Prepairing for Beltain 2012

I am really looking forward to this holiday this year. I am going to be celebrating it with one of my dearest and closest friends. We have been asking ourselves, since Ostara, what are we going to be doing for Beltane? Finally last night we actually got to sit down and talk about it. Several ideas came flooding to us, as we started collaborating how we wanted to conduct the ritual.Finally after great consideration we decided on the deities of occasion and some of the offerings that we were going to use.
     Aphrodite, Eros, and the Graces are the ones that we are going to call upon. I believe that we are going to be offering: milk, water, honey, olive oil, wine, bread, barley, and strawberries. The reason for our selection is because we want spread the love beyond the ritual itself. We have been talking about shortly after the rite, doing community service, to carry the teachings of the gods into the world around us.
     We are holding the ritual beside a lake a sunset, with a simple fire and a finger food feast. I know that there is more to work on, but we are off to a pretty good start. I will be adding more lately, and the finished product with an interpretation of the Omen.

-Wayland Stafford
" Walking the path of the old gods in a modern world."