Songs of One Breath is a weekly online space with Jilani Cordelia Prescott to explore the direct, joyful experience of mysticism through practice. Each Friday she shares chants, mantra, breath practices and body prayer drawn from a range of traditions, offered as grounding, comfort, and a pathway of the heart toward deeper connection and spiritual freedom. You are warmly invited to join live on Zoom (or via Facebook Live) at 2.30pm London time, and it is free. If you enjoy the class or the podcast, and would like to support Jilani’s work, donations are welcome via PayPal.
I breathe in the fire of the sun!
This world is alive and I am alive with it!
The fire in my heart is a Beltane fire,
A fire raging with passion and purpose!
Today I honour the sun,
And the movement of the Earth.
The Earth Mother provides,
And the Sky Father encourages
New life on the land.
This is the moment to remember
That even while I practice in solitude
I am a living being,
Interconnected with all life.
I am the tree. I am the river.
I am of the earth,
Growing into fullness,
Supported by the Kindred.
Hail, the fire of Beltane!
(From the Solitary Druid Fellowship’s Beltane devotional)
Fires of Love (Beltane)
Embrace the purifying flame,
throw off the cloak of inhibition.
Stoke the good fires of Beltane
and let flames fuel love’s fission.
The sun climbs high to summer glory,
unfolds the leaf and swells the bud,
delivering all of nature’s dowry
and a promise, now misunderstood.
From atom’s heart to human heart
spring passes the vitalising flame
and in each nucleus a spark
sets passion’s ardent torch aflame.
Goodfellow lies with Queen of Mai,
the goddess smiles on merrybegot.
Fires of love join earth and sky,
reaching where men and gods cannot.
(Ian R Thorpe)