Magical Gifts for Beltane and Mother’s Day
Beltane is coming up on May 1st, with Mother’s Day just a few weeks after on the 12th.
With these two celebrations in mind, we’ve curated a collection of thoughtful gifts—magical books, journals, oracle decks, and more—to celebrate the end of spring and the magic of motherhood.
So, what is Beltane? In Ritual: Magical Celebrations of Nature and Community from Around the World, author Nikki Van De Car shares the origins of this ancient end-of-spring celebration. It all started in ancient Rome with Floralia, a festival that “was a bit more pleasure-seeking and passionate than most.” From there, the ancient Greeks observed Maiouma to celebrate the gods of pleasure and love, Dionysus and Aphrodite.
Over time, these traditions slowly spread through Europe, with interpretations of the holiday shifting to fit the beliefs of each culture. “In Gaelic and Celtic cultures, Floralia became known as Beltane, which translates to ‘lucky fire.’ All household fires would be doused and the Beltane bonfire would be lit in each village…the bonfires were meant to be leaped over, both for luck and for protection from fairies.” We love how Ritual teaches us about magical celebrations like Beltane, and how they vary across cultures, which is why we think it’s a lovely gift idea for mothers open to learning about magical celebrations held across the world!
Learn more about this magical offering and more in our full list of Mother’s Day and end-of-springtime gift ideas below.
Explore the transcendent power of plant allies with Dirt Gems, a deluxe 65-card deck and illustrated guidebook set that harnesses the magic and mystery of the natural world.
What can we learn if we take the time to listen to the plants growing all around us? What messages can we take in, and what sense of connection to ourselves and the world around us can we cultivate? In Dirt Gems, author Anne Louise Burdett and illustrator Chelsea Granger seek to share the wisdom of our plant allies—in all their natural beauty and complexity. Divided into four suits—Ablaze, Afloat, Adrift, and Amidst—these lushly illustrated cards offer tools to tap into the inherent power, and magic, of the natural world. Dive deeper into the meaning of each card in the accompanying illustrated guidebook, whether you are pulling a single card, or creating a spread for further exploration.
- Deluxe set: This package includes 65 fully illustrated cards (3 X 5 inches) in an interior travel case; a 168-page, full-color flexibound guidebook (4 3/4 X 6 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box.
- 65-card deck with vibrant illustrations: Each card highlights a single plant, from Calendula to Yarrow, with a vivid, whimsical watercolor illustration on the front, along with the plant's name and suit. A unifying card back illustration brings cohesion to this stunning deck, while sprayed metallic edges on the cards add visual interest.
- Inspiring guidebook for further reflection: The accompanying flexibound book offers deep insights into the magic of each suit—including colors, elements, energetic signatures, weather, metals, emotions, and landscapes—and the specifics of each plant. Both deeply researched and soulfully written, these card-specific entries guide readers in developing a relationship with their deck.
- Interior case for travel, exterior box for storage: Dirt Gems includes an interior, full-color cardstock box for holding your cards—perfect for bringing them wherever you want to go. Once you're home, store the travel box and guidebook inside the luxe magnetic closure keepsake box for easy storage and display.
- A perfect gift for plant lowers and spiritual seekers: Anyone who connects to the natural world will find inspiration and magic in the world of Dirt Gems, as it blends plant knowledge and herbalism with the innate energy of all that grows from the Earth.
A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.
Filled with rich symbology and open-ended imagery, The Dreamgate Oracle is a beautiful tool to support your dreams and day-to-day life. Meant to evoke subconscious landscapes and celestial vistas, the cards of this deck are carefully crafted by visual artist and leading oracle creator Danielle Noel to explore the magic of your inner worlds. The Dreamgate Oracle invites readers through their own dreaming doorways, using 50 carefully crafted oracle cards to guide meditations, rituals, and dreamtime explorations. An accompanying guidebook offers further insights into each card, as well as the history of dream interpretation and practices for active dreaming.
- Deluxe set: This set includes 50 full-color oracle cards (3 X 5 inches) with original illustrations by Danielle Noel; an interior travel case; a 208-page, full-color, flexibound guidebook; and a magnetic closure keepsake box, with pearlescent paper, for display.
- 50 ethereal oracle cards: Each card in The Dreamgate Oracle features a lush, dreamy image of a dream-based symbol, landscape, mood, or mindset.
- Illustrated guidebook for enhanced dreamwork: The Dreamgate Oracle includes an in-depth illustrated guidebook to help explain the functionality of the deck, including the language of dreams; methods and rituals for remembering your dreams; types of dreams; and working with dreams.
- A brand-new deck from the mind of artist Danielle Noel: Visual artist and oracle creator Danielle Noel has devised an entirely unique, consciousness-expanding toolset with The Dreamgate Oracle. This deck and guidebook set is a perfect addition for existing fans of Danielle's work, as well as any spiritual seekers.
A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.
Complete the collection: The Dreamgate Guided Journal: Nurture Your Dreams and Waking Life!
Tap into nature as an inspiration for your own health and beauty practices, and learn to connect more meaningfully to your precious body. Each of the 52 cards in this set highlights one part of nature (seeds, sand, waterfalls, mountains, seashells, smoke, wind, fire, etc.) with a beautiful full-color, finely detailed illustration on the front and Intention on the back. Turn to the guidebook to further explore the link to the element's lessons for our bodies and our well-being. Place the card in the accompanying stand for daily, or weekly, inspiration.
- Deluxe set: This package includes 52 beautifully illustrated cards (3 x 5 inches) in an interior travel case; a 144-page, full-color illustrated paperback guidebook (4 ¾ x 6 inches); wooden stand; and a full-color illustrated box
- 52-card deck with beautiful illustrations: Each card focuses on one element of nature, with its powerful meaning on the front and the Intention for how it connects to your well-being and body on the back; each card highlights the detail and exquisite beauty of nature with stunning full-color illustration by internationally published artist Vicki Ling
- Immersive and functional guidebook: The accompanying book brings added depth, context, and practical applications to the cards as it offers highly accessible and absorbing lessons, rituals, and reflections for each element of nature featured in the deck
- Wooden stand for inspiration: Display a new card each week on the included wooden stand as a wellness reminder
- A card/inspiration for 52 weeks, and beyond: Earth + Body’s evergreen content invites you to take inspiration from 52 elements of nature to inspire 52 weeks and beyond as it invites varied applications of nature for repeated use
A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.
Also available from Jolene Hart: Well-Rested Every Day: 365 Rituals, Recipes, and Reflections for Radical Peace and Renewal!
Befriend the mysterious and wise guardians of our woodlands using the green witchcraft of the Forest Magic Deck. Whether you live deep in the woods or in the center of a city, this whimsical set of oracle cards—each featuring a magical plant, from trees to flowers—will guide you to a more grounded state of connection with the Earth. An accompanying illustrated guidebook frames the Earth's magical cycle in two parts—The Oak King, for the first half of the year, and The Holly King, for the second half—and provides deeper context for exploring the magical plants and occasions.
- Deluxe set: This set features 40 illustrated oracle cards (3 X 5 inches); an 88-page paperback guidebook (3 X 5 inches); and a magnetic closure case for easy transportation and storage.
- 40-card deck with whimsical illustrations: Each oracle card features a stunning full-color illustration and highlights a plant to inspire green magic.
- Illustrated companion guidebook for further magic: Gain deeper insights into each oracle card—including healing properties, sample spreads, and more—in this beautifully illustrated guidebook.
- A perfect gift for green witches: Begin or continue a green witchcraft practice using the nature-based insights, spells, and rituals of Forest Magic Deck.
Complete the collection: Forest Magic: Rituals and Spells for Green Witchcraft!
Do you feel clouded by all of the perspectives shared on social media? Are you looking to tap into your own deeper power? Take your spiritual practice off of the internet and invite Golden Mantras into your home. This beautiful collection deck and guidebook set features 52 powerful affirmations—curated with intention. Allow the stunningly illustrated cards and inspiring guidebook to become vessels of inspiration and tools to help you further connect to your higher self and nourish the empress within.
This set includes:
- Illustrated mantra cards. 52 illustrated mantra cards, enhanced with gold metallic ink.
- Companion guidebook with rituals and sample spreads. A 96-page, illustrated paperback guidebook describes the process of the cards' creation and includes rituals, mantra reflections, example spreads, and ideas for use with tarot and oracle decks.
- Magnetic closure travel case. The illustrated magnetic closure travel case folds open to reveal the guidebook on one side, and a secure spot for cards on the other. A sturdy magnet makes this set durable and perfect for taking your spiritual practice on the go.
Pleasure Alchemy offers the simple yet radical idea that by exploring and expanding the ways we facilitate and participate in pleasurable experiences, we can take charge of our own desires and needs. Pleasure Alchemy provides us with a toolset of ideas for rethinking and rearranging our pre-existing notions around what brings us pleasure—in all facets of our lives. This deluxe deck and guidebook form a practical and grounding toolset that aims to bring us back into our bodies, back into an understanding of what pleasure feels like, and back into a mindset of how we can actively seek out and experience what is pleasurable for us. This inspiring, deeply usable set is meant to be used for pleasure, enjoyment, self-reflection, self-expression, and fun.
- Deluxe set. This set includes 78 beautiful cards (3 X 5 inches) in an interior travel case; a 216-page, full-color, fully illustrated guidebook (4 ¾ X 6 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box.
- Stunning cut paper artwork by celebrated artist Maude White. The entire set is gorgeously illustrated in Maude White's signature cut-paper style against a beautiful spectrum of soothing colors.
- Immersive guidebook with spreads, exercises, and cards meanings. Within the guidebook, each element of the 82-card system (divided among the Pleasure Seekers, Remedies, and the Elements of Pleasure) is explored with journaling prompts, thoughtful exercise ideas, card spreads to pull, and advice on how to incorprorate the system into the user’s life.
- Explore pleasure in all its forms. The Pleasure Alchemy system is based on the idea that to truly understand what we find pleasurable—from food to activities to romance—we must be open to curiosity, play, and self-exploration. This set provides a toolkit of ideas to engage in this journey.
- Pair with Maude White's Resilience Alchemy deck for even more insight. Built to stand on its own as a system, Pleasure Alchemy can bring even more strength and insight when used in combination with the Resilience Alchemy system.
A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.
Complete the collection: Resilience Alchemy: A Deck and Guidebook for Self-Discovery and Empowerment!
A complete deck of 78 tarot cards and an accompanying guidebook, gorgeously illustrated in rich, original line art that evokes the classic Rider-Waite designs, ready for you to color in, customize, and bring to life.
- A comprehensive, classic deck and guidebook: The 78 cards in this deck feature the Major and Minor Arcana in beautiful, simple black line art reminiscent of the classic Rider–Waite tarot deck illustrations, and the guidebook includes the meanings of each card and information on how to pull and read cards and spreads.
- Complete set: This set includes 78 colorable illustrated cards (3 x 5 inches), shrink wrapped and housed in a card box; a 112-page paperback guidebook with colorable spot illustrations (3 x 5 inches); a full-color folded poster insert of suggested color palettes (6 x 10 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box (3-1/2 x 5-3/8 inches).
- Ideal format for coloring: The cards are printed on thick, uncoated paper stock ideal for coloring with pencils, watercolor, pens, markers, or your medium of choice, and the guidebook contains information on coloring basics for beginners.
- Includes a primer on color magic: Many magical practitioners believe in the magical properties and intentions of different parts of the color spectrum, and the guidebook includes information on these meanings to guide the user's color choices.
A note on packaging: In order to help honor our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior tarot cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.
Also available from Sarah Lyons: How to Study Magic: A Guide to History, Lore, and Building Your Own Practice!
- Unique Oracle Format: The 50 cards in this oracle deck are split into 25 beautifully designed prompt cards (Cards of Inquiry) and 25 illustrated cards (Cards of Dreaming) with stunning original artwork to light your creative spark in new ways. Let The Lighthouse card illuminate your character's path forward, push the boundaries of plot with The Library card, or recall something in the story that was almost forgotten with the Unsettled Dreams card.
- Deluxe Creative Set: This set includes 50 cards (3 x 5 inches); an 80-page, full-color illustrated paperback book (3 x 5 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box; cards and travel case are embedded in an interior tray
- Fully Illustrated Oracle Guidebook: This set includes a full-color illustrated companion book with instructions for use and card spreads to try, as well as lined pages to write in
- Perfect Gift: This one-of-a-kind, beautiful oracle deck and book set is an ideal gift for writers and anyone looking to add a little magic in their creative process