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Happy May Day!
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WHEEL OF THE YEAR POINT: May Day also known as Beltane
Celebrated May 1 Exact May 5
Beltane is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Spring Equinox. Also known as May Day, it marks the starting point of the turn toward summer. The flowers are in full bloom, and the days are definitely longer.
Beltane is the starting point for the growing summer season. The Solar Fire and the Earth Goddess unite now and bring forth new plants to feed the multitudes. This union of Earth and Fire is essential for the growth of crops, so it is honored with feasting and ceremony. The dance of the May Pole, for instance, represents and celebrates the powerful union of the masculine and feminine principles.
Each of us carries internally the two basic principles of masculine and feminine within our consciousness, and at this time of year you can find value in noticing how they are working together. Those two principles must join within you for any creation to come to fruition. Honor how they both work, and notice what they want to fertilize with their combined energy.
Bask in the beauty of this point of the seasonal cycle. Enjoy being outside, and give thanks to the marriage of Earth and Solar Fire, which bring us these gifts. Connect to the flowers and fairy folk in this window.
Personal Creation Ideas to Work With May Day/Beltane
- Honor the Goddess Flora and the flower realm. Create a May Basket of flowers to give to some one in need of care. Wear flowers in your hair or decorate your home with them. Plant flowers in your garden.
- Honor the union of the masculine and feminine principles. Take time to internally connect with each of them through journaling, then ask what they want you to know. Is there something they are choosing to bring forth?
- Ceremonially dress in bright colors and patterns and honor the abundant beauty of the season.
- Energize your money or wealth by giving it attention. Create a financial plan. Start tracking all your income.
- Feel the fullness of gratitude for all you have and the abundance of Mother Earth.
Professional or Business Ideas for Working With May Day/Beltane
- Bring flowers into your office. Beautify your work space.
- Update your image and wardrobe.
- Create a new business financial plan for the rest of the year.
- Energize how much you want flowing into your business.
- Pay attention to ideas for financial growth during this window and act on the best ones.
- Be grateful for all the blessings and financial flow you have received.
If you have the Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle you may want to draw cards for additional guidance from each element. If you don’t yet have one you can simply connect to each element and journal with it.
Elemental Journaling: Take the time to listen to each element and their message to you for fertility for the active growing season.
Give thanks to Earth and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Water and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Air and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Fire and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Spirit and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Now ask all of the elements and Spirit together for a unified creation message for your creations to flourish.
New Moon in Taurus
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Taurus New Moon Insights from Lisa Michaels
Direct: April 21, 2012 3:18 AM EST
Window: April 20- 22
Earth Day is April 22!
Element: Earth
Taurus, an Earth sign, creates the second astrological gate of awareness, teaching the value of enjoying the earthly realm of matter. It delights in all that looks beautiful, tastes delicious, and feels pleasurable. It loves receiving all the exquisite things and gratifications the physical realm offers. It also knows how to take solid steps to attain its desire for possessions, wealth, and security. It connects to the Divine when it savors and enjoys intimacy through the body and senses. Loyal, dependable, Taurus adores romance and love.
Taurus New Moon
Beautify your home, garden, body, and wardrobe. Enjoy earthly and bodily pleasures. Develop patience. Create grounded goals and strategies. Develop wealth-growing skills. Manage finances. Care for your body. Develop dependability. Relax and enjoy life. Create romance and express love.
This new moon is a great time to anchor your solid grounded plan for the year ahead! What steps need to be taken now in order to have a successful harvest in 6 months? All Earth new moons are useful for solid grounded steps toward your goals.
Personal Action Suggestions:
~ Appreciate your body and give it what it needs to thrive– good food, exercise, touch, and some fresh air.
~ Make a date to spend time in nature by gardening, going for a walk, or taking a nap outside. Give thanks to the element of Earth as you walk. Appreciate her gifts.
~ Freshen your home with some spring-cleaning and include appreciation, prayers, gratitude, and intention, then put flowers everywhere you can.
~ Freshen your wardrobe by ceremonially cleaning out your closet and releasing what you no longer need.
~ Create more beauty in your home, office, garden, and personal care.
~ Ceremonially make a romantic, lovely, and delicious meal. As you eat, appreciate every morsel and give gratitude for all the abundance you have in your life.
Business/Professional Action Suggestions:
~ Open to receive greater abundance in your business, and be grateful for your current blessings.
~ Create a list of anything else you need to come into place for a strong business foundation, and take solid steps toward building that foundation.
~ Evaluate your business management systems. Are there areas to strengthen?
~ Either review or create your business financial goals, expenses, income, and investments.
~ Develop new strategies for step-by-step business growth.
~ Appreciate each of the pieces you have already implemented in the last months and the last year in your business or career.
Sun Moves Into Taurus
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Window: April 19 – May 20
Direct: 12:12 pm EST
Element: Earth
Ah…From the fiery, get moving Aries Sun we now move into the pleasure days of the Taurus Sun. Taurus says, “relax and enjoy the sensuality of spring. Open to receive the renewal that beauty brings.”
It’s time to savor every moment of life and indulge your senses as you connect to the reawakening Earth.
This time of year gently renews and restores both your body and soul as the healing qualities of spring flowers and the fresh leaves on the trees open to reveal their essence. The Tibetans use this time of year to heal from grief and illness by literally sitting downwind from flowers. They know the profound medicine of renewal that comes from the fresh pollen.
To experience the greatest level of personal spring renewal, go be with the flowers and fresh leaves. The period of fresh blooms only exists for a few weeks each year. Take advantage of it. Go to your local flower center, botanical garden, or garden tour. Bathe all your senses in this precious substance.
Also, get your hands dirty by planting some of your own flowers. Connecting with the soil enriches the body’s harmony with the Earth realm.
Find time some lovely afternoon to lie on the ground and relax, feeling the precious Earth underneath. This will strengthen your relationship to the physical realm. Taurus treasures the pleasure of all the physical senses. Enjoy. Luxuriate. Get a massage. Take time to renew on every level.
Refresh your physical world by spring-cleaning your house, freshening your garden, and fluffing your wardrobe and physical appearance.
And remember your physical world relationship to your finances. Taurus loves the pleasures that money can provide and works toward a secure stable economic flow. Allow this sign to support your financial goals this month.
Four times a year, when the sun or new moon are in Earth signs, it is extremely helpful and important to focus on taking solid steps toward your financial goals. This quarterly energy of anchoring helps you to stabilize and support the other elements, so that they all work together effectively throughout the year toward your prosperity.
Creation Ideas for the Sun in Taurus Window
~ Spend as much time as possible outside near flowers.
~ Indulge in renewing physical pleasure.
~ Freshen your physical world.
~ Savor the pleasures of the physical world of form.
~ Tour beautiful homes and gardens and allow beauty to renew you.
~ Renew your financial plans personally and in your business.
~ Allow yourself to be open to receiving.
~ Slow down, relax, and be in the moment.
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Aries New Moon
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Element: Fire
Direct: 10:37 am Eastern
Window: March 21 – March 23
Aries, a Fire sign, creates the first astrological gate of awareness, teaching the meaning of individuation. Active, high-spirited, and energetic Aries loves excitement, adventure, play, and competition. As a sacred warrior, Aries is inspired by a mission and fights to defend its beliefs and protect what it values in life. Since Fire energy sparks new growth, Aries likes to go first, birth the new, get something started, and lead the way. It is courageous, trusting, decisive, inspired, and spontaneous.
Spring Equinox ~ Sun Moves into Aries
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Element: Sun in Aries, Fire
Spring Equinox
Sun Moves Into Aries:
Pacific: March 19, 10:15 PM
Eastern: March 20, 1:15 AM
Sun in Aries Window:
Pacific: March 19- April 18
Eastern: March 20- April 19
Spring Equinox
Spring Equinox and the Aries sun burst forth with the exuberance of the young, playful, and new. It’s time once again for the new solar growing cycle. Things start really heating up here as the active growing cycle begins, so get ready to actively plant your garden and your desires.
Virgo Full Moon
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Window: March 7-9
Direct: March 8, 4:39 AM EST
Element: Full Moon in Virgo, Earth
Sun in Pisces, Water
Virgo Full Moon
This full moon in Virgo creates a great window for getting business handled and your work done. Virgo’s dedication to its sacred work makes it a prime time to attend to details of life in order to get a lot accomplished. With Virgo’s help you can finish your taxes, work on your budget, create a cash flow management strategy, all while honoring the sacred that flows through all aspects of life, including your financial life.
Pisces New Moon
Posted by: | CommentsWindow: February 20-22
Direct: 5:35 PM EST February 21, 2012
Element: Water
Pisces, a Water sign, creates the twelfth astrological gate of awareness, teaching the importance of a compassionate heart. Water functions in the emotional feeling realm through our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world around us. Pisces as the most expanded Water sign brings a deep connection to the collective and mystical merger with the Divine. Pisces feels the grief and suffering of humanity and responds with a loving caring heart that heals. It serves the world by dreaming the visions of a peaceful planet and selflessly helping others to create a better life.
Sun Moves Into Pisces
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Window: February 18 – March 19
Element: Water
Pisces connects us to the vast ocean of the imaginable realm. Here we can lay our heads back and relax into the watery dreamy realm and float in an endless sea of possibilities. Our souls find creative and spiritual nourishment here as we swim in the deep watery merger with others and the Divine.
Pisces joins in mystical union with God/dess bringing psychic insights and intuition. It feels like a quiet rainy day where you are drawn inside to a still space to simply be and reflect. Pisces Sun creates a wonderful opportunity for introspection before the active growing cycle begins. It brings much needed renewal.
Full Moon in Leo
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Direct: February 7, 2012 4:54 PM EST
Window: February 6-8
Element: Full Moon in Leo, Fire
The Full Moon in Leo brings a prime opportunity to light up your self-love and claim your leadership ability. Leo teaches the value of radiance when it comes to shining as a leader. Shining radiance only comes when you are full of self-love, passion, and excitement. Leo shows up as the true leader when it comes to that kind of vibrant life energy.
Step Into Spring: The Wheel of the Year Turns
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With the Cross Quarter Day Imbolc
Celebrated on February 1 or 2
Imbolc is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Winter Solstice. Also known as Brighid’s day or Candlemas, it marks the starting point of spring. Here you begin to subtly notice that the days are lengthening and, depending on the area you live in, you may actually start to see signs of spring. Here in Georgia where I live, the daffodils consistently open sometime around Imbolc, although this year they may be later because of a colder winter. When they do start the daffodils begin the steady wave of beautiful bloom that lasts through the glorious spring.
For others in colder climates, Imbolc may simply bring the promise of spring as the light of the sun slowly begins to increase. Tune in this year to the subtle shifts you notice in the air and light around and after Imbolc. What does it signal internally for you? What things do you get a renewed urge to do?
