May Day!

Well here we are, not quite May Day / Beltane but I, like most people these days got to enjoy most of Beltane out of my office window, though we did light a candle and say a whole load of thanks on our dog walk last night.

Beltane is my very favourite festival. Maybe even more than Christmas though the two are worlds apart. Christmas for us is about family and friends an insular time of year to bring light in darkness. Beltane is about celebration and joy to be celebrated with others but to me, more celebrated with nature. I want to be basking in sunshine, prancing through fields, diving into cold water, plunging my fingers into the soil as I dig and plant. And if I didn’t celebrate the turning of the year, if I just appreciate that it was nice and sunny I would miss all of that. I would miss the depth and the pause and the absolutely ridiculous amounts of joy.

Last year in amongst a huge amount of anxiety and work I forgot to stop, I knew it was the day but my mind was full I did not have the capacity for pausing or joy. Reflecting back, that is so sad and it would have helped so much.

So as I sit here on a log, in the last corner of the garden to get sunshine on this nearly May Day, I could not be more grateful that I have stopped and I have celebrated and in doing so, I have found myself again.