MAY FESTIVAL (6th May)and/or Mayday
The Festival of the Northeast
As we continue our yearly cycle around The Shamanic Medicine Wheel, symbolic of the earth's travel around the sun. We arrive at the Festival of the Northeast, The May Festival. At this time our ancestors teach us how we can celebrate with them around the May tree and Maypole. We make garlands of spring flowers and ribbons to decorate the Maytree/Pole and dance and sing around it. Pan, the horned god, makes an appearance to lead us in our dance. He helps us open up our senses to be in tune with the Earth .We become one with the essence of the stone, plant and animal people. We become intoxicated with the wealth of shapes and forms around us, to be enchanted by the nurturing bosom of our Great Earth Mother. She receives all her children into her loving bosom, energising and giving us the renewal of life itself. Heaven and Earth love one another and let us take part in the feast, so that we may discover healing in the Oneness of all beings.
The pulsating sap and the emerging leaves of the May Tree reaches over and touches us and we feel its current, its upward surge from the roots to the crown. Our blood quickens in unison through all our arteries, and its healing green of life envelops us like a blanket of leaves.
We have come to the Maytree with our medicine shields to display and share them with all our companions in the Dance. The Power of Motion, the powers of the Nagual, the sacred nine and nineteen come to us in this Celebration. They shower us with their horn of plenty to move our medicine, to transform it more and more into the healing elixir-- one that will beautify the Earth. Our four shields become round: we dance with them and balance their four lights in all of the four sacred directions.
As we make contact with our older brothers and sisters in the stone, animal and plant kingdoms they help us dive into the world of matter. We listen to the sounds and vibrations of their language; we smell their scents and taste the composition of their Work. The splendours of colours around us streams into our bodies and lets its light shine like a rainbow that arches across Heaven and Earth.
Grandfather Peter
(Walk gently and feel the Great Mother
The Festival of the Northeast
As we continue our yearly cycle around The Shamanic Medicine Wheel, symbolic of the earth's travel around the sun. We arrive at the Festival of the Northeast, The May Festival. At this time our ancestors teach us how we can celebrate with them around the May tree and Maypole. We make garlands of spring flowers and ribbons to decorate the Maytree/Pole and dance and sing around it. Pan, the horned god, makes an appearance to lead us in our dance. He helps us open up our senses to be in tune with the Earth .We become one with the essence of the stone, plant and animal people. We become intoxicated with the wealth of shapes and forms around us, to be enchanted by the nurturing bosom of our Great Earth Mother. She receives all her children into her loving bosom, energising and giving us the renewal of life itself. Heaven and Earth love one another and let us take part in the feast, so that we may discover healing in the Oneness of all beings.
The pulsating sap and the emerging leaves of the May Tree reaches over and touches us and we feel its current, its upward surge from the roots to the crown. Our blood quickens in unison through all our arteries, and its healing green of life envelops us like a blanket of leaves.
We have come to the Maytree with our medicine shields to display and share them with all our companions in the Dance. The Power of Motion, the powers of the Nagual, the sacred nine and nineteen come to us in this Celebration. They shower us with their horn of plenty to move our medicine, to transform it more and more into the healing elixir-- one that will beautify the Earth. Our four shields become round: we dance with them and balance their four lights in all of the four sacred directions.
As we make contact with our older brothers and sisters in the stone, animal and plant kingdoms they help us dive into the world of matter. We listen to the sounds and vibrations of their language; we smell their scents and taste the composition of their Work. The splendours of colours around us streams into our bodies and lets its light shine like a rainbow that arches across Heaven and Earth.
Grandfather Peter
(Walk gently and feel the Great Mother
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