Imbolc Cold Moon It is these middling days, when the sun shines and water melts off the roof, these days when […]
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Fall Full Autumn Moon A cool rain and a chilly fall evening with wet gold stuck to the bricks and asphalt, a low cloud cover and darkening twilight skies. Though ready to travel there is a sadness in missing the rest of fall, the transition from this still part summer, part cooler season time to […]
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Fall Waxing Autumn Moon In spite of the 80 degree plus weather it felt like a fall day outside. The sky blue, the clouds white, the sun weak. Collected the potatoes. After Mark carried the harvest inside, I put the potatoes on slatted wooden shelves that slide into our root crop storage system. They went […]
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Fall Waning Harvest Moon Each turn of the Celtic seasonal calendar I find ideas, personal reflections, astronomical or traditional lore to pass along. This time I’ll pass along one from Waverly Fitzgerald who maintains a website, living in season. She suggests a seasonal pilgrimage, a visit each turn of the year to a place that, […]
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Lughnasa New (Back to School) Moon The partisans of summer have begun to moan its passing here in the north country. Those of us who love the fall and the winter have only begun to savor the cooler nights, the lower humidity and the reduction in thunderstorms. The harvest has begun, though much lies ahead. […]
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Fall Waxing Dark Moon The last night of fall, tomorrow morning will be Samhain. In my personal sacred calendar Samhain marks not only the end of summer, but the first day of Holiseason which runs until Epiphany, January 6th. There are so many holidays, family times, solitary days and days of spiritual pilgrimage in Holiseason […]
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Fall Waxing Dark Moon The leaves have finally changed color in our yard. It happened almost over night. Many went dry before they turned, but more have become red, gold, yellow. The colors of fall are as much a part of our landscape as the snowdrops and daffodils are of spring. Fall’s color gives us […]
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Fall Waning Blood Moon The change of seasons has picked up some momentum in the past couple of days with two hard freezes in a row, then snow last night. We’re not in late fall yet, that won’t come until November, so we could still have Indian summer, but for now, we’ve moved into meteorlogical […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Tomato picking and compost bin rebuilding, the bulk of the morning. To keep our young pups from celebrating life by knocking down the straw bales out of which I designed this compost bin a wire fence now encircles the bales, with an other, shorter wire fencing material for a gate. The […]
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Following the Old Religion
Lughnasa Full Back To School Moon Summer has three endings: Labor Day which marks the end of summer vacation for many school children; and, for many adults like myself, kicks us into serious mode as all those years of conditioning continue to affect our attitude; Mabon, or the Fall Equinox, which comes tomorrow, that point […]
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