In case you need a bit of energy boost to get you through May Day, because your Walpurgisnacht may have gone rather late, today’s poem is actually a song! Turn up the volume and dance!

In case you’re curious about the lyrics, here’s a translation from the German:

Into the evening sky rise
Tonight the sorcery
Wild people and Lilith’s kind
Steady winds winds

Let us go to the fires streak
Round to grab the stars
Good and evil words
Carrying us tonight

In the willows our dreams will sound
And the winds will Sing our songs
Let’s jump over the fire with the sparks
In the Walpurgis night!

Hear the violins, hear the violins
The fire is kindled!
Follow the dance, follow the dance
In the Walpurgis night!

Fierce in the game of the violins
Turns our nightly dance
And we step wild and free
This ancient spell at

Once only I’m big circles
We dance in that way
Until the first morning light
Our dream fabric breaks

In the willows our dreams will sound
And the winds Will sing our songs
Let’s jump with the spark over the fire
In the Walpurgis night!

Hear the violins, hear the violins
The fire is kindled!
Follow the dance, follow the dance
In the Walpurgis night!

Watercourse
~ Ruth Padel

Our window is a drifting smoke
of rainlight, a cage of lichened thorn.
Pale grass, moor walls outside. Inside
there’s Schubert song and coffee.
Marooned in Plato’s geometric logic,
you sit by the fire,
looking like a nineteenth-century
charcoal sketch. Our daughter is due

in three months. You are sealed
and still. The goldveined eye
of shifting embers,
sound of the piano carrying
a hurt traveller’s voice,
one curly dog nuzzling burrs
from her feet on the hearth:
only these move. The bull
who alarmed us yesterday
is a streaming statue
in the farther field.
We are each other’s quiet
and concentration. No one
can reach us here.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 30, 2017
Active Influence: Hrungnir/Seven of Wands
Rune: Ior/Boundaries
Hidden Influence: Jormundgand/The World

People are cranky and frustrated, and even if it’s not your fault, they are going to try to make it your fault—or at least, your problem. If it’s not your responsibility, don’t take it on. You have things to finish today, and Jormundgand is here to remind you that today is really the day.

Jormundgand is also present in the Ior rune, so be aware of your boundaries—establish them firmly, and defend them vigorously. If the issue involves something the other person wants that’s not something you want to share, expect additional tantrums and negativity. Dealing with this stuff may not be where you planned to spend so much time and energy today, but that boundary work is absolutely necessary to do in order for you to complete the other things that really need to be done.

The Star-Spangled Turban
~ Amit Majmudar

Hot pink frosting
on my chocolate-
cupcake noggin,

switched-on lightbulb-
yellow, tulip-
bulb top-heavy

orange, sky-blue,
bruise-blue, navy
thought cloud, darkening:

Any towel,
any shawl will
serve as well to

bind this open
wound atop me,
mark me off as

not quite level-
headed, tops on
any watchlist.

It’s Old Glory
that I choose this
time: I pleat her,

sweep her, set her
on my head as
reverently as

any U.S.
M.C. honor
guard triangle

on a coffin.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 29, 2017
Active Influence: Glut, Einmyria & Eisa/Three of Wands
Rune: Wan/Potential
Hidden Influence: Bylgja/Three of Cups

Your enthusiasm is boundless today. Your brain is in high gear, coming up with ideas faster than you can write them down. Anything and everything seem possible. The threes are a perfect balance of energy and emotion.

Enjoy the creative flow, and let yourself dance with the energy. You can work out practical details later—the important thing today is to enjoy the creative process and the day.