About The Beginning of Summer

May 5 - 20
First Pentad, May 5 - 9
Second Pentad, May 10 - 14
Third Pentad, May 15 - 20

There is a vibrancy to all our days now. May is a month of merriment, and we can feel it in the weather. The cooler days of spring are behind us, and mother nature has found her foothold in the year: there is a sense of growth and vigor to all living things. The growth is still new - it is the beginning of summer, after all - but already we can feel the change. Perhaps we have noticed the transience of the flowers of spring; those shining, fragile early blossoms may have already begun to wilt in the warmer weather - yet May is not a time for melancholy. It is a time for abundance and bursting forth. Let’s take joy in this month with our hearts fully open to the reliably warm weather, the beauty of the new green coming up, and the promise of summer ahead.