MAY
THE HARE MOON
May is named after Maia, the most important of the seven sisters, or Pleiads. She is known to be the mother of Hermes. In Rome she was called Maius, Goddess of Summer.
May Correspondences
NATURE SPIRITS: Faeries and elves
HERBS: Dittany of Crete, elder, mint, rose, mugwort, thyme, yarrow
COLORS: green, brown and pink
FLOWERS: lily of the valley, foxglove, rose, broom
SCENTS: rose and sandalwood
STONES: emerald, malachite, amber, carnelian
TREES: hawthorn
ANIMALS: cats, lynx, leopard
BIRDS: swallow, dove and swan
DEITIES: Bast, Venus, Aphrodite, Maia, Diana, Artemis, pan, Horned God.
FULL MOON ENERGY: This is a good time to interact with spirits and faeries, a time of intuition, powers of the God are the strongest.
NEW MOON ENERGY: psychic, divination work
May is the time for strengthening the connections with supernatural protectors and beings around you. The energy is in full flow making this a good time for intuition, propagating, and connecting with faeries and nature spirits.
May: Hare Moon. Mating season has arrived. Animals and people enjoy the warm freedom. Flowers are abundant. People gather their strength from the hardship of winter. Candle colour for this moon is pink, symbolic of the emotion of love and lust, instinctive of all animals, including humans
April according to Cunningham
As the Hare Moon of April waxes full, observe the rabbits leaping and playing, carefree in their mating and joyful in their games, and as you cast your Esbat Circle and joyfully dance the round, feel within your heart the carefree nature of the wild creatures that are also children of the Old Gods.
Names this Hare Moon is known as:
- Dryad Moon
- Merry Moon
- Bright Moon
- Flower Moon
- Frogs Return Moon
- Thirmilcmonath (Thrice- Milk Month)
- Sproutkale,
- Winnemanoth (Joy Month)
- Planting Moon
- Moon When the Ponies Shed
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