There's a beautiful fairy tale unfolding overhead this week, where the May Full Moon, often known as the 'flower Moon' unfolds with the story of the "The Flower Queen's daughter".
In the fairy tale, a valiant Prince sets out to rescue the Flower Queen's Daughter, who was captured by a fierce and mighty dragon. The dragon sleeps for one whole year at a time, but each night while he sleeps, his mother hosts a ball. Though captive, the daughter of the Flower Queen amuses herself by attending this ball every night.
When we look southwest into the sky this week, about an hour before sunrise, we can imagine the waning gibbous Moon as the Flower Queen's Daughter; the mighty constellation Scorpion is the dragon,and the dragon's mother we can imagine as the bright star Antares, at the heart of Scorpius.
The fourth and final main character is the valiant Prince: the golden planet Saturn, also moving through this region of the sky right now. All of this can be seen looking southwest into the sky an hour before sunrise.
In the tale, the Prince wins the Flower Queen's Daughter by tricking the Dragon's Mother into believing he finds her to be the most beautiful woman in the world. But then, his plans laid, he steals the Flower Queen's Daughter away, and rides with her through the night, to her own mother's palace:
"But the dragons had noticed their flight, and woke their brother out of his year's sleep. He flew into a terrible rage when he heard what had happened, and determined to lay siege to the Flower Queen's palace, but the Queen caused a forest of flowers as high as the sky to grow up round her dwelling, though which no one could force a way."
You can watch this happily ever after as it unfolds overhead in southwest morning skies this week, and you can find a link to the entire tale at the Interlochen Public Radio website.
Link to the fairy tale of "the Flower Queen's Daughter, from Andrew Lang's Yellow Fairy Book:
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/146/the-yellow-fairy-book/4769/the-flower-queens-daughter/