Greetings Friends, and welcome to the last cycle of spring: the Flowering Time. This is a time of expanding awareness and an influx of knowledge but also one of immaturity. Like the seedlings in a garden, which have grown enough to approximate the form of adult plants but are not yet fully grown, so, too, is this a time when true understanding, though on its way, can seem blocked and not yet here. Hence, it is time to redouble our efforts, taking care to water the young plants and nurture the soil so they may grow to full stature, bearing fruit. Use every opportunity that presents itself to extend your vision, exercise your intuition and expand the stretch of your senses so that you, too, can grow to produce fruit in the coming season.

During this month, solar influences are strengthening, growing toward summer solstice, and people born in this cycle feel the need for increasing and intensifying their creative expression. It is also a time of powerful East Winds, bursting forth with an energizing force that moves beyond the awakening and activating of spring into full transformation. Because it is a time of air and fire, things tend to happen quickly and radical changes may occur to those who yield to the winds blowing about them. If you feel you have only got so far and desire true change or breakthroughs in your life, now is a good time to water your own garden. Concentrate on self-development, hold an openness of spirit, and maintain a broad vision, looking beyond the immediate trees to the greater forest. In due season, you will reap the harvest.

The totems for the Flowering Time are Deer, Agate and Mullein. The elemental influence is Air with Fire, the direction is South-east, and the clan is Butterfly. More about these later. :-)