Beltane Early Growth Moon We have turned the corner on winter it seems and now […]
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Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon This northern spring, a season all its own, as is the northern summer, has turned cold and wet. Again. The cold weather vegetables have had a near perfect early growing season. This combination of occasional heat followed by cold and rainy days marks the uncertainty, the ambiguity of our spring, […]
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Lughnasa New (Back to School) Moon The partisans of summer have begun to moan its passing here in the north country. Those of us who love the fall and the winter have only begun to savor the cooler nights, the lower humidity and the reduction in thunderstorms. The harvest has begun, though much lies ahead. […]
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Summer Waning Strawberry Moon My cards were good. I won some hands. But. Boy, did I screw up when I took a chance on a hand where winning would have offered double points, but losing, as I did, with below a minimum, quadrupled the penalty. Ouch! Sigh. The night was glorious. A warm summer night, […]
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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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76 bar rising 30.00 6mph SSE dew-point 66 Summer Jacksonville, Mississippi Full Flower Moon Beltane 2008 has passed into history. Look under the Great Wheel tab this afternoon or evening for a Summer Solstice posting. The plan today is to head west. A bit of time at Vicksburg Battle Field (civil war), then on into […]
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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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