✿ The Maypole ✿

A celebration of May Day, spring, and the dance of renewal

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✿ Today's May Blessing ✿

Your Ribbon: Yellow

Your Flower: Cherry Blossom

Your Guide: The Milkmaids

May Wisdom: A hawthorn branch brought inside invites the fairies—with all their mischief

"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go"
— Christopher Morley

Today's Tradition: Russia

Первомай (Pervomai)

May Day parades evolved from Soviet workers' celebrations to spring festivals with demonstrations and concerts

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Weave Your Own Blessing


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"Come, let us go while the morning is fine,
And weave a fair garland of roses and thyme."

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The Maypole · Session 88 · May Day 2026