Flower Power: Flower Moon Spiritual Meaning and Stunning Magic
In 2024, the Full Moon of May is called the Flower Moon. Its spiritual meaning is important to many spiritual practitioners. In this post, I’ll discuss everything you want to know, and I even include ritual celebration ideas! Let’s jump in!
Every full moon has its own name based on the month or the season in which it appears. Creating a name for each full Moon allowed people to reflect on each season and how it affects them AND the natural world. There can be some variation on the Full Moon names due to the origins from whence they came.
Most Full Moon names are English translations of Native American names; others are rooted in Celtic, European (Anglo-Saxon and Germanic), and more recent Neo-Pagan origins. I created a guide to each Full Moon, complete with their meanings and how you can celebrate
Please note that I make every effort to ensure this information is correct and accurate through my own experiences and referencing sources throughout AND at the bottom of this article.
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When is the Full Moon in May 2024?
In 2024, May’s Full Moon is called the Flower Moon. It takes place on May 23rd and peaks at 9:53 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Flower Moon 2024 Spiritual Meaning
The Full Moon of May is named the Flower Moon to symbolize – you guessed it – all the flowers bursting into bloom right now. The last bit of frost is ending, and soil that was recently hard and cold is now bursting with life and possibilities.
The Flower Moon spiritual meaning is about blossoming into your best self and reaching your highest potential. It’s a powerful reminder of the cycles of life and the importance of embracing change and growth.
May’s Flower Moon signifies both fertility and healing. It’s sometimes known as the Hare Moon because we know what they’re up to this time of year. We’re talking about some serious fertility, people!
Flowers and herbs are now flourishing. Remember that we’re still in the season of Beltane, and many spiritual practitioners believe this Full Moon is a promising time for those trying to conceive.
Flower Moon 2024 Correspondences
The spiritual meaning of May’s Full Flower Moon is a powerful time for hopeful intentions, magic, joy, and happiness. To get you started, here are some spiritual correspondences and intentions!
Flower Moon Intentions
- Abundance
- Pleasure
- Romance
- Fertility
- Laughter
- Fun
Colors
- Orange
- Yellow
- Red
- Green
How I Celebrate the Full Moon of May
Discover the magic of May’s Flower Moon as we explore its spiritual meaning with celebrations and personal rituals. Now is the time to bring goals and dreams to life. You might need to answer some hard questions about yourself and what needs to happen to make your intentions materialize.
This is when the Earth is bursting with live and blossoming flowers. During May’s Full Flower Moon, embrace change and growth. Let’s tap into this beautiful energy to grow and nurture our best selves!
Check out Full Moon Rituals to Manifest Insane Energy for even more ritual ideas!
Flower Moon Journal Prompts
Another great way to celebrate the Flower Moon is by journaling your thoughts and intentions. This will help you evolve and connect with your spiritual practice.
Here are some prompts to get you started:
Lunar Infused Tea
Instead of sun tea, try a lunar-infused tea! Water and herbs can easily manifest the moon’s energy. Similar to creating Moon Water, meditate with the jar in your hands, focus, and visualize your goals and intentions before leaving the infusion to sit out all night beneath the Moon.
In the morning, you’re left with a delicious and nourishing cold brew tea, ready to enjoy. Make sure to whisper your gratitude to the Moon before you take your tea away. If you’re going to ingest the magic Moon water, I would suggest using bottled or filtered water.
Full Moon May Divination
As the Flower Moon shines bright in the sky, it invites us to connect with our spirituality through divination. The moonlight helps our intuitive powers shine brighter.
During May’s Full Moon, Nature is in full bloom, and so is our connection with the spiritual realm. Embrace the wisdom of the Flower Moon, and use it to guide your divination. Here are a few ideas to help get you started:
A Flower Moon Candle Ritual for Passion and Sensuality
Let’s bring the intoxicating energy of Beltane and the Flower Moon together to create a ritual designed to enhance healthy sensual love. This candle ritual uses a red-colored candle because it’s connected with romance and seduction. It’s a great addition if your sex life needs a boost.
I suggest using olive oil to anoint your red candle because olives ensure sexual vitality and enhance lust.** I recommend using ground cinnamon and clove because they help attract a lover; it’s also likely you already have them in your kitchen. However, feel free to use the anointing oils and herbs of your choice.
If you’d like to do a love spell instead, check out this article.
Gather Your Supplies
- One red candle (I recommend taper or chime, but any type is fine. If you need help deciding, check out my YouTube video: Beginner Candle Magic )
- Olive oil
- Ground cinnamon
- Ground clove
- Matches or a lighter
- Candle holder or fire-safe space to burn it
- Journal, notebook, or grimoire (optional)
Prepare Your Ritual Candle
Find an uninterrupted area where you can create a sacred space to prepare your ritual candle. Cleanse the candle and space in the method of your choice (the article linked is specifically for crystals, but the methods used still apply). Remember to open at least one window so any negative energy you remove has a place to leave.
Find a cozy spot to sit in front of your candle and relax. Take a few deep breaths to center your awareness and connect with yourself. Dress and anoint your ritual candle. As you do this, focus on the intention of bringing deep connection and abundance to your relationship.
HOW TO CLEANSE AND DRESS A SPELL CANDLE
Set Your Intentions Together
Find a quiet, comfortable space where you and your partner can feel relaxed and undisturbed. Create an ambiance with soft lighting and music of your choice to set the mood.
Sit together and take a few moments to connect with each other. Hold the candle between your hands and share your intentions for the ritual. Speak from the heart about the abundance of love and deep connection you both want to cultivate.
Begin The Ritual
Place your fire-safe dish or bowl somewhere you can keep an eye on it and somewhere it’s safe to burn a candle.
Light the candle with the understanding that the flame symbolizes the passion and desire you share. As the flame flickers, visualize the energy of love and abundance growing between you.
Allow the candle to burn as you engage in a sacred and sensual love-making ritual. Let the energy of the flame infuse your connection with heightened passion, deepening the bond between you and your partner.
Close the Ritual with Gratitude
After the ritual, take a moment to reflect on the experience together. Share your thoughts, feelings, and emotions; express why you’re grateful for your partner.
If the candle burned down completely during the ritual, dispose of its remnants in the trash or bury it on your property. If it didn’t burn completely, you have two options:
- Allow it to burn down completely and dispose of its remnants in the trash or bury it on your property
- Snuff out the candle, and repeat this ritual repeatedly until the candle burns out completely
This Candle Magic Ritual is enhanced by your love and the spiritual energy of the Flower Moon and Beltane. I hope it becomes a powerful celebration of love, pleasure, and the deep connection you share with your partner. May it bring abundance and joy to your relationship.
Flower Infused Rituals
We’ve all heard the phrase “stop and smell the roses,” but we rarely take the time. Find a way to slow down and take pleasure in the floral beauty all around right now. Think of creative ways to incorporate them into your life or hobbies.
Make it specific for the time of year using plants that are starting to bloom and grow. Mint, lilacs, pansies, dandelions, ground phlox, etc. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- Press flowers that you can use in your journal, grimoire, card, gift tag, or use for artwork. Adding to a grimoire or journal page can be a great reference for later. You can include all the information you know about this specific flower.
- Integrate some into your baking or cooking. It would be wonderful in bread, salad, or tea. You could create sugar flowers to add to cakes or cookies. You could even try my Enchanting Flower and Herb Spread.
- Make stovetop potpourri
- Include some in a sachet bag you can place under your pillow or in a drawer
- Create rosewater or another floral water. You can incorporate it into rituals, on your altar, or simply spray your linens with
- Mix with some bath salts and use for a bath
- If you enjoy creating your own paper, adding flowers creates a wonderful botanical aesthetic
- Mix with any other herbs you have to create your own eco-friendly smoke cleanser
- Create a homemade salve, oil, or lotion for a Flower Moon meditation ritual.
- Add to candles or soap
If you’re short on time, keep it simple and buy yourself some fresh flowers. Don’t forget to fully slow down, indulge in their beauty, and enjoy their sweet scent.
Magical Fae Gathering: A Flower Moon Ritual
As the radiant Flower Moon graces the night sky, we still find ourselves in the season of Beltane. During this magical time, the veil between our world and the otherworld grows thin (similar to Samhain). The Fae are active right now, so it’s an excellent time for offerings.
If you’d like to work with the Fae or learn more about them, check out Types of Fae – Discover Their Folklore and Magic. Here are some celebration ideas to get you started:
Full Moon May 2024 Alternative Names
- Milk Moon (Anglo-Saxon) from the Old English Rimilcemona. They called it the Milk Moon because cows were milked more frequently this time of year! (Source: Time and Date)
- Planting Month (anisgvti) Cherokee, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina
- Harpa Moon (Norse origins) (source: Nordic Culture – Skjalden)
- Dancing Moon (Tahch’ahipu) Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
- Hare Moon or Bright Moon (Celtic) (Source: Time and Date)
- Budding Moon (Zaagibagaa-giizis) or Suckerfish Moon (Namebine-giizis) Ojibwe (western and eastern dialects respectively) (Source: Ojibwe.net)
- Grass Moon (Neo-Pagan)
- Frost Moon (South African origins) (source: Centre for Astronomical Heritage)
- Moon of Mulberry (Hash Bihi) Choctaw Southeast, Mississippi, Louisiana
For a list of even more Native American Moon names, check out the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association’s article here or Western Washington University’s article here.
Is the Full Moon of May 2024 a Supermoon?
No, the Full Moon of May will NOT be a supermoon.
However, there will be TWO supermoons in September and October this year!
Will May’s Flower Moon Have A Lunar Eclipse in 2024?
No, May’s Full Moon will not have a Lunar Eclipse this year.
However, there will be two Lunar Eclipses AND two Solar Eclipses in 2024!
Lunar and Solar Eclipses in 2024
penumbra, (from Latin paene, “almost”; umbra, “shadow”), in astronomy, the outer part of a conical shadow, cast by a celestial body, where the light from the Sun [or other light source like the moon] is partially blocked—as compared to the umbra (q.v.), the shadow’s darkest, central part, where the light is totally excluded.
Britannica – Penumbra Eclipse
Is There a Black Moon in May 2024?
No, May doesn’t have a seasonal Black Moon in 2024.
However, there will be a calendrical Black Moon on November 30th, 2024.
A Black Moon is a modern phrase that is very similar to the definition of a Blue Moon. However, it involves two NEW MOONS inside a specified time period rather than two FULL MOONS. Since two New Moons take place in the month of November, it makes this a calendrical Black Moon.
A Black Moon brings success and good luck. While a Black Moon is not an astronomical phrase, it’s honored and celebrated by Pagans, witches, and other spiritual practitioners.
What Pagan Holiday is associated with the Full Moon of May?
May’s Full Flower Moon embodies all the spirit and energy of the Beltane and Spring season. The days continue to grow longer, the warmer temperatures continue to increase, and Mother Nature is in full bloom.
Nature is celebrating the joyous and lighthearted appearance of life with lush green leaves, rosebuds, lighthearted butterflies, and determined honey bees. May’s Flower Moon’s spiritual meaning is about love, laughter, celebration, and pleasure. Now is a strong time for potent magical energy!
Full Moon Schedule 2024
I hope this post about the Full moon in May 2024 was helpful! Lots of love to you, and remember, as always…
SOURCES
**Herb and Botanical Associations sourced from: Cunningham, Scott. Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs. Llewellyn Publications. 1 October 1985.
