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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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