We’re welcoming May with this month’s ritual report, sharing key dates to work with ceremonial cacao as the season deepens into embodiment, expression, and connection.
This month invites attention to what is ready to be released, what is ready to strengthen, and what is beginning to find its voice through breath, movement, and conversation. Each key date offers an opportunity to work with cacao as a steady companion for grounding, insight, and meaningful expansion.
Keep reading to explore May’s most supportive ritual moments and how cacao can deepen what is coming alive.
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✨ May Ritual Report ✨
May 1 | Beltane
May 1 | Full Moon in Scorpio
May 5 | Cinco de Mayo
May 10 | Mother’s Day
May 16 | New Moon in Taurus
May 20 | Gemini Season Begins
May 22 | International Day of Biological Diversity
May 25 | Memorial Day
May 31 | Full Moon in Sagittarius
May 1 | Beltane
Beltane is an ancient festival of Celtic origin that marks the half-way point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, a sacred threshold of fire, fertility, and blossoming life. It celebrates passion, creativity, and the full awakening of the Earth as spring energy moves toward fullness and vitality. Traditionally associated with sacred fires and rites of renewal, this is a powerful time to notice what within you is asking to grow more boldly as intention begins to take visible form.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao and enjoy your cup outside in connection with the living Earth. Offer a simple prayer or offering of gratitude to the earth and then set an intention for what you are tending as the season of growth begins to unfold.
Recommended Cacao: Tantric Rose Blossom - heart opening and expressive, supporting creativity and connection with what is ready to bloom.
May 1 | Full Moon in Scorpio
The Full Moon in Scorpio brings attention to what lives beneath the surface and asks for honesty with what is ready to change. Scorpio energy supports transformation through awareness. Full moons illuminate patterns that are complete and ready to be released. This is a powerful moment to listen closely to what your body already knows.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao and sit quietly with something you feel ready to release or transform. Write it down before drinking, then return to what you wrote after finishing your cup and notice what has shifted in your body or perspective.
Recommended Cacao: Mystical Mushroom - grounding and introspective, supporting depth, integration, and inner clarity.
May 5 | Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo, often mistaken for Mexican Independence Day, actually commemorates a Mexican victory over the French army in 1862 and has become a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage. Though cacao originated in the upper Amazon, it traveled through extensive trade networks into Mexico where it has been cultivated since around 1900 BCE by a pre-Olmec culture and became deeply rooted in traditional Mesoamerican life.
We are especially grateful to the Zapotec elder María from Oaxaca who originally taught Jonas how to prepare cacao from local beans, and our Oaxacan Spice recipe is an homage to her teachings.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao with gratitude for the Mesoamerican peoples who carried this medicine forward through generations. As you drink, reflect on what freedom, protection, and cultural continuity mean in your own life and envision harmony among all beings.
Recommended Cacao: Oaxacan Spice - warming and traditional, honoring Mexican culture and cacao lineage.
May 11 | Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day invites us into gratitude for our biological mothers, the mother figures who have shaped our lives, and the living presence of Mother Earth that sustains us each day. It is also a time to honor the nurturing, protective, and life-giving qualities that live within each of us. This day offers an opportunity to reflect on the many expressions of care that have supported our growth and to reconnect with the deeper wisdom of the mother archetype. Through cacao, we can soften into appreciation for the seen and unseen forms of love that continue to hold us.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao and create a simple earth altar with flowers, stones, or natural objects. Offer a small pour of cacao to the land and reflect on how the mother archetype has supported you or is asking to be cultivated within your life.
Recommended Cacao: Mystical Mushroom - grounding and nourishing, supporting connection with Mother Earth and the wisdom of the body.
May 16 | New Moon in Taurus
The New Moon in Taurus invites attention to stability, nourishment, and what helps life feel sustainable over time. Taurus energy supports slow growth that is rooted in the body and guided by consistency rather than urgency. New moons are moments for planting intentions that can unfold gradually. This is a supportive time to choose one steady practice or value you are ready to tend with patience in the weeks ahead.
Ritual Idea: Bring a few cacao discs outside and place them into the soil as symbolic seeds. With each disc you offer to the earth, name a habit, quality, or rhythm you would like to strengthen and imagine it taking root and growing steadily over time.
Recommended Cacao: Thriving Tanzania - steady and clarifying, supporting grounded motivation and forward movement.
May 20 | Gemini Season Begins
As the Sun moves into Gemini, attention shifts toward communication, curiosity, and connection with others. This season supports learning, sharing ideas, and exploring new perspectives with flexibility and openness. Gemini is traditionally associated with the lungs and the breath, making this a supportive time to notice how breath, voice, and conversation shape the way we move through the world. It can be helpful to listen for what feels most alive and ready to be expressed.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao and practice coherence breathing with a five-second inhale through the nose and a five-second exhale through the nose for five rounds or longer if it feels supportive. Afterward, notice what insight, question, or creative perspective feels ready to be shared and speak it aloud, write it down, or offer it into conversation
Recommended Cacao: Boundless Belize - bright and expansive, supporting curiosity, creativity, and open dialogue.
May 22 | International Day of Biological Diversity
International Day of Biological Diversity highlights the importance of ecosystems that sustain life across the planet. Cacao grows within complex agroforestry systems that support soil health, wildlife habitat, and resilient farming communities. Each cup begins within living networks of relationship that extend from forest canopy to fungal soil webs to the hands of farmers who steward these lands. Remembering this can deepen appreciation for what cacao represents beyond flavor alone.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao outside if possible and identify one plant, animal, or natural element that supports your life in a quiet but essential way. Offer a small gesture of reciprocity such as water to the soil, a spoken gratitude, or a few cacao drops returned to the earth as you drink.
Recommended Cacao: Vibrant Vitality - uplifting and supportive, encouraging connection with the living systems that sustain wellbeing.
May 25 | Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a United States holiday that offers a moment to honor lives that have been given in service to others. It is a day for remembrance, reflection, and gratitude for those who carried responsibility across generations, often in ways that shaped communities they would never meet. Quiet acknowledgment can be a powerful form of participation. Ritual helps create space for memory to remain present and for respect to move forward through how we live now.
Ritual Idea: Prepare your cacao and take your first sip in silence. Bring to mind someone whose life or actions helped shape the world you live in today, whether personally known or part of a broader lineage of service. As you finish your cup, consider one way you can carry forward steadiness, care, or responsibility in your own life as a continuation of what they helped protect.
Recommended Cacao: Uplifting Uganda - steady and strengthening, supporting grounded presence and quiet reflection.
May 31 | Full Moon in Sagittarius
The Full Moon in Sagittarius invites expansion of perspective and renewed connection with meaning and direction. Sagittarius energy supports exploration, learning, and trust in what is unfolding beyond immediate certainty. Full moons bring clarity to what is ready to move forward. This is a moment to notice where possibility is widening.
Ritual Idea: Prepare cacao and reflect on one area of life where you are ready to think bigger or move differently. After drinking, write one step that supports that expansion.
Recommended Cacao: Boundless Belize - expressive and inspiring, supporting vision, movement, and openness to new pathways.
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May Invocation: Expanding Into What Is Alive
May is the month where life begins to move again.
The month where what has been quietly forming starts to take shape.
The month where the body remembers its natural rhythm.
The month where growth becomes visible.
Expansion does not arrive all at once.
It begins with attention.
With breath.
With noticing what feels steady enough to continue.
As the world becomes fuller, greener, and more expressive, something similar begins to move within us.
Energy returns to the body.
To curiosity.
To connection.
To the small choices that create a life that feels more like our own.
Cacao supports this expansion.
Not by pushing change forward,
but by helping us stay present enough to recognize what is already unfolding.
With each cup of cacao,
may you trust what is strengthening beneath the surface,
follow what feels naturally alive within you,
and grow in the direction your life is already becoming.
