A Flavour of Steampunk and other events!

We have some events coming up that you shouldn’t miss!

This Saturday 20th, we will be in Queen’s Square between 12pm and 4pm as part of Crawley’s St. George’s Day celebrations in the town centre! There will be stalls, food, activities and a play to watch, so do drop by!

A Flavour of Steampunk

On Saturday, 11th May 2024, Crawley has something special lined up!  If you’re a fan of steampunk, or even if it’s new to you, come down to Crawley Town Centre for family friendly activities from 11am. It starts at Crawley museum, with participation from other businesses in the town centre. We’re really excited to be a part of this! We’ll be providing the merch, so come to up for your hats, goggles! Full information can be found HERE.

Beltane

Beltane is a festival for springtime, blossoming love and fertility. Beltane represents the Great Wedding of the God and Goddess, and is a popular time for handfastings and betrothals. It is also a time for couples to spend the night in the woods 😜 (A-Maying) and of course there would be Beltane many babies born the following winter! Beltane marks the midway point between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice, and is on Wednesday, 1st May 2024.

Beltane is a great time to make a wish box, or a manifestation box. Write things about your wishes on a piece of paper, whilst concentrating on your intentions. Place the paper in the box. Over time, add other things to support your wishes in order to manifest your desires. Some witches like to put earth into their manifestation box and plant seeds, so that their wishes materialise with the growing plants.

I have a few jars of my hand blended loose Beltane incense available in the shop at just £5 per jar.

Here are some things you can do!

Your altar  Put some greenery on your altar. Beltane is the only time of the year where it is not unlucky to bring Hawthorn in. Hawthorn is a very powerful magickal tree, and represented fertility and sexuality. Beltane is also for flowers so decorate your altar with blossom, local wild flowers, or perhaps make a daisy chain.

Enjoy the outdoors!  You can spend the night outdoors or course, or your can collect flowers on a walk, or get up early and enjoy a sunrise.

The Maypole Did you know that Mayday traditions of dancing round a maypole is a Beltane tradition? You can go back to your pagan roots by finding a Birch, Rowan, or Hawthorne tree and celebrate. If none of these are local to you, pick a tree that you connect with and sit with it. Talk or sing to it. You can dance around it and also tie ribbons on and make wishes.