A Season Bent Toward Darkness and Cold

Lughnasa                                                                Waxing Honey Extraction Room Since March I’ve driven home at 8 pm, each Sunday, from Tai Chi at the corner of Hennepin and Franklin.  As March receded and April arrived, then May and June, the evening drive had light, then light in abundance, with the sun setting well after I got home.  Now we […]

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Lughnasa 2011

Lughnasa                                                          Waxing Honey Flow Moon The third cross-quarter holiday in the Celtic calendar, Lughnasa follows Beltain and proceeds Samhain, thus it cuts the once much longer Beltain season, essentially the growing and harvesting season, in half.  It marks the first fruits of the harvest, a time of gathering in and being nourished by the summer’s […]

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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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Lughnasa: A First Fruits Festival and Beginning of the Harvest Cycle

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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Fruits of the Soil

63  bar rises 29.72  1mph  NNW dew-point 60  sunrise 6:30  sunset 7:57  Lughnasa Waning Crescent of the Corn Moon As the corn moon wanes toward the harvest moon, I thought a picture of the Lughnasa/Corn Moon harvest for today would say more than words.

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Primal Eating

71  bar rises 29.87 0mph NE dew-point 58  sunrise 6:00  sunset 8:38 Lughnasa New (Corn) Moon A vegetarian meal  tonight.  Spaghetti squash, golden beets, cucumber tomato and onion salad and cooked whole onion.  Colorful and healthy.  All but the tomatoes were from our garden, including the garlic and cilantro sauteed in olive oil as a […]

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Spaghetti Squash and a Scimitar Cucumber

81  bar steady 29.93 1mph NE  dew-point 51  sunrise 5:59  sunset 8:38 New (Corn) Moon Tao is the way without a way; It is the path with no tracks. You start walking the way of Tao when you erase anything – good or bad – you learned about Tao. “If you steal from one author, […]

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The Beginning of Summer’s End

77  bar rises 29.83 3mpn NNW dew-point 61  sunrise 5:58  sunset 8:39  Lughnasa New (Corn) Moon As I note in the Lughnasa entry now posted on the Great Wheel page, we have come to the beginning of summer’s end.  The Celtic word for summer’s end is Samhain, also the name for the last of the […]

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Radical Expectations

86  bar falls 29.66 3mph N  dew-point 59  sunrise 5:56 sunset 8:42 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Lughnasa, August 1st, comes on a new moon night.  This means the first harvest festival of the Celtic year (it ends just before the last harvest festival on October 31st, Samhain.) will coincide with the dark […]

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Onions on a Screen

80  bar steady 29.71  2mph W dew-point 61  sunrise 5:56  sunset 8:42 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Heaved sand out of the to be fire pit.  Still a lotta roots even after the stump grinder.  Sigh.  It will get finished, and before 8/18 as a birthday present for Kate and as a Woolly […]

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