Queen of May

The May Queen is Waiting

“The new earth quickens as you rise.
The May Queen is waiting.
Feel the pulsing ground call you to journey,
To know the depths of your desire.
The May Queen is waiting.
Moving through the night, the bright moon’s flight.
In green and silver on the plain.
She waits for you to return again.
Do not keep Her waiting.
Her temper stings if you refuse to taste Her honey.
Surrender as enchantment brings
The first light of dawning.
Move with Her in sacred dance, through fear to feeling.
Bringing ecstasy to those who dare.
Living earth is breathing.
Loving through the night in the bright moonlight,
As seedlings open with the rain.
She’ll long for you to return again.
Do not keep Her waiting.”
–   Ruth Barren

Full Moon

Today’s full moon occurs at 10:37 pm EDT.

Here are some ways to celebrate the full moon

• Spend the evening at the seashore and watch the moonlight dance on the ocean waves.
• Take a walk as the full moon lights up the sky.
• Invite your friends to a full moon party in your backyard and serve moon shaped foods to celebrate the occasion.
• Fill the bath tub with hot water and add rose petals. Enjoy a nice relaxing rose petal bath.
• Offer a water blessing to a friend or loved one in honor of the full moon. Place spring water or sea water in a bowl and capture the reflection of the moonlight in the water. Use this water to bless loved ones, friends and family.

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator”.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Everyday Goddessing  is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside  each of us. – Rose Arizmendi

Daylight Savings Time

Get ready to spring forward one hour this weekend. Yes, it’s that time again. Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead on Sunday.

This excerpt from “The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks in 1947: written by Robertson Davies, pretty much sums up my feelings about the daylight savings time issue.

“I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.”