How to celebrate Beltane | Magical ideas for Walpurgisnacht celebration
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Celebrate Beltane and Walpurgisnacht with me :)
00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is Beltane
02:02 How to make a DIY flower crown
03:56 Beltane love Oracle
04:38 DIY Beltane spell bag for sweet dreams
07:50 Connecting with plant spirit
09:48 Firy trees: Hawthorn & Blackthorn
11:16 My lazy witch garden
12:56 Green witch herb salt
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Recipe herb salt
500 g sea salt
200 g fresh herbs of choice
Blend with a food processor or mortar and pestle and let air-dry completely on a sheet. Store in an airtight container for several months.
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The handmade foraging bag and the beautiful handmade journal are both from the lovely Erin at
www.lunarynncraftory.com/
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I took you up on your offer…thank you!!❤
I'm definitely interested
Happy Beltane! So happy you addressed the idea of letting our gardens/lawn do their natural thing. Here in Michigan, U.S.A., I live in a lovely wooded area where lush green, weed-free lawns are highly prized. A few years back, a neighbor began transitioning her lawn to a more natural, self sustaining landscape. The neighborhood thought it was crazy and everyone talked about it. Several years on, the pine trees she planted have grown and the ground covering has spread and filled in and it looks so natural and beautiful! This inspired a few more neighbors to begin transitioning their lawns as well, and they are having equally wonderful results. This inspired me to try the same. It is more difficult because I have over an acre of grassy front, but I am going to start with my flower beds and go from there. The neighbors shared that it is a process and can look not-so-lovely at first-just be patient and lend a helping hand to cultivate and guide without really interfering. I love how one person can start a whole new way of thinking and doing. That is what you are to me, Bex. Your videos inspire and motivate me to step outside my usual way of thinking and try something new. I think that is definitely in the spirit of this celebration, and embodies the significance of Beltane❤
Awwwww this made me so happy to read! So glad that your neighbour set a trend - it is really much less work in the end and additionally to being kind to the environment it also looks lovely!
I agree with you and I love that you're doing this. It's a magical thing and I wish you the best. 🙂🌱
Just wanted to say hi! I'm also in Michigan. I love this state and the variety of wildlife we have❤
Im in Michigan too 🥰
Your videos are a welcome oasis in this capitalist hellscape. Even when I can't do much due to my disabilities, your videos make me feel connected to these special days. Thank you for all you do! Danke schön!
Awww I am so happy they provide that for you - the world can be crazy at times 🥴 have a happy Beltane ❤️
groove on sister moon
Fuck capitalism
BEALTAINE BLESSINGS!YES IT WAS A LONG BATTLE TO PROTECT THE SACRED TREE!BUT WORTH IT!VERY PROUD WHENEVER WE PASS IT!🎉🎉
I am still working on re-working the wheel of the year for myself (as a Sceptic Atheist witch) and I was pondering on what I'm going to do on May first. Did some scrolling on the internet and thought, hmm, maybe The Witches Cookery has a nice video for some inspo. And lo and behold, you posted one 7 minutes ago! So that is going in the To Watch list for tonight!
I'm from Belgium so it's so nice to have someone with a germanic (vs angelsaksen or us) background, AND with a focus on folk and herbal practices. And on top of that ALSO very SASS (Sceptic, Atheist Agnostic Science Seeking) friendly.
Much love!
Oh yaih! So happy you find it helpful - I already have quite a few videos on Beltane (from previous years) - so lots of inspiration and information there. This one has lots of plant lore in it too ☺️❤️ have a beautiful Beltane!
Because of Dr chiche the extraordinary spell caster for joining my family back, I can't communicate how I feel now, He advised me to have confidence and accept and I did now my family is back and I'm exceptionally content with my loved ones
What I find fascinating: I grew up Catholic, but have always been drawn towards Pagan Culture and Religion my entire life and it's just not going away. Guess I will have to embrace it instead of shoving it away. I wanna celebrate Beltane in the Harz Region just once in my life, because it looks really cool.
May All your weeds be wildflowers!!!
Love that!!
I love your wisdom and humor. My inner lazy witch honors your inner lazy witch! 😂 Happy Beltane!
Happy Beltane to another lazy witch 😄
Blessed Beltane from Seattle USA! This video reminds me of how I used to make necklaces out of clover blossoms when I was a little kid back in Maryland. Recently, I've been collecting sprigs of cedar in my neighborhood to dry in a hanging basket, and burn later (part of my research in how Europeans purify their space with things other than white sage). I also still have memories of how I constantly played with bugs and caterpillars as a child, when I wasn't climbing trees around my house. Anyway, happy May Day to you and your family from Seattle! :)
Beltane is moving day for me. After 10 years of apartment/house hopping I finally have a stable home of my own! Fallen blossoms remind me of every possible dream someone could have in the world. One of mine coming true! I didnt know the name of the purple nettle until this video, let alone that it was edible! There are so many on my island, along with other edible discoveries, i'm sure! Happy Beltane !! Can't wait to gather and dry my beltane bundle this year. last year's smelt, AMAZING!! when i burned it on Mabon
Oh that is amazing!!! Congratulations 🎉 I hope you settle in well - and get to explore what edible treasures grow close by 😄 happy Beltane!
❤ thank you for your beautiful videos. I love your ideas and tips.
So happy you like it! ❤️
Bex, this was so delightful! It felt so uplifting and cheerful from the first music notes .
Loved all of your content. Sweet that your little man helped you pick dandelions! They are a magical favorite of mine.
Thanks for everything blessed beltane.
The collecting of a certain amount of flowers is a tradition we have here in Sweden, but we do it when we celebrate Midsummer! I think its 7 different flowers and we put it under our pillow to dream about who will be sour soulmate. I´ve done it once and I just dreamt about flowers x)
Your videos are so professional. It’s like watching a an actual T.V show. How do you create such amazing videos? Do you have a background in T.V production. So satisfying.
Oh that is such a huge compliment! Thank you ☺️💚 my professional background is in psychology - so I just aim the camera at stuff and hope for the best really 😅
@@Thewitchescookery Well you do an amazing job. Absolute perfection and so well presented. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your art.
We’re still thawing 😭. That looks so wonderful. I’ll have to wait for lughnasadh when I have flowers of my own grown to make this crown. This is such a wonderful video
Here spring also had a slllloooow start! The blossoms literally just opened the other day. Sending Beltane blessings your way ❤
I can totally relate to this. We're still getting the occasional snowfall, and I don't think the trees even have buds yet. We had a very frigid winter here. I hope the flowers bloom soon for you. 🌱💐
@@Greye13 we’re have a very unusual heat wave coming through this weekend . I am so excited …. So I can regrow grass 😒 😂. The doggo burns the grass and the condo will be mad . But we still anticipate a few rain sleet storms and snow fall 3rd week of may for the long weekend campers. 😆. Thank you so much for the empathy. May Day Blessings your way 💚
@@returntoohm7348 So glad you're getting a bit of warmth finally. It's certainly been some strange weather in recent years. That's nature for you though. Sure keeps us on our toes. I hope you have a great Beltaine as well. Thank you.🌱
I’m so glad I found this channel. Love the humor and practicality.
So happy to hear! 🤗❤️
Happy Beltane! ❤❤❤❤
And to you!!
Tomorrow is my fathers birthday. We had no relationship when I was a child and not much now but he does appreciate the natural world. He gave me 200 bucks in March for my birthday and I used it all to buy flowers. Unfortunately tomorrow Ill be spending 6am to 5pm in a dark sad factory. Im just starting my witchcraft journey so next year Ill have better plans.
Loved the video. Your place you live is lovely.
Happy Beltaine and healing and peace for your walpurgesnacht
I don't even want to discuss the day I've had, but, thank you so much for this video. It was much needed.❤
So sorry you had a 💩day! Hope today will be much better
It’s videos like this that made me become a Patreon member. As a mom of two young kids as well I’m in awe of the fact you’re able to put together such great, knowledgeable, creative content that’s edited well. I have two degrees in art and digital media and run a design studio, I know ALL the effort you’re putting in and I appreciate it. Gut gemacht!
I’m doing something similar this year, journaling EVERYTHING that pops up in my garden, drawing them and/or pressing them in the book.
i love your videos! i have germanic heritage but due to family estrangement i’ve grown up completely disconnected from the traditions and rituals my ancestors practiced. it always made me sad until i started developing my own practice and felt connected to the unknown generations that came before me. i’m excited to officially celebrate beltane for the first time this year. thank you for the inspiration!
Lol, I love Dandelions, they're one of my favorite "flowers" ever, and useful for so many things. I have never considered them weeds. That's why I chose it as my profile pic. Daisies are another favorite, and Hawthorne berries make a wonderful tea. 🙂 Also, I too do not like ornate, sculptured, and 'sterile' yards. Nature is quite beautiful just the way it is, wild and rambling. I find it depressing that so many people call so many beautiful plants, toxic and invasive species, and they want to eradicate them completely. It's an insult to the earth itself and shows their ingratitude, for what has been freely given them to use. Well, all that aside, I wish everyone the most magical Beltaine/Walpurgisnacht. Many Beltaine blessings and best wishes. 🌱 🌻🌸🌷🌺🌼🌹💮🌿
Love the celebration!
Thank you for saying that about just letting plants go wild and grow.
Not only is it important for the bees and environment but it also looks nice 😄🌿
Your videos are always a perfect combination of science-compatible and spiritually inspirational.
Like many others here, just watching a new entry is enough to make me happy even after a bad day. Thank you Bex!
Goodluck with the retreat! Hope you all have a fun time! Can't wait to see what you guys get up to xxx
Thaaaank you!!! I am so excited for it 🔥🔥🔥
Loved this video thank you for the ideas
I too have a love for nature doing its own thing in my yard 😊. My goal is to fill my yard with everything but grass. With the changing climate, grass requires too much work to maintain. There's so many cool plants that don't mind the heat and less water. I wish we could have chickens in town, but not allowed as they are considered livestock. I am jealous though... you have growing in your yard my favourite flower. Pretty little purple violets. Smell so wonderful. Can't find seeds or plants anywhere. I would so plant them in a protected spot to help them survive our harsh winters here in north-east Alberta. Hoping soon with the sudden warmer weather, we will get dandelions going so the bees will come back 😁. Happy Spring to you ❤
Thank you : )
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Thank you for a super video. Merry Beltane 🌼
Your little boy is so cute🤗 Loved the video, Happy Beltane 💓🌼🌿
Thank you 😄 happy Beltane ❤️
@@Thewitchescookery You're welcome 🌞🌷
Great video! Excited for your BEES!!! 🐝
Excellent-Thanks!
Thanks 🤗
I absolutely love your videos and how informative they are! Greetings from Austria and happy Beltane :D
So happy to hear that! Happy Beltane, neighbour 😄🙌🔥❤️
Happy Beltaine! 🌼🌱💐
And to you ☺️🔥
Happy Beltane to you 🎉💐🌺🌸🌷🌼 I truly enjoy your videos and your positivity that shines through.
And to you!! So glad you enjoyed it 💚✨🔥💐
I completely agree…I’m not fond of manicured lawns either….mine is now a menagerie of dandelion, clover, chickweed, sweet woodruff, thyme and whatever else finds its way to its stomping grounds…. And I absolutely invite and encourage bees, spiders, insects and worms etc…to its buffet :0)
Fab Video as always Bex
Thank you 🤗❤️
So schön… 😍 unsere Störchen waren nie weg 😅
What a beautiful crown! I’m inspired 😊
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Thank you. Always a pleasure seeing your videos. 😊
So happy you enjoyed the one 🤗
Very neat idea w baking out th moisture of fresh herbz in a salt blend - love that idea
Lovely ideas 😁 cant wait to try them
Hope you enjoy them as much as I did 😄💚
I love your videos, they make me so happy 😊 ❤❤❤❤❤
So happy to hear!! ☺️❤️
Thank you for this one. It feels so happy and enjoyable.
Glad you think so!! 🔥🐝
Thank you for another fun, beautiful, educational and inspirational video. I love your challenge idea and will take it on as well! Happy Beltane.
Endlich....ein neues Video 😊😊😊
Hat einen Moment gedauert aber endlich ist es da 😄
@@Thewitchescookery ich hab mich soo gefreut als ich es heute gesehen hab....immer wieder schön deine Stimme zu hören....hab eine schöne Restwoche🥰🌹
Thznku so much happy beltane fron the south uk iv Been with Your channel for a while,always happy inspiring info ,bright blessings to you and ur famo x ty
I hope you have a beautiful Beltane too Bex 🌸 🌱 🪴
This was such a lovely relaxing video! It has been gloomy rainy weather here, so it was fun to see your lovely flowers and happy chickens. I am also trying to learn about all my wild plants growing in my yard (I am trying to teach my puppy to leave the dandelions alone!) Thanks for sharing your magic =) Wishing you a magical and cheerful season.
🌬🌻💫🦋I love your videos.
And this view is outstanding 🌬❣🌻🌹💕🐇🧚♀️🐰
Thank you! So happy you enjoyed it 💐✨🔥🐝
@@Thewitchescookery 🌬💕💫Always do 🧚♀️🤗🦋😘🍀🌻🌹🐇🌻🦋
Love this video Bex. Thank you 🌸🏵🌺🌼
Wishing you a magical Beltane! ✨💐
@@Thewitchescookery thank you! and to you 🌼🌷
Lovely video! What card deck is it that you used?
A wonderful video indeed! I see that your dandelions & purple dead nettle are also prolific this year. Our dandelions are already in seed & conveniently dispersed by lawnmowers 🎉. When I had a garden, I always put out faerie cakes Beltaine Eve. Very happy faeries. Happy Beltaine to you & your family and to everyone in the community!!!💚💚💚💚
Thank you! Yes, they are popping up like crazy this week - already harvested some for dandelion muffins and fake honey :) wishing you a magical Beltane!
Hey bex yet again brill video always find inspiration and enjoyment from your videos
🤗 thank you! And happy Beltane ❤️
Happy Beltane to all.
And to you ❤️💐✨🔥
Beltain blessings becks to you and your family..🌛🌕🌜💜🕯🧚♂️
Ahh, I love this so so much. Looking forward to the beltane retreat vlog as I am gonna join next year for sure!!!! I love that salt idea so much! I am gonna make my own with coriander and a few more herbs we gind naturally here in India!
Thank you so much for this awesome video!!
Do you have a cookbook I could buy? Everything you make looks delicious, and I want to try but don’t know where to start!
Gracias🎉
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This year, I am also learning about the plants that grow around my parent's house. Most of these wild plants are eatable and healing in one way or another: nettle, ground ivy, dead nettle, strawberry leaves and lungwort (I actually didn't know most of these english names). It is interesting to learn about these plants, I feel smart then.
Beautiful video. Many blessings in the Beltain time.
Thank you for the wonderful ideas! I've been doing lots of wonderful arts and crafts and diy projects with my athiest kids and Christian mother too so this Beltane should be interesting.
Merry meet x just found your lovely channel. Thank you for the lovely video full of great ideas and information. Bealtaine blessings to you and yours x
Welcome to the channel! I hope you find lots of fun videos to watch ☺️ Beltane blessings to you and yours too! 🔥❤️
❤ your videos! In 1 of them you showed a wall decor that listed spices & their magical properties & now I can’t find the video. Can you mention where I can find that please 😊
Love your oracle cards. Which ones are they? My daughter just found you and she loves watching your videos. We will be going through all of them
Am so glad that I came across your videos. Watching them is always wonderful, really wish that I could live the way you do and have friends in my life like you. Thank you so much for sharing, I look forward to watching more of your content.
I wish you all the best that you can create the life you want - it definitely takes a while to build and find ❤️
du bist so sympatisch, probier dieses jahr deinen baltane cake von vor 2 Jahren aus
Oh wie schön! Ich hoffe es schmeckt ❤
Love this time of year ❤ I have a huge, old blossom tree outside my home 😊
Ooooh that must look magical! And it's also lovely to observe the seasons that way
It really does, early morning and late evening, never fails to lift my spirit ❤
You make the prettiest covers! I HAD to click on it.
Hihi glad to hear!!
Very cool 😃
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Sehr schönes Video! Bei uns sind die Rasenmäher schon wieder im Einsatz und mähen die schönen Blümchen und Kräuter um.
Oh wie schade - bei uns ist Dschungel 😅
Thank you so much for sharing. I have been doing some meditation and it relaxes me so much. I really love your videos. 😁😍🌻🌼🐝
Meditation is life changing - I rely on it for so many physical, mental and spiritual things in my life 😄 happy Beltane ❤️
@@Thewitchescookery Happy Beltane to you too.😁🌻🌼🍀
Simple things can be the best I want to put a flower wreath on my door
Hello, Bex! Love your channel! Could you please explain more about the German herbs often used for rituals. I think you called them "soul plants?" What did you call them in German? The auto-caption wasn't making sense of the word(s). I am trying to research my Germanic roots and traditions and am not finding much, so if you have any sources on this, t would be appreciated! Thank you!
Happy beltane to you all
And to you!!
@@Thewitchescookery you inspired me! I went out foraging with my 2 girls after school. Lovely dandelions and daisies, a couple of feathers for my little alter and my 9 year old got pooped on by a crow 😄
Happy beltane
And to you!
It's wonderful to see all those lovely dandelions and other bits of flowers. Here where I live spring is having a bit of a hard time showing up. I do have a few things blooming but it's taking way too long. Six months of winter has taken a toll on my mental health. I'm with you on the wild backyard lawn stuff. I have a hill in my backyard with occasional deer wandering through. For the most part I let it go very wild.
I can't stand those perfect manicured lawns so I take dandelions that have gone to seed and blow it across the lawns. You'd think I'd outgrow that urge but I've embraced it as an adult.😉😂
Sending some spring energies your way! We also had a painfully slow start and I could also feel the grey weather weighing on me - so happy that spring is here now 💐 how magical that you have deer in your backyard!!
@@Thewitchescookery Thank you! The deer are wonderful but they do like to eat my vegetable garden along with my tulips and roses.
Wow Bex that was amazing! The most lovely video. Really want to join your retreat, but not sure if you can come to the retreat if you are a teen. Thank you for this video! Blessings from Malta.
🤗 so glad you liked it!! Have a beautiful Beltane! The retreats are open to anyone from on 18 years (due to legal reasons) - maybe one day we meet there ❤️
@@Thewitchescookery thank you so much! You are the best youtuber! Had just wanted you to send a video and you did! Thank you again.
I will make a few flower crowns out of groundman - and then go see the sunrise at Pömmelte woodhenge.
That sounds lovely!!
@@Thewitchescookery It was! On my way there, I watched the fog rising above the river Elbe in the dusk, and came across some foxes barking. I never knew they did this. The light and everything was so magical.
For the flower crowns - if ure in an area with less flowers available, then to use less, just make a little hole in the stem with your nail and thread the next flower’s stem through xx
That's how I made daisy wreaths when I was a child 😄❤️
Bex where did you get that gorgeous foraging bag???
A lovely lady that attended my Samhain retreat gifted it to me - along with the beautiful handcrafted book also shown in the video and some gorgeous scents. She also sells her stuff and it is incredible quality 😍 www.lunarynncraftory.com/
My Welch cousins ALL moved to big cities in the states🤦🏻♀️ To each their own but I wish they would've asked to switch identities 😂 So I could live on that magical island
Beltane is my birthday! 🥳 🎉❤
Oh that is exciting! Sending you early birthday blessings ❤️
Anyone else in the southern hemisphere? When do you celebrate and what do you include? 🙏🌏
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Glad Valborg
Do u sell the plant wallet? I'm talking about the thing you wrap your dandelions in to take them home?
It was a gift from a lovely lady that attended one of my retreats - she has a website were she sells them (also the handcrafted notebook that you see here). Lunarynn craftery is the name of the website
Thank you and you have a wonderful Beltane yourself
Thank you ❤️🤗
Wow, that salt is crazy green! Do you dry it in the oven a bit or let it air-dry? How long does it keep?
Happy Beltane!
You can air-dry it or popp it in the oven. Personally I usually let it air dry and it keeps for over a year
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OH NEARLY FORGOT BEX.DID YOU KNOW CHEWING DANDELION LEAVES HELPS BUILD ENAMEL!IVE JUST BEEN TOLD ABOUT NIGER SEEDS SEEDS MIRACLE LIL THINGS!
🍃🕯🌿🌼blessed Beltane😊 your videos are wonderful so happy you get your kids "crotch goblins" involved 😂
And to you 🤗🔥💐✨
My birthday is May 1st 2001🌼
What’s your dog called, he/she looks like a real character😉
He's called Sgt Pepper 😄 he is very sweet and a bit stupid 😅
@@Thewitchescookery Sgt Pepper 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant what a name👍. One of the best albums ever, still sounds good today😉. This and Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the Moon and Fleetwood Mac Rumours probably the three most iconic albums ever for me😉
@@paultodd7806 couldn't agree more with this comment hahah
sadly no dandelions have grown here yet :( plus, its snowing so i cant do much sadly.
I hope spring makes it to your corner of the world soon ❤
fabulousness🪻🪴🌸
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The part where you talk about smoking plants, what did you call them in German? The auto-caption wasn't making sense of the word(s).
I would also like to know this, please!
Seelenpflanzen - we call them Wetterkräuter, Frauenkräuter, Marienkräuter and so on
Oops Nigella seeds!