Life Between Two Moons
Hi, there -
I’m entering May the way I enter sacred ground - carefully, reverently, already knowing it will ask something of me.
The sky is generous with signs this month. May opened with the Flower Moon, what some traditions have called the Mothers' Moon, and closes with a Blue Moon on the last night. Two full illuminations, thirty-one days apart; the whole month held between two lamps. May hasn't carried two moons like this in years, and won't again for years more.
I, too, am beginning this month differently than I've begun any before it.
In April, I received my Ifá warriors - my guardians who stand at the thresholds, who clear the road, who protect the journey that is a life. And then I traveled to Peru, to sacred sites that have held human longing and human healing for centuries, to reattune to the Munay-Ki rites - transmissions of the medicine traditions that live in the body’s luminous field.
I came home changed. I always do, from these encounters. But this time the changing feels structural, like something has been seated more deeply in its right place. Which is perhaps why April asked what it did of me, so that I could arrive in May with both hands free to hold it.
And now: May, a month that asks much of me.
Mother's Day has long been a celebration in my life, a day that felt made for and of me. And now, it lives in close proximity to the anniversary of my beloved daughter's transition to the spirit world. These two things sit together in May like two full moons in one month: both luminous, one joyful and one grieving, neither canceling the other out.
Healing has taught me this: you do not have to choose. You can let celebration and sorrow occupy the same sky. The Flower Moon asks us to bloom. But flowers don't bloom in spite of the dark soil; they bloom because of what they are fed there. And when the Blue Moon rises on the last night of May, I'll be ready to receive it - more rooted, more fed than when I began, because you cannot know the moon without knowing the darkness that holds it.
I arrive here prepared in ways I couldn't have planned. The month is full, in every sense. May we let it be.
In munay,
Taniesha
If You Feel Called: This month, I'm offering readings and energy healing on weekends only - a choice I'm making to tend to myself as I settle into this season. In Faith's memory, and to honor all of us carrying both grief and celebration this May, I'm offering 20% off all readings and energy healing sessions. Use code MAYMOONS at booking; valid through May 31, 2026.