Beltane is the coming of Summer, in Earth and Sun, and within ourselves.

It is Life opening into full-flower.

It unfolds as we give ourselves over to the power of life and love within and without,

as we embrace who we are and what we are becoming.

It means seeing ourselves as children of this Universe.

It is knowing and celebrating Mother and Father, Lover and Beloved.

We come from Sky...never-ending naked Beauty,

cold, constant, white-hot, ever-changing.

We rise from Earth, she who gave birth to us

through seasons beyond count, beyond memory,

of hunger fed upon grief, of Life fed from Death.

We are nuclear Fire, woven into, giving voice and mind to matter,

to Universe drawn to and enmeshed in itself.

Without this burning light, we are iron, stone, sea and smoke...

blindly, silently whirling toward dissolution.

Without this dark, vast crystal of indrawn metal, sand and gas,

we are stillborn Dawn fading into night.

Together, we are Life, stretching downward, inward, upward, outward.

Life spun from sun and stone, wind, wave, time.

We are the offspring of Energy and Matter.

We weave leaf and flesh from light, rock, rain.

Sky and Earth are father and mother.

They, and We, are star-fire and mountain,

Hearth-fire and field, soul-fire and song.

They are Giving, Receiving, Creating.

To know them is to know ourselves.