Imbolc Valentine Moon This last week was a bust as far as Latin or the book. It was spent in the emotional […]
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Beltane Beltane Moon May Day. Brings up cold war images for me. If you’re of a certain age, you remember black and white television with Kruschev or […]
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Beltane (May 1) Waning Bee Hiving Moon A bit about how I got interested in the auld religion, the ancient Celtic faery faith and from it, the Great Wheel. 23 years ago I left the Presbyterian ministry and wandered off into a life I could never have anticipated. The writing turn I took then led […]
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Lughnasa Waning Grandchildren Moon Turning round the star wheel we have come again to the first day of the month named after Augustus Caesar, First Citizen of Rome. In Celtic lands this month was: Welsh–Awst, Scots Gaelic–an Lunasdal and in Irish: Lughnasadh. Though the coming of Autumn is not visible, the wind tells us it […]
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Summer Waning Strawberry Moon “if your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people.”- Chinese Proverb Ever have days that just happen, disappear with little trace? The last couple have been like that for me. The ear, the […]
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Summer’s Eve Waxing Strawberry Moon More weeding along the fenceline. It feels like I’ve beaten back both the weeds and revealed the now minimal amount of repair still required to bring the vegetable garden area back to where it began last fall. I planted another round of beans, doing so at weekly intervals. Took some […]
Read the rest of this entry »63 bar falls 29.57 3mph WNW dew-point 56 Summer, sunny and cool Last Quarter Flower Moon Mid-summer has come and gone. This means that Lughnasa, a cross-quarter holiday lies only a few weeks ahead. Lughnasa is a cross-quarter holiday; it comes between the Summer Solstice (mid-summer) and the Fall Equinox (Mabon). The Celts divided their […]
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Looking Backwards
Lughnasa Full Honey Extraction Moon Over the last week plus I’ve watched the Starz Network version of the King Arthur legends, Camelot. I get it streaming from Netflix. Each time I watch this program I get a shot of creative juices, similar to the ones I got when I first read the Mists of Avalon […]
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