Bealtaine Hedge School - Returning to our Senses

Summer is coming and our next Hedge School Spiral responds to Bealtaine the cross-quarter celebration of the Celtic Wisdom Tradition. Bel-taine or bright fire celebrates the God Belous (Bright one) and welcomes the “rekindling” of the sun. This Celtic fire festival is a high holiday, a liminal time when the barriers between our world and the otherworld were thin. We mark the transition from winter to summer, from the dark to the bright half of the year. In many traditions and cultures, it is a time of divine union and fertility.

This portal ushers in the sensorial season of blossoming, aliveness, fullness, risk and opening. We welcome the masculine energy as necessary to ensure the flowering, ripening and harvesting of the seeds sown in the darker times of winter and spring.

At the Hedge School we will celebrate this point of seasonal and psychic transformation and explore the potency of expansion, risk and opening. As the great wheel turns we are invited to return to our senses and meet the invitation to be fully ALIVE within our cells/selves and the natural world. As we cross this threshold we will explore what wants to blossom and open for us at The Hedge School as ancestors-in-training. 

Our inspiration for the Bealtaine Hedge School Spiral weaves the cultural threads of belonging, place, activism, creative imagination, indigenous wisdom and the living world. We will explore these themes from Irish and global perspectives as some of the burning issues on our world stage right now.