Sowing Dreams Beneath the Flower Moon

If there was ever a time to work with flowers – whether through medicine-making, storytelling, or magick, it’s now.

Just ask the moon.

Nicknamed the Flower Moon, Planting Moon, Budding Moon, and Egg Laying Moon, traditionally, May is dedicated to blossoming plants and the humans who care for them.

This year, the Full Flower Moon coincides with a total lunar eclipse. It’s also a supermoon.

In much of the Northern Hemisphere, wildflowers are springing up, seeds are (continually) being sowed, and gardens kept. We’re reminded that like the garden, our growth does not follow a linear path, but a spiral dance.

In the words of Starhawk, “the use of language to shape consciousness is an important branch of magick.”

During this month, the Month of Flowers, it might be helpful to take note of how you care for what’s rooted in the outside world, but also internally. Do we speak in flowers or thistle? Are our thorns in need of trimming and boundaries redrawn?

Beneath the light of this Flower Moon, may we recognize that we are more than our to-do lists, job titles, and our capitalist responsibilities. Like Mother Earth and her flowers, we are infinite, fruitful beings, with the capacity to bloom again and again.