts and our voices with magic
You open us to each other, and to the world beyond worlds
Hale and farewell!  

Blessed Be

North
Cool, dark North thank you for star dust and magic
You give us the strength of earth and stone
You envelop us and sustain us
Hale and farewell!

Blessed Be

West
Sweet liquid West, giver of rain
You help us feel the tides coursing though our bodies
You water and cleanse 
Hale and farewell!

Blessed Be

South
Passionate South, burning with desire
We have felt your fire rise within us and through us
Your magic tingles still in our hearts
Hale and farewell

Blessed Be

East
Nurturing East, midwife to the stars and moon
We have felt and smelled your sweet breath
Our buds blow in your wind, opening to blossom
Hale and farewell

Blessed Be