Cassandra Eason

Using playing cards, dice and dominoes, plus a two part course on tea-leaf reading.

Scorpio Full Moon May 1st 2026- read about it   HERE

May is named after Maia, the Graeco-Roman maiden goddess of flowers, whose festival was in early May. Flowers themselves take their name from Flora, Roman Goddess of Flowers whose festival, Floralia, lasted from 26 April and 3 May. She was called Khloris in the Ancient Greek tradition and was the wife of Zephyros, god of the West-Wind. Young people would traditionally collect baskets of flowers and leave them on doorsteps and children make tiny Flora images of flowers on May 1.

Time then to give flowers to those for whom we care or who are sick or unhappy. The saddest flowers are those fading on graves too late to be appreciated. Wherever you live in the world even if those flowers are autumnal, use the energies of May to improve your general fitness and health, especially if like me you have spent long months indoors and have become part of the couch.

The angel of May is Ambriel, Angel of dawn, wearing the colours of sunrise who brings and restores enthusiasm for life and learning new things, promising new love if your trust has been shattered and for dusting off creativity for sheer pleasure or maybe to starting a new sideline or career. Nurture relationships temporarily dulled by routine or worries, that nevertheless are embedded in love and loyalty. For it may be that reworked, they can be woven into bright May garlands of joy and new memories to make. 

Plan to make new friends and reconnect with old ones with whom you have lost touch, accepting those friendships that have run their course were once important and of worth and so let go with thanks and blessings. 

Enrol for an activity you never thought you would dare, channeling too the natural restlessness of blossoms cascading in the wind into a spontaneous long weekend or stay-cation, even as distant travel becomes more problematic. 

An excellent time for fertility especially if you have had difficulties and for making that career or study change previously consigned to the tomorrow of the right time. 

This above all is the month of hope and belief, in ourselves and all that whatever our age we can still attempt and achieve. Make a garland of different coloured flowers to decorate your home as a reminder of good times ahead and for each flower make a wish, some that will need all your power and optimism to fulfil. When they fade scatter the petals outdoors and watch the future dance, so by June, month of wise Mother Juno, we will know life can with nurturing be fulfilled. Love every moment of May and do not fear the fading of the blossoms, some of which will bear fruit or the dying of late autumnal blooms in your region, for they will return, as the passing months and years will shape your life into what is lovelier still to be.