Today is the day of rebirth and renewal. But - or rather AND - I’ve been thinking about grief. Beltane is one of the cross-quarter festivals on the Wheel of the Year — sitting opposite Samhain - Halloween in the states - the festival of the dead. Where Samhain is the thinning of the veil for the ancestors, Beltane is the thinning of the veil for the spirits of life and love. BUT — they are connected. The cycle of the Wheel teaches us that life and death are never separate. To be fully alive, we must acknowledge what we have let die. Death is as much a part of life as life is. Beltane must carry the echo of grief, especially when we are calling in new beginnings, relationships, creative projects, or rebirth. The soil of fertility is grief. The fire of Beltane burns on the ashes of what has been released. Fire needs fuel. You feel this intuitively: - When you say yes to new life, you are often also saying goodbye to an old identity, old story, or old love. - The body’s readiness to receive new joy often requires the sacred space of emotional clearing. - Honor the grief you may feel about letting go of an old skin that you’ve been, that’s carried you - but now you’re carrying it. - Let it be the fuel for your fire or renewal. If you feel called, I invite you today to have a burn ceremony for yourself and for what you are releasing. Write it down, thank if for what it gave you and did for you. Say “this is the due for the fire of my renewal.” Recite your mantra you wrote yesterday. Feel it in your heart, in your cells. Know that it’s the quality birthing in you now. Love is. I am that. Be only love. Light is. I am that. Be only light. Powerful voice is. I am that. Be only powerful voice. Joy is. I am that. Be only Joy. Flow is. I am that. Be only flow. And presence is. Be only that. I am presence. It’s just as important to honor how you feel truly feel about this releasing, because there IS a grief in letting go of what was for the ego. But we have to release what was in order to embrace what is and in order to accept what wants to be given from your own soul. 🩵🔥🩵