May Witches Calendar
A peek into our monthly hats up in the Coven, this May featuring the work of Dante Rossetti lest we forget the sensuality of great art and human endeavour. Or is that just Taurus talking through me?
Well into the most ungrounded Taurus season in a long time, thanks to the ongoing revolution of humanity and its batshit architects of destruction. Every month this year has delivered a fresh planetary signature and a large raft of quaking changes in its wake. Now in May this new zodiac year’s first good earthing has been volcanic, magnifying the shaking ground we all still tread so heavily upon. Resources under constant threat and shortage looming. Democracy disappeared down a fissure. The threat of machines and mayhem as the only predictive model claiming all the flashing screens, serving unchecked consequence on the earth. The soma increasing its concentration as bodies are highjacked and nervous systems are fried, permission granted in a flashing click.
Taurus offers us a card carrying invitation to return to our true nature. The one that is closest to your soul self, that derives joy from its senses and this whirling around the sun. Life’s simplest pleasures are found in this domain, too often traded for the more questionable imperatives of modern life.
Taurus offers balm through the body, certainty through steady knowing grounded in lived existence. Perhaps a taller order this year swirling with uncertainty, rendering its care a fine art. Looking up remains its own reward. The astrology of May and beyond continues to move us from top down to ground up, from the few to the many, from the bad old ways to what is birthing from chaos, in quieter darker places than the main stage or the set-spangled multiverse.
Herewith our monthly magical calendar with all the key astrological aspects, moon sign and phase information. All the magical dates are in Australian (Sydney) Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Please adjust to the timezone and place you live this month for the power of perfect timing to really make a difference to your planning, and your life.
May 2
Full Moon in Scorpio at 3.22am aest 11° Scorpio
The scorpion’s moon blazes unaspected, solitary in a still stark sky, its revelations and reckonings will arrive sharply with the peak. In tandem we remain ‘neath the influence of ebbing evolutionary star games; Mars in rulership from Aries, supercharged and still in conversation with the stellium. Mercury and Chiron in conversation at the far end of the ram’s lair, raving about redemption to the moon who wrote its codex. Pluto in Aquaria in deeper conversation with Urania’s switch hitting than this shadow dancer’s moon, the dark lord already stationed to turn on us all in its wake. The shadows that show will determine the month and more to come.
Revisit our Full Mooner // Scorp Redemption arc or enjoy its Grounding Meditation throughout Taurus season
May 3
Mercury in Taurus at 12.56pm aest
Merc’s charge through Taurus on his way to his next adventure has unearthed where our minds may have got stuck in the mud of the old world and its inhumane tenets. They never worked for us, just for them. As revolution moves us all ready or not, Merc makes us play catch up fast. If Merc’s charge through Aries unleashed the bombast and occasional flamethrower, in the bull’s realm he patiently stitches mind back to body and measured consequence. The senses reclaim pride of place in our mental architecture. Now persistence pays off, practice makes perfect and discipline delivers. Consistency is a self love language. Pleasure is an intelligent state of grace. Every planetary ingress into Taurus squares off with the dark lord, weighing what yet lurks in the shadow against evolution. Every exit softens this angle into something we can harmonise with. Pluto playing fast and long with power and regeneration from a lofty perch in Aquaria, setting landmines by the gates.
May 5
Sabbat Tidings
The calendar sabbat of Beltane in the North and Samhain in the South is oft observed on the first day of May. In the Wheel of the Year the midpoint of the sun’s journey from equinox to solstice is found in the centre of Taurus, which this year is Tuesday 5th May at 9.37pm aest. Witches new to our Coven or the Wheel can dive into our Sabbat Tides collection here written for every sabbat and all corners of the earth.
May 7
Pluto Retrograde at 5° Aquarius
Pluto’s great work is ordinarily occulted, working from the ground down and the inside out. Hades clarion call to our humanity is seismically reshaping our realm, anarchic mode that is disrupt by design in service of the future. Pluto deals in shadows and the currency is power. Aquarius deals in frequencies and the currency is authenticity. There is no deep faking it from here, a ruse that will no longer hold water nor bear weight. Pluto’s retrograde will take us up to the threshold of Scorp season and conjure all the shadows that chain us to the past and keep us from our future visions. One at a time, darklings.
May 14
Dark Moon Phase begins
This month’s dark moon features a magical spark, but still begs you get your home ground in fresh order. Setting your own pace is one (difficult) thing but making time / space that is unscheduled is quite another. It can remain your monthly balm for the addled mind or weary soul if you plan to make it so. The three days of the dark moon are more likely to feel heavy in our stuck places and beg the balm of body based wisdom.
May 15
Dark Mooner // Taurus Crescent
We will be gathering again at 9am aest on Friday for our monthly dark mooner and all the info is in the link.
Our ritual circle for the Coven Devotional after the mooner will be focused on the myriad of rounding rituals on offer from the sequence incoming around the new moon in Taurus. This is a potent seeding ground that will influence the rest of your year.