Walpurgis Night / Beltane is the bright, fertile creative counterpart to Samhain While Samhain is associated with the dark half of the year, death, and the ancestors May 1 marks the veil thinning in the opposite direction toward light, life, libido and creative energy as summer begins the strengthening sun and blooming nature stir “Concupiscence” and vitality....
Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis, where that vital creative energy is invoked and worked with rather than repressed goats and rabbits are classically associated with Beltane or wapuris night for exactly this reason... Fertile energy or in other words Creative magickal current... It even relates to passion of the Great Rite which is the symbolic union of the God and Goddess...
The Persephone/Demeter/Hecate folklore at Its Core persephone is abducted by Hades into the underworld.
Her mother Demeter goddess of grain and agriculture, grieves so intensely that the earth becomes barren...
Hecate often as torch bearer, guide, or crone aspect assists in the search or mediates.
Persephone’s eventual return or partial return restores fertility, growth, and abundance to the earth... This myth was the heart of the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries secret initiation rites promising a blessed afterlife and direct experience of the cycle of death and rebirth... It aligns perfectly with Beltane/Walpurgis Night as the bright fertile counterpart to the darker ancestral focus of the earth “waking up"....
Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis, where that vital creative energy is invoked and worked with rather than repressed goats and rabbits are classically associated with Beltane or wapuris night for exactly this reason... Fertile energy or in other words Creative magickal current... It even relates to passion of the Great Rite which is the symbolic union of the God and Goddess...
The Persephone/Demeter/Hecate folklore at Its Core persephone is abducted by Hades into the underworld.
Her mother Demeter goddess of grain and agriculture, grieves so intensely that the earth becomes barren...
Hecate often as torch bearer, guide, or crone aspect assists in the search or mediates.
Persephone’s eventual return or partial return restores fertility, growth, and abundance to the earth... This myth was the heart of the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries secret initiation rites promising a blessed afterlife and direct experience of the cycle of death and rebirth... It aligns perfectly with Beltane/Walpurgis Night as the bright fertile counterpart to the darker ancestral focus of the earth “waking up"....