The Five Dragons and Beltane
I sort of elected myself to write ritual for my group of friends for Beltane, which we will celebrate tonight. I find it confusing how some texts say it is April 30 and some May 1st. I figured it was a good exercise which it did turn out to be as I came up with a generic ritual and you just plug in the one working section for whatever holiday or spell work you wish to do. I learned a lot doing it.
As part of this I read about the Five Dragons of Fire, Air, Earth, Water and Spirit. I found this amusing because I myself own five bearded dragon lizards. Not four, not six, but exactly five. It just seems sort of strange that I have this amount and strangely enough, some of their personalities match. At least I think so.
My one lizard, Spike, she lives in her hammock (suspended in air) and so I feel she represents air. She also tends to fly off of her hammock with incentive of a worm.
Rudy represents fire for no other reason than he is red in color
Rocky represents earth. He is the color of a white rock and black rock and he is calm and grounded. Plus I named him Rocky
Casanova represents water. He loves to soak in the water. He was my first living dragon and went through a long illness. He is doing great and has a new lease on life.
Finally there is Spirit and that means Rosie. She has lots of spirit too. She is my spunkiest dragon hands down and quite a character.
I have to learn a bit more about this but I also think that these lizards are my animal totem. I’m crazy about them and the first one I ever saw I fell in love with. They each have their own house and there is a four story high rise plus Rudy has a tall tank where he can climb.
Anyway, I though I’d share my story about my dragons as I though it was kind of neat. Have a great Beltane.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:01 AM
that’s so cute! when u first told me u had dragons i was like eww but now they seems like really cool creatures to be to care for! thats also pretty sweet how you matched them to the elements. for sure dragons are your totem animal! im the same way about frogs. i dont know why i just love em!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:09 AM
Wow! That’s really cool! Funny how things like that work out. How did you come to have 5 dragons? I’ve only heard of people having 1 or 2, but 5? That is a true love. Love the pics!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:46 PM
Five beardies! They are so cool! I love how they all fit with the elements, what a fun idea.