Written by The fire festival at the height of spring. When the world tips toward abundance and the veil goes thin again.
May Day has a problem with its reputation. Most people associate it with either bank holidays or Soviet parades. But underneath both of those is something far older and considerably more interesting . A fire festival that the Celts considered one of the four hinge points of the year, a night when the world cracked open between winter’s end and summer’s beginning, and everything felt possible and a little dangerous all at once.
That festival is Beltane. And it deserves a proper introduction.