Theme & Story

Theme and Story for Pleasures of Beltane 2025

Theme

The Pleasure Pentacle

Story

We connect with each other, the land, and our ancestors, human and more-than-human. 

By listening to our bodies, we reclaim our desires and surrender to the erotic flow within and around us. 

We arrive at sacred play and dance the MayPole with ecstatic abandon. 

We tend to ourselves, each other, all of nature, and all we have discovered.

Thursday (Air): Connect

Intention: We inhale the pleasure of connection.

Story: As Beltane air winds through the pines, we open to this ancient place and meet old magic. We listen, we attune, we land in. We honor sacred aliveness by cultivating intimate relations. With reverence and respect, we open to consensual, authentic connection with earth, self, and one another. 

Friday (Fire): Desire

Intention: In the name of embodied liberation, we claim and wear our desires. 

Story: We honor the ancestors by listening to the appetites of our bodies. We connect with the queer elements, and (re)claim our desires through ritualized hanky code play. Like the queer ancestors before us, we celebrate our untamed hunger for erotic connection.

Saturday (Water): Surrender

Intention: We dive into the tides of erotic power and surrender to our deepest desires.

Story: We frolic in the waters of desire, feeding our deep erotic hunger. Cum, sweat, and tears: the waters of our bodies flow as we move, touch, and play. What sacred pleasure are you ready to immerse yourself in? What are you ready to offer and receive from others and from yourself? 

Sunday (Earth): Play

Intention: We dance the Maypole, committing to expansive erotic play, joyful release, and the radical reshaping of our world. 

Story: As the ribbons twirl, we enter a magical game of peek-a-boo and ecstatic alchemy. We flirt, we connect, we dance and we fuck, allowing ourselves to change and be changed. With this dance, we weave ourselves into the collective web, committed to the work of liberation. Together we ask: what transformation is possible through radical joy and erotic play?

Monday (Spirit): Tend

Intention: Honoring the spirit of community, we exhale and tend to our parting. 

Story: As we prepare to part ways, we breathe together and with the land.  We arrived with care and we leave with care, committed to tender devotion to our human and more-than-human kin. May the abundant pleasures of Beltane go ever in our hearts. Merry meet and merry part, and merry meet again!