The Joy Garden

On this Beltaine, The Store Circle Tradition Wicca invites initiates, community members, and friends alike to join us in creating a Joy Garden.

Beltaine is a celebration of joy, creativity, and the generative principle.

As we come to this Beltaine, to many of us the world feels very heavy and cold.

Still, even in the darkest of times, all of us have joys in our life. Some of them are glimmers, the little joys that keep you going, like seeing your cat sneeze or talking to your favorite people, looking at art you love, hearing g a favorite song.

Some of them are greater joys, like the joy of connection with the people dearest to you, the joys of community, and that of hard-won accomplishments. And of course, the joy of love in all its forms.

This Beltaine we will create between us a garden of paper flowers, and with those flowers we will lift some of our joys up to share with the community around us. And as our joys are shared, they will not be consumed, but rather profoundly multiplied in the sharing.

What you will need for this is either a piece of roughly letter size paper, something to draw on the paper with, and scissors, or if you want to do the more complicated version, those things and some craft glue or glue tape. You should also bring a white candle and supplies to light it.

We look forward to coming together with you all in community. Blessed Be!