Main Ritual Info for "Dance with the Ancestors" coming soon!!!
Please enjoy the description from our past
Beltaine 2008 in the meantime!
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii
The custom of wearing leis originated with the indigenous Hawaiians, who wove necklaces of leaves or ferns or sometimes strung dried shells, fruits, beads, or bright feathers for personal adornment. Leis were also given as greeting and as a gift upon departure from the island. In early 1928 writer and poet Don Blanding wrote an article in a local paper suggesting that a holiday be created centered around the Hawaiian custom of making and wearing lei. It was fellow writer Grace Tower Warren who came up with the idea of a holiday on May 1 in conjunction with May Day. The first Lei Day was held on May 1, 1928, and everyone in Honolulu was encouraged to wear lei. Festivities were held downtown with hula, music, lei making demonstrations and exhibits and lei making contests. Lei recaptured the old spirit of the islands (a love of color and flowers, fragrance, laughter and aloha). In 1929, Lei Day was made an official holiday in the territory. Everyone gives the gift of a lei to another, putting it around the receiver's neck and accompanying it with the traditional kiss. While leaving the island a traveler customarily tosses the farewell lei onto the harbor waters. The drift of the lei back to the shore indicates that the person will someday return to the islands.
Silver Rose, her friends from Synergy Circle, Earth Drum Tribe, and the FPG headliners will be presenting a ritual celebrating this custom and honoring the Goddess and Gods from the Hawaiian Pantheon.
This will be a ritual that blends the traditions of Wicca with a Polynesian theme. We will be walking through and jumping the traditional Beltane fires. We invite you to join in the “Aloha” spirit.
The Aloha Spirit is a well known reference to the attitude of friendly acceptance for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. However, it also refers to a powerful way to resolve to live.
In the Hawaiian language, aloha stands for much more than hello or goodbye or love. Its deeper meaning is the joyful (oha) sharing (alo) of life energy (ha) in the present (alo)
As you share this energy you become attuned to the Divine Power that the Hawaiians call mana. And the loving use of this incredible Power brings true health, happiness, prosperity and success.