The Flower Moon
Continuing the “Moons of the Year”
series, here now is the installment for the month of May, “The Flower Moon.”
The name of the full moon for the month
of May, the second in the month of Spring, is known as the Flower Moon, as this
is the month of the year that many flowers are in bloom. The website “What’s
Your Sign” has a wonderful explanation of the name of the moon:
“Quite
simply, May brings bright brushes to paint the earth canvas with infinite
flowers. In the full moon light of this month, the flowers are said to grow at
night, and even dance in honor of the moon.”
It is also known as the Milk Moon. As the
cows began to graze on the newly sprouted flora, the quality of their milk
improved.
It is also known as the Corn Moon, as
this is the time of year that corn is ready to plant.
This year’s Flower Moon will be a rare
sight in the nighttime sky. It seems that the wealth of flowers in bloom will
be mirrored by the size of the moon itself this month. Astronomers report that
the moon will appear full before its full moon phase officially begins on May
10. Photographers should have their cameras ready; this rarity should produce
wonderful images of the moon.
The website “Addicted to Astrology” has
advice regarding this full moon:
“Follow
your intuition…and tone down any extremes when dealing in your
communications…the signs of Scorpio and Taurus will be the most popular signs
[during the full moon] as they will radiate charm, sex appeal and can make
strides in whatever they hope to achieve.”
*Source: Bustle: https://www.bustle.com/p/when-is-the-may-2017-full-moon-the-flower-moon-indicates-the-arrival-of-intensity-abundance-51544
Addicted to Astrology
website: http://www.addictedtoastrology.com/
Remarkably, the Flower Moon played
prominently in a famous FBI murder case from almost a century ago. There is a
new book by David Grann entitled: “Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage
Murders and the Birth of the FBI.” The History Channel’s website went into
detail about the book:
“One
by one, Mollie Burkhart’s family turned up dead. Her sister Anna had been
discovered in a ravine in May 1921 with a bullet wound to the back of her head.
Following the shooting of a cousin less than two years later, Mollie’s sister
Rita and her husband were killed when an explosion reduced their house to kindling.
Mollie suspected poison was to blame for the unexplained ailment that killed
her mother, and in retrospect, even the ‘wasting illness’ that had killed a
third sister, Minnie, in 1918 seemed suspicious.
It
wasn’t just Mollie’s family that was being methodically killed on Oklahoma’s
Osage Nation Reservation in the early 1920s. More than two dozen members of the
Osage tribe had been shot, stabbed, beaten and bombed in one of the bloodiest
crime sprees in American history. Investigators who probed the case too deeply
also had a propensity for turning up dead. One attorney with information on the
case was thrown off a speeding train, while the body of Barney McBride, a
wealthy white oilman who agreed to go to Washington, D.C., to ask federal
authorities to investigate the murders, was found stripped, beaten and stabbed
more than 20 times in a Maryland culvert in what the Washington Post called ‘the
most brutal in crime annals in the District’…..
“In
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” Grann picks up the case and reveals the even
wider conspiracy in the Osage murders, which may have numbered in the hundreds.
‘There really was a culture of killing and a culture of complicity. That’s what
makes these crimes so sinister and disturbing…this really was about a clash of
two civilizations, the emergence of modern law enforcement and how important it
is to be a country of laws.’”
*Source: History Channel:
This crime against the Osage Nation was
the first major case to be handled by the newly founded Federal Bureau of
Investigations, then led by J. Edgar Hoover. To learn more about the crimes perpetrated
on the Osage Nation and this new book, please consult the following websites:
The official start of the full moon phase
will be this Wednesday, May 10. However, the special effect of seeing the moon
as full will begin tonight, May 8. Take a moment to look at the moon. Take a
moment to pause and reflect. Listen to your heart and your mind. Heed the
advice it gives you. I pray the Flower Moon gives you insight, clarity, peace,
love, joy, health and happiness.
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