The festival of Beltaine, May Day, is a celebration of the return of spring and the promise of summer, a time for love magic and spells for increasing the fertility of the land and the plants that grow upon it. Like Samhain in autumn, Beltaine is also a time when the veil between the physical and spiritual world is at its most transparent and the ancestors and denizens of the Otherworld easily interact with the world of humans. The Sacred Herbs of spring is a practical guide to the celebration of Beltaine, examining the plants, customs, foods, drinks, and rituals of May Day across many cultures. In the section on the sacred plants of Beltaine, the author explores more than 90 herbs and trees, offering spells, rituals, and recipes alongside their medicinal healing uses. She reveals sacred woods suitable for the Beltaine fires and Beltaine flowers for rituals and spells. She explores herbs for luck, magic, purification, abundance, and love; herbs for protection, herbs of the Faeries and Elves, and herbs for journeying to the Otherworld and contacting the high gods and goddesses. Woven throughout with mystical tales of folk, Faery, and sacred herbs, the readers are offered practical and magical ways to connect with Nature, the plant kingdom, and the Spirits that surround us in the season of spring.