There's great magic on the 1st of May or May Day. The ancient Celtic people divided the year into two seasons - Winter and Summer. May 1st was the dividing point and signaled the change from the end of the dark and dead winter weather to the beginning of the warm summer and growing season. There was great joy and excitement that the warmer weather was officially here to stay for a whole season. No wonder they had a celebration! To share in some of this magic, you need to wake up early enough to collect some of the dew on the morn of May 1st ... and gently smooth it across your face. I can attest to the truth that this beauty treatment is particularly refreshing! No hawthorn tree? No worries. An alternate verse allows you to use dew drops from any tree, bush or even the grass. Happy May Day! Meadow Sweet Grove © V. Buchanan 2017 / edited 2020
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When you're doing your Spring Cleaning this year, also remember to be humble. While an invitation to a Royal Ball may not be in our immediate futures, we can certainly take pleasure in cleaning and tidying our own precious homes and treasured possessions. We may find things to donate along the way that we no longer need, bring out the beauty of furniture and silver cutlery with a good polish or uncover a lost item. To help you along, don't forget that Walt Disney knew a great and powerful magic that he incorporated in many of his productions. Sing while you work! Or put on your favourite music. It really does make the work go faster. There is nothing more enchanting than Disney's scene of Cinderella, in rags, scrubbing the entry hall, masterfully singing, "Sing Sweet Nightingale" ... while her Step-Sisters, with all the advantages in the world, are upstairs butchering the song! So Spring Clean like Cinderella and watch the good magic come back to you in your fresh and tidy clean home. Meadow Sweet Grove © V. Buchanan 2017 / edited 2021
How appropriate then that even now, bunnies are often shown as a young girl's companion in modern art or home decor. Perhaps, in older times, the Spring Maiden, or Ostara, was accompanied by an Oster Hare, as the Easter Bunny is called in Germany. There is some contention on this matter as to whether or not the Spring Goddesses of ancient days were connected with hares, eggs and other symbols of Spring at all ... or if it is a more modern connection recorded around the time that the Grimm Brothers collected their fairy tales. It matters little to us plebeians! In the eternal mind, the connection was made because it is the correct one. Bunnies and girls both represent youth, vitality and beginnings ... in every way the very essence of Spring! Meadow Sweet Grove © V. Buchanan 2017 / edited 2019 / 2021 / 2023
The hopping Easter Bunny, with a spring in his step, is such an appropriate fellow to be hiding eggs on Easter morning. There are so many bunnies born in the Spring that I'm sure he'll find all the recruits he needs for this important job. And Spring is such a pretty time with flowers and blossoms of pinks, purples, whites and gold, that of course, he has to reflect this cheerful time on his painted gifts. Thank you Easter Bunny - please may mine be chocolate? Meadow Sweet Grove © V. Buchanan 2017 |
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