Imbolc Waxing Awakening Moon St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve always felt that the Irish celebrating St. Patrick’s day is much like the Dodgers celebrating a Yankee World Series win or maybe more like Native Americans celebrating the coming of Christianity to the New World. Why? The snakes St. Patrick drove out of Ireland represented the takeover […]
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79 bar steady 29.88 3mph NNW dew-point 56 sunrise 6:07 sunset 8:28 Lughnasa First Quarter of the Corn Moon moonrise 1432 moonset 2259 More empathy for the sandhogs and ditch diggers from the old sod who threw the new sod. The pit is down as far as I need to take it. Kate and I […]
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Beltane 2011
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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