May Day Blessings
Aquarius / Pisces / Aries
Happy May Day! A day of spring, celebration, and uplifting workers everywhere! My life has been a bit of a rollercoaster lately (why this post is a day late, in fact), but I’ve been itching to post something - so here is a little tarot montage/collage about dreaming more beautiful dreams than billionaires. May you get outside and let the sun shine on your face today!
There are men in charge of our country who’ve never worked a day in their life.
Men who want to force people into work that they themselves would never do (or expect their own children to do). Men who do all that they can to never pay taxes on their wealth…but then use taxes as an excuse to erase disabled people.
Men who brag about returning us to a time when workers rights were horrifically low. “Gilded age”, my ass!1
Since January I’ve been listening to Patti Smith’s song, People Have the Power. This phrase, along with a few others2 have been like anchors for me in the midst of cultural chaos. In the midst of this apocalyptic nightmare. And I do mean apocalypse - the uncovering of all the greedy and racist foundations of this country. Reminding myself that the PEOPLE are what make this country, not the delusional billionaires, is one thing I can do to stay rooted in my values.
This song simultaneously buoys me and holds me steady.
Since I last wrote we have walked through Aquarius and Pisces season at the end of winter (Star & Moon card), and we’ve welcomed spring with Aries (the Emperor). The cards that correspond with these seasonal changes are also bringing me great clarity. So here’s a little collage of images and words to send us into the weekend!
“I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near”
The Star card inspires! It sends down creative energy that allows peace and radical problem-solving. The men in charge have no imaginations! They can only see what’s right in front of them - their money and power. They don’t use their imaginations for building a better world, they only dismantle. They only break things. Inside their chaos, what do you dream?
The Moon is a card that guides us when things are dark, chaotic, broken, uncertain. We can follow the light of the Moon and our own intuition. We can use our collective imagination to not just envision something so much more beautiful than what our government envisions…but to creatively interrupt their agents of chaos, and to build something different together.
We can meet our neighbors, make disruptive art, gather our loved ones for a meal and singing, volunteer at a local nonprofit, build a birdhouse, walk and protest, join our local credit union, shop local and tip well, call our grandpa and tell him we miss him, do good work - tending, gardening, mending, holding.
“where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found”
The Emperor is a card of fire & power. I think
said, the Emperor sits on the throne of her own autonomy. No preacher or politician gets to tell me who I am. And my own beating heart is the fire in my chest.International Worker’s Day commemorates the execution of seven workers in Chicago who were organizing to demand an 8-hour work day. Before his execution, defendant August Spies told the court: “Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.”
People have the power - when we work together, when we keep the flame of our hearts alive.
“and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste in the dust”
We have power.
The power to dream,
The power to rule,
To wrestle the world from fools.
I’m gonna keep dreaming. I’m glad you’re here.
And one more song for you… Happy International Worker’s Day <3
Most of these links come from
and you can follow her exceptional work and writing at Pocket Observatory.Some of my favorites:
“Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.”
”Inside the chaos, build a temple of Love.” Rumi
”Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God!”
”Each of us must find our work and do it!” Audre Lorde
“We can meet our neighbors, make disruptive art, gather our loved ones for a meal and singing, volunteer at a local nonprofit, build a birdhouse, walk and protest, join our local credit union, shop local and tip well, call our grandpa and tell him we miss him, do good work - tending, gardening, mending, holding.”
Yes yes yes—thank you for the reminder that May Day is not just a celebration of spring and flowers, but a call to remember workers who have lost their lives and a call to dream of a better world.
I read something the other day politicians wanting to go back to the glory of the Industrial Revolution and I was like “I’ve read Sister Carrie, it wasn’t great!”
“the Emperor sits on the throne of her own autonomy. No preacher or politician gets to tell me who I am. And my own beating heart is the fire in my chest.” yes Yes YES 🦚🐆🦁