This year’s Wyld Fire Beltane Hunt gathered beneath a theme that seemed to ripple through every conversation, ritual, and rainstorm we shared together: wild sovereignty. Not domination. Not hierarchy. Not control. But the deep remembering that we belong first to the wild world, to each other, and to the truths we choose to live by. Our volunteers arrived Thursday to begin transforming the land into sacred space. Camps sprang up beneath dripping trees while hands worked togeth

(The Wyld Fire Beltane Hunt features an activity prior to our Beltane ritual, where participants who identify as Hunters (active, seeking energy) chase after the participants who identify as Holies (representing receptive, life-generating energy) in search of one Holy who is secretly our Queen of May. Hunters must answer riddles and undergo trials and tribulations in their search, and the one Hunter who "captures" the May Queen is crowned the Oak King. The following is a firs

May 1–3, 2026 All You Need Institute — Lumberton, MS (just 1.5 hours outside New Orleans) The fires are stirring again — and early bird tickets are officially on sale for the 2026 Wyld Fire Beltane Hunt! Join us May 1–3 in the pine forests on the edge of DeSoto National Forest for a weekend of revelry, ritual, learning, and wild communion under this year’s powerful banner: No Kings but the Oak. A 2025 newbie (GG) deciding that this tree needed a good climb. The Land: Pine F

At the beginning of 2025, I set out with a few goals: To find an established campground that would welcome our Pagan festival community,...