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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading