The name of the month is garnered from the Greek Goddess Maia, the most important of the Seven Sisters (the Pleiades), and (some say) the mother of Hermes. Some form of this Goddess name is known from Ireland to India. She is known to be the mother of Hermes. In Rome she was called Maius, Goddess of Summer.<\/p>\n
Moon: <\/strong> The Hare Moon<\/p>\n Astrological Signs:<\/strong> Taurus, Gemini<\/p>\n Nature Spirits:<\/strong> Faeries, elves<\/p>\n Herbs:<\/strong> Dittany of Crete, elder, mint, rose, mugwort, thyme, yarrow<\/p>\n Colors:<\/strong> Green, brown, pink<\/p>\n Flowers:<\/strong> Lily of the valley, foxglove, rose, broom<\/p>\n Scents:<\/strong> Rose, sandalwood<\/p>\n Stones:<\/strong> Emerald (birth stone), malachite, amber, carnelian<\/p>\n Trees:<\/strong> Hawthorne<\/p>\n Animals:<\/strong> Cats, lynx, leopard<\/p>\n Birds:<\/strong> Swallow, dove, swan<\/p>\n Deities:<\/strong> Aphrodite, Artemis, Bast, Diana, Faunus, Flora, Maia, Pan, theHorned God, Venus, Horned God, and all Gods and Goddesses who preside over fertility<\/p>\n Powers:<\/strong> This is a good time to interact with spirits and faeries, a time of intuition, powers of the God<\/p>\n are the strongest. This is a good time to strengthen your own mental powers and feel the energy around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May Correspondences The name of the month is garnered from the Greek Goddess Maia, the most important of the Seven Sisters (the Pleiades), and (some say) the mother of Hermes. Some form of this Goddess name is known from Ireland to India. She is known to be the mother of Hermes. In Rome she was called Maius, Goddess of Summer. Moon: The Hare Moon Astrological Signs: Taurus, Gemini Nature Spirits: Faeries, elves Herbs: Dittany of Crete, elder, mint, rose, mugwort, thyme, yarrow Colors: Green, brown, pink Flowers: Lily of the valley, foxglove, rose, broom Scents: Rose, sandalwood Stones: Emerald (birth stone), malachite, amber, carnelian Trees: Hawthorne Animals: Cats, lynx, leopard Birds: Swallow, dove, swan Deities: Aphrodite, Artemis, Bast, Diana, Faunus, Flora, Maia, Pan, theHorned God, Venus, Horned God, and all Gods and Goddesses who preside over fertility Powers: This is a good time to interact with spirits and faeries, a time of intuition, powers of the God are the strongest. This is a good time to strengthen your own mental powers and feel the energy around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}