May
May is an invitation to share your unique voice, creativity and expression with the world, as you learn the sacred art of walking in Beauty.
May is such a beautiful and exciting month, where you are invited to transform life as you know it on so many levels. As familiar as you might be with the idea of the big ‘spring clean,’ the changes we are talking about this month, are subtle changes that happen on the inside first, with the potential to transform your outside world later.
Astrologically, we are still in eclipse season, where the transits of April may have offered you newfound insights around where you desire personal growth and transformation, as you go forward in the next season of your life.
May also brings an eclipse in the shape of the lunar Flower Full Moon eclipse, that will shine a light on how you to come back to yourself in some way.
Named after the Greek goddess Maia, identified with fertility and growing plants, this is a month to nurture your ideas and feelings around your personal freedom, values and self-worth. Use your insights from the Eclipse Season around where you need or want to break free, as you apply your newfound wisdom to create a life that nourishes you and supports your values, creativity and expression.
Explore themes around personal freedom
The energies of May is supporting your personal freedom and the ways in which you express yourself. Teachings will be around finding new new ways of communicating and connecting with others and the world.
You will be supported in identifying where you’ve been restricting your freedom, where you’ve been dependent on people or circumstances in a way that you may have felt caged, but felt like you needed for security or support.
This month you are invited to bring any unhealthy dynamics to an end: Things and people you have been relying on, and maybe even resenting, whatever you have felt that you needed because you were afraid of moving forth in different ways.
This is a time to deal with those things in order to let go of false dynamics, relationships, identities and circumstances, that have kept you stuck, so that you can be liberated. So that you can find new ways of being, new ways of expressing yourself.
Explore your own voice as a means of finding your way back to your freedom. Speak up, communicate in new ways, and don’t be afraid to say what is in your heart. For inspiration on the art of speaking up for yourself, I really recommend the book Loving Yourself by psychotherapist Daphne Rose Kingma, who will nudge your in the most gentle way.
“Take the risk of saying things you’ve never been able to say before. When you speak out, you say now what you couldn’t say then.”
The Beauty Way
As nature keeps blooming and opening around us, it inspires us to open ourselves again to the sense of wonder. Spring is the eternal miracle and reminder of the beauty that is right in front us. A blooming flower, the warm sun on your skin and all the little promises in the (spring) air.
As the last spring month, May is a month to step into another way of being, where you open yourself to really appreciate life’s beauty. It is a welcome nourishing and grounding container to nurture your ideas and feelings around your personal security, as you ask yourself, “what is security really? What is safety? What is belonging? What do you value, who you value, do you value yourself?”
May is truly a month to slow down and catch up on the intuitive parts of yourself and the values of what is truly important in your life: Your health, self worth and how you think and communicate around yourself.
Try to find ways this month where you practice the art of being and open to the beauty of the simple things in life as you learn to appreciate what is right here, right now. You can find more inspiration on how to ‘walk in beauty’ here on The Beauty Way, which is one of my favourite indigenous wisdom teachings.
May Blessings,
May Rituals
Slow Down
‘The slow way is the fast way.’ Instead of chasing your desires, try to practice the ‘yin’ energy, where you draw things to you in a feminine way through simply being. Through love, appreciation, nurturing and through being connected to nature, art and beauty that feeds your soul.
CHANGE your story
‘I am always a person, who does this…..’, ‘This always happens to me.’ We all have stories that we tell ourselves. Repeat loops of self identity, that we keep ourselves trapped in like an invisible cage of confine around our lives. This month, try to let go of these stories and re-invent yourself as the author and hero(ine) of a new story. How do you want to write this next chapter?
SpEAK Up-and out- for yourself
If only for yourself first or in front of the mirror, try to use the power of your voice. Really say what you need, what you want, what you hope for, what would make you happy. Say what angers, disappoints you and upsets you. Say what kind of support, relationships and friendships, you need. What you’re scared of, what hurts, what feels wonderful. As you practice connecting with your needs and voices them, you will be better equipped to balance and restore them in your outer world too.
NEW Moon
May New Moon
This is your season
to be blessed by your past pain,
befriend your oddness,
untame your wild heart
and rise like the sun
into a new dawn.
FULL MOON
Flower Full Moon
The Flower Full Moon Eclipse will remind you and nudge you to come back to yourself in some round-about way either through your existing path, or through a new and completely different course with the potential to begin a cycle that is completely different from what you have experienced before.