May Eve :: Correspondences
| Season | Initiates Summer |
|---|---|
| Time of Day | Morning |
| Direction | Southeast |
| Moon Phase | Waxing gibbous |
| Tide | Growing Tide |
| Colors | Green, red, white, yellow |
| Flowers | All flowers are appropriate, especially: bluebells, daisy, edelweiss, foxglove, lilac, lily of the valley, marsh marigold, roses |
| Animals | Bull, goat, hare, snakes, swallows |
| Mythological Creatures |
Faeiries, giants, Pegesus, satyrs |
| Plants | Birch, green yew, hawthorn, ivy, oak, willow |
| Herbs | Angelica, coltsfoot, cowslip, flowering almond |
| Incenses | Ash, cinquefoil, frankincense, meadowsweet, satyrian root, woodruff |
| Oils | Passionflower, rose, tuberrose, vanilla |
| Stones | Bloodstone, emerald, sapphire, yellow topaz |
| Zodiac | Taurus, the fertile, romantic earth sign |
| Decorations | Almond branches, bells, bonfires, chalice & athame, crossroads, flower chaplets, garlands of flowers and greens, hawthorn blooms, ivy, maybaskets, maypoles, wreaths |
| Foods | Dairy (especially goat dairy), flower wines, fava beans, fruits & nuts, honey, lemon, mead oatcakes, woodruff wine |
| Teas | Burdock, damiana, dandelion, hibiscus, oakbark, rose hip, saffron |
Traditional May Offerings
This is a traditional English chant to speak when handing out May baskets.
Good Morning, Mistress and Master, I wish you a happy day.
Please to smell my garland 'cause it is the first of May.
A branch of May I have brought you, and at your door I stand;
It is but a sprout, but it's well budded out…
The work of our Lady's hand.
But I must gather knots of flowers,
And buds and garlands gay,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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