“Though the spring is late and cold,
though the uproar of greed
and malice shudders in the sky,
Pond, stream and hilltop raise
their ancient song.
The robin molds her mud nest
With her breast, the air is bright with breath
of bloom, wise loveliness that asks
Nothing of the season but to be.” Wendell Berry
“We have this way of talking, and we have another.
Apart from what we wish and we fear may happen,
We are alive with other life, as clear stones
take form in the mountain,” Rumi
Recently we have had a lot of rain here in New England. One early morning this week when I went out on my porch, the scent of the purple and white lilacs and the apple blossoms in the yard drifted through the moist morning air. It reminded me of the phrase in Wendell Berry’s poem, “the air is bright with breath of bloom.” In these rapidly changing times, our interconnection with the natural world can be so restorative.
The Full Moon this month is Monday May 12th at 22 degrees of Taurus.
Full Moons are a good time for release. In Peruvian shamanism they refer to this process as “shedding an old skin,”as a snake does. If there is an old identity or belief system you’ve outgrown, this Full Moon at 22 degrees of Scorpio would be a powerful time to set an intention to let it go – and to move forward in a new direction.
Uranus is conjunct the Sun and opposite the Moon at this time. The wind is at our back in terms of moving in a direction of freedom and personal evolution.
Mercury just entered Taurus and will be in a square configuration with Pluto at 3 degrees of Aquarius. This aspect bodes well for work that requires concentration, but watch for overthinking.
There are a number of interpretations of the tightening Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries. One of them is that it can be a time on the earth of a growth in spiritual awareness. It bodes well to bring the spiritual / inspired energy down to the earth plane (Saturn.)
It’s a good time to envision a healthy, sustainable future for our small planet.
One of the Sabian symbols for this time is. “A rabbit metamorphosed into a nature spirit.”
Sabian symbol from Lynda Hill
The Moon waxes Full on Monday May 12 at 12:56 PM EDT.