Ceremony: Casting a Magic Circle --The Most Important Step to Spiritually Contacting Ancestors on Beltane (May Day)

Twice a year those following the paths of Wicca, and Paganism prepare for the "thinning of the veil." It's a special time when the worlds of the living and the dead grow closer.

Whatever your spiritual background and whether or not you have developed your intuitive abilities, you, too, can honor your ancestors and seek connection with them on the two weeks before or after Beltane (May First) or Samhain (Halloween).

This process is really meaningful to me, as I noted last October. I think every...