🌸🌸 Gratitude on May Day 🌸🌸

Thank you for your prayers while I was hospitalized + Gaian Tarot release is delayed

Pages from my nature journal, May Day 2005

Dear Ones,

A blessed May Day to you!

I won’t be able to go to today’s May Day Strong demonstration, but I am cheering on all of you who are.

I hope you enjoy looking at the pages of my nature journal from May 1, 2005 … twenty years ago. I still remember waking up that day, washing my face in lilac morning dew, then spending several hours in my dad’s rocking chair on the front porch, recording the luscious morning. Our neighbor dog Rex ambled over to hang out with me. It was a blissful May Day in my memory, and I’m glad I made a record of it.

Thank you to everyone who sent prayers and good wishes after my hospitalization earlier this week. (I had a “cardiac event” and spent four days in the hospital.) I have no doubt that your prayers and good wishes helped! I feel so supported and held. Thank you.

I’m happy to say I’m home. I have no major heart damage. It could’ve been so much worse. I am one grateful woman.

I hope to write a bit more about it in Sunday’s post. Yesterday (May Eve), I had a good morning and very rough afternoon. The home care nurses reminded me that I had a major cardiac event and I still need to rest.

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Gaian Tarot Coming to You Later Than Expected

»»» UPDATE: «««

Since sending out this post early today, I’ve heard from the folks at REDFeather that Gaian decks are shipping out to retailers over the next few days. This means that everyone who pre-ordered from Bookshop.org or Amazon should be receiving your deck next week!

Those of you who pre-ordered the new edition of the Gaian Tarot (and thank you so much if you did) have discovered by now that orders from online retailers did not ship out on Monday, April 28th as expected. I’m uncertain when the decks will ship; I’m awaiting more information. I will let you know when I know.

I’m as disappointed as you are! But unexpected, unwelcome stuff happens, as we all know. We see it every day. Mistakes happen. This delay was not intentional.

(It was pointed out to me that the retailer on Amazon who is showing a May shipping date is not Amazon, but a third party seller. I would not recommend ordering from them until I find out more.)

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Zoom in on the details …

Here are larger versions of my nature journal pages. I hope you’ll have fun zooming in on the details.

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This Week’s Song: “Hal An Tow” by Damh the Bard

A traditional May song from Helston, Cornwall, UK. One of my all-time favorites.

I’m glad to see the Library of Congress “Folklife Today” blog is still online. If you want to go down a rabbit hole looking into the history of this song, here’s “Hal An Tow”: Some Intriguing Evidence on a May Song.

Hal an tow, jolly rumble-O,
We were up long before the day-O
To welcome in the summertime,
Welcome in the May-O
For summer is a-comin’ in
And Winter’s gone away!

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Thank you again, to everyone who is sending prayers or good wishes for my return to health. I appreciate you all more than I can say.

Blessings of the May,

Out on a walk through the woods last month.

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About me: I’m Joanna Powell Colbert, creator of the Gaian Tarot and the Pentimento Tarot, and co-creator of the Herbcrafter’s Tarot. I write and teach about tarot, earth-centered spirituality, seasonal & lunar lore, and creativity as a spiritual practice. You can also connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, or BlueSky.