#grass moon

My whole body is warm and sticky like a child’s car seat just waiting, just waiting, in the dark the blue heron that lives in Laurelhurst Park is breathing and there is a wind that is coming all over the flowers and all the ferns. I’m on my way to myself, that’s what I’m told, that’s what all the people who want me to be alive keep saying, they keep standing on the beach wearing old-fashioned swim trunks with a bullhorn telling me about it, and you are home in your bed like a soft animal with really intense feelers and a kind of knowledge some people have to go out into the desert to get, some people have to take drugs for that and walk barefoot over coals and pretend that nature is a mother always wringing her hands over her lost children. I’m making a museum for myself out of pictures of people I used to know and hold and their brains are like carnations floating in milk when I think of them I think what do I really want out of this branch I picked up off the street which does not belong to me at all. Last night I asked the ceiling what was going to happen, and it said this is what is going to happen: you will have to stay in your body for much longer than you really want to, and I thought about how nice it felt the first time I shaved my head and walked out into the rain and how the rain walked all over my head and how when I hear someone yelling something at someone else, when I hear someone throwing something across a room, I want the world to be my laundry— quiet and good and neatly folded away.

it the fish moon or the egg 

moon; it will shine down. 

Tempus vernum—springtime. This is a month of dewy mornings and frequent showers that coax the flowers from the bosom of Mother Earth. Leaves are coming onto the trees, and the world is nourished by heavenly rains. Brilliant sunny mornings can give way to blustery, rainy afternoons. Water is important in this season to nourish the things that are only beginning to grow. From water we are born, with water we are nourished.

Moon of the Waters: Life is bursting fourth with renewed vigor, and the earth is turning many shades of lush green. Each rain shower seems to bring more plants and trees to life. In the moonlight the softness of spring becomes a shimmering pool of life-force energy that feeds our bodies and souls.

Other names for this moon: Seed Moon, Grass Moon, Rain Moon.

In the Celtic Tree Calendar: April 1 – 14: Alder Associated associated with courage, strength, and evolving one’s spirit; Celtic hero Bran.

April 15 – 30: Willow Associated with enchantment and death; willow trees are usually found growing near water; Celtic goddesses Danu and Morigan.

Grass Moon of May

What can I say about this month’s Full Moon that has not been said before? It occurs tonight, May 18th, at 5:11 P.M. in Paradelle. But you might have looked up last night and said, “Oh, it’s a Full Moon tonight,” because it certainly looked pretty full then.

This May Full Moon is often called the Flower Moon, for obvious reasons. Things are probably blooming in your Northern Hemisphere…