Queries for Beltane / May Day

I'm facilitating a year-long group, Personal Growth on the Wheel of the Year, from Fall Equinox 2025 to Fall Equinox 2026.  

We're meeting for Beltane / May Day in the northern hemisphere this week.  

It's half-way between Spring Equinox, when the days and nights are close to equal, and Summer Solstice, which is the longest day -- the day with the most hours of light -- and the shortest night -- the night with the fewest hours of darkness.  It can often really feel like Spring is springing forth! 

May Day is also a workers' holiday -- a time of solidarity, and of resistance to exploitation.  Solidarity forever! 

One Beltane tradition is the weaving of the May Pole -- a tall pole we adorn with ribbons which we then weave together, often while singing songs. 

At Beltane in Roses, Too! Tradition, while we weave the May Pole, we focus on what we are weaving into our lives and into our communities, and the small actions we take, individually and together, to resist oppression -- and, especially right now, the rising tide of fascism.  

And so I share these queries for Beltane / May Day:

• What are the markers of Spring you are noticing where you are?
• What are you weaving into your life this Beltane?
• What are we weaving into our communities this Beltane?
• What acts of resistance are we weaving into our lives, individually and collectively?

a tall pole stretching up to the sky, with three sprigs of lilac at the top, and many colourful ribbons -- especially yellow, light blue, and dark blue -- against a sunny blue sky, with tall evergreens in the background.
May Pole from Ravenna Ravine Beltane 2009, (c) Stasa Morgan-Appel