Correspondences for Bealtinne

• Celebrated on the 30^th of April or the 1^st or 5^th of May, depending on Tradition
• Also known as May Day, Walpurgisnacht, Walpurgis Eve, May Eve, Roodmas, and Celtic Summer
• Bealtinne is the time to�
  • Celebrate the union of the God and Goddess in Sacred Marriage
  • Celebrate the new life all around you as the plants and trees awaken after their winter's slumber
  • Plant the seeds blessed at Ostara
• Called Rudemas in the Mexican Craft traditions
• Fertility Festival
• Traditional colors used at this time are red and white
• Traditional time for bonfires to be burned
• Cross-Quarter festival, falling between Ostara and Midsummer
• Traditional Incense: frankincense, lilac, and rose
• Traditional candle colors: dark green, red, and white
• Traditional gemstones: emerald, orange carnelian, sapphire, rose quartz
• Traditional foods: red fruits, herbal salads, red or pink wine punch, Bealtinne cakes
• Traditional herbs: almond, angelica, ash tree, bluebells, cinquefoil, daisy, frankincense, hawthorn, ivy, lilac, marigold, meadowsweet, primrose, rose, satyrion root, woodruff, yellow cowslips
• Traditional animals: goats, rabbits, honeybees
• Suggested decorations: Hawthorn, honeysuckle, St. John's wort, woodruff, all flowers, eggs, Maypoles, butterchurns, flower chaplets, and May baskets
• Suggested activities: Morris dances, dancing around the Maypole, gathering flowers, enacting the Great Rite
• Attunement Teas: burdock, damiana, hibiscus, rose hips, saffron
• Ritual Oils: passionflower, rose, tuberose, vanilla
• Mythical creatures: Faeries, Pegasus, satyrs, giants
• Key Action: Take action
• Taboos: giving away fire, sleeping away from home, neglecting animals
• Goddesses of Bealtinne:
  • All Fertility Goddesses
  • All Flower Goddesses
  • All Goddesses of Song & Dance
  • All Goddesses of the Hunt
  • All Virgin-Mother Goddesses
  • Aphrodite (Phoenician)
  • Ariel (English)
  • Artemis (Greek)
  • Asherah (Hebrew)
  • Baubo (Greek)
  • Belili (Mesopotamian)
  • Bloddeuwedd (Welsh)
  • Bona Dea (Roman)
  • Chung-Mu (Chinese)
  • Cupra (Etruscan)
  • Cybele (Greek)
  • Damara (English)
  • Danu (Celtic)
  • Devana (Slavic)
  • Diana (Greek)
  • Erzulie (Voodun)
  • Fand (Manx-Irish)
  • Flidais (Irish)
  • Flora (Roman)
  • Freya (Norse)
  • Gwenhwyvar (Welsh)
  • Hilaria (Greek)
  • Hina (Polynesian)
  • Ilamatecuhtli (Aztec)
  • Ishtar (Semitic)
  • Kaikibani (Polynesian)
  • Kwan Yin (Chinese)
  • Lofn (Norse)
  • Mawu (African)
  • Mielikki (Finnish)
  • Oshun (African)
  • Ostara (German)
  • Perchta (Slavic)
  • Prithvi (Hindu)
  • Rainbow Snake (Aboriginal)
  • Rhea (Greek)
  • Rhiannon (Welsh)
  • Sarbanda (Babylonian)
  • Sheila-na-gig (Irish)
  • Skadi (Teutonic)
  • Spider Woman (Native American)
  • Tonantzin (Mexican)
  • Tuulikki (Finnish)
  • Var (Norse)
  • Venus (Roman)
  • Xochiqueztal (Aztec)

• Gods of Bealtinne:
  • All Fertility Gods
  • All Gods of Love
  • All Gods of the Hunt
  • All Young Father Gods
  • Arthur (Welsh-Cornish)
  • Baal (Phoenician)
  • Bel (Celtic)
  • Belanos (Celtic)
  • Beltene (Irish-Scottish)
  • Cernunnos (Greco-Celtic)
  • Chors (Slavic)
  • Cupid (Roman)
  • Eros (Greek)
  • Faunus (Roman)
  • Frey (Norse)
  • The Great Horned God (European)
  • Herne (Greek)
  • Lono (Polynesian)
  • Manawyddan (Welsh)
  • Orion (Greco-Arabic)
  • Pan (Greek)
  • Puck (English)
  • Robin Goodfellow (English)
  • Telipinu (Hittite)

• Suggested chant by Shekinah Mountainwater:
  "We are the flow, we are the ebb.
  We are the weavers, we are the web.
  We are the weavers, we are the web.
  We are the spider, we are the thread.
  We are the spider, we are the thread.
  We are the Witches, back from the dead."
• Bealtinne Incense:
  • 3 parts Frankincense
  • 2 parts Sandalwood
  • 1 part Sweet Woodruff, 1 part Rose petals, a few drops Yarrow oil
  • a few drops Orange oil