Samhain Waxing Thanksgiving Moon The daylight is gone, twilight has fallen and night is on its way. Now that we have entered the season of Samhain, the leaves have vanished from the trees and the clouds, like tonight, often hang gray in the sky. Samhain means the end of summer and in the old Celtic […]
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Summer Solstice Waxing Strawberry Moon The longest day of the year. Light triumphant, streaming, steaming. The darkness held at bay. Summer Solstice This is an astronomical phenomenon transformed and translated into a spiritual one. We humans have over millennia taken solstice and equinox alike as moments out of time, a sacred caesura when we […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Equinox. Today is the fall equinox. In spring we celebrate the shift towards yet more light and warmth as the trend toward lengthened days sees daylight overtaking the night. Now the shift has a different, more somber direction. At the Summer Solstice the hours of daylight began to shrink in relation […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon All afternoon as I have wandered the precincts of Enlightenment thought a pileated woodpecker has drilled one of the dead trees in our woods. The sound compels attention, a drummer of a truly ancient tribe with a steady and resonant sound. Each time it comes I’m drawn away from the abstract […]
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Solstice Celebrations. What Might They Mean?
Winter Moon of the Winter Solstice Something new seems to be happening. Not sure if I’m reading the rustling in the ether of our culture right, but it feels like the Great Wheel may have begun to reemerge. Not […]
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