May . 2025
Heart on your sleeve ~
Half of you and
an infinite other half
bound together and
hanging now on the peg
of a star.
(What was your wish?)
Be so open at the heart
that life beats out of the night
sky to find you.
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May: Heart on your sleeve.
You can’t choose when life arrives to you, catches you up in its green rope and lassos you to your destiny.
But you can choose to receive.
And I do believe receptivity is a choice.
You can choose to receive or choose to enforce your own will.
And once, an oracle told me that I (me) have a hard time receiving… and it was amongst the truest things she said during the hour we were together.
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May is spilling over with life: I don’t need to tell you this, simply look out your window or step outside your door.
All around you will find examples of just how out of your control receiving life truly is.
And this is time now: to be open to it: which means you can’t know ahead of time what to expect you just need to head first arrive into the world and take your first breath.
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What I am getting at here is this: you, I, we: need to suspend our desire to control life—to know an outcome—and actually give ourselves over to the immense blossoming that is happening without and within.
Like any birth, you don’t get to choose the due-date.
Rather, it chooses you.
It chooses you and gives you: gift of self.
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The wish you thought you were hiding in your hands, behind your back, slipped out through your fingers like water and drained itself into the center of a star.
And now, I am telling you, the star is about to fall, to land in your lap, all you need to do is surrender.
Surrender unroots you from what you've (mistakenly believed you’ve) been clutching for dear life in both hands held behind your back.
Bring your hands up in front of you right now—
there’s nothing there, is there?
And oh, you’ve let go of control. And certainly, you are falling. And yes, you’ve gotten out of the way of life. And so, it can greet you with the full lipped kiss of a new mother on your sweet head.
Not knowing what is about to happen is not a punishment, it is a gift.
It is the gift of not understanding the contours of a face you’ve never met before, of never being able to imagine how the field will blossom each spring.
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Your only true job for the month of May is as follows: live with your heart wide open, open wide, receptive to, on the very edge of expectancy…
and don’t cling
and don’t strain
and don’t struggle
against.
Be blossom unfurling
be raindrop from the sky
be star shooting trailing behind it wishlight.
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Okay, the almanac for May is here and it is one in which I’ve tried to gather simple things in which to support openness - receptivity /or/ being open to the element of surprise.
And it actually does feature a surprise: an almanac within an almanac. Glyn Maier has gifted us something special and I’ve tucked it into the center of this like the pit of a peach like the hazelnut in the center of a square of chocolate like a Matryoshka doll.
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Find it all below ~
T A S T E
A way to activate and attune to your sensuality and sexuality is to get real intimate with your work and other crafts that call for the use of your hands. You do not necessarily need an other to partake in the tantra—you simply need to fully involve all of your senses in whatever you are doing at any moment, even if it’s just a little dance with yourself. Make a practice of refining your craft by practicing it as you would a tantric exchange with a lover. Play around a bit; Damiana is going to help you loosen up and simultaneously supercharge your mental focus so that your engagement is more thorough.
— Elsie Lopez of Gold Water Alchemy
Damiana (Turnera diffusa)
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