Welcome, Growing Season!

Beltane                                                                                  Early Growth Moon We have turned the corner on winter it seems and now […]

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The Devil’s Weather

Imbolc                                                                      Cold Moon It is these middling days, when the sun shines and water melts off the roof, these days when […]

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A Year of No Winter, Now With No Spring?

Imbolc                                         Woodpecker Moon OK.  So, there was this place that used to have winter but had it replaced by a season of cloudy skies and what passes for cold in the southern states.  Then, that […]

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While The Cyber River Closed

Samhain                           New Winter Solstice Moon Midnight  12/6/10 Writing this on Word since I’ve had no internet connection for a few hours.  My limited number of tricks have not produced a link and I don’t have the patience for navigating so-called “customer service.”  George Orwell would be proud of the internet and internet services industry. Kate’s […]

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Summer. It’s About Time.

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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The Sun! The Sun!

Imbolc                                        Waning Wild Moon On these days I often think of Fantasy Island, when Tatto would say, The plane!  The plane!  I want to run outside in the street and yell, The sun!  The sun!  After a long run of dreary weather the sight of the sun climbing higher and higher in the sky bucks […]

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As It Is, So Shall It Be

Imbolc                                         Waning Cold Moon We have hoarfrost on fences, tree limbs, shed roofs.  I looked out yesterday afternoon and it fell to the ground like snow from two big cottonwoods.  Shrubs appear limned in light as the morning sun refracts through the hoarfrost on their branches.  We have a white, soft landscape that carries the […]

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Like A Snowball Rolling Down Hill

Fall                                       Waning Blood Moon The change of seasons has picked up some momentum in the past couple of days with two hard freezes in a row, then snow last night.  We’re not in late fall yet, that won’t come until November, so we could still have Indian summer, but for now, we’ve moved into meteorlogical […]

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Rigel Redux

Fall                                            Waxing Blood Moon After reviewing the stats for ancientrails, I learned something old.  During the time when Rigel and her sidekick Vega staged their break-outs readership went up.  My assumption is that conflict drove the rise.  Can man outsmart dog? Chapter 14 or so.  Vega and Rigel have not escaped the yard since the […]

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The Heart of Winter

7  falls 30.13  W0 wchill 7  Winter Full Wolf Moon The Full Wolf Moon hangs high in the sky, hidden behind cloud cover.  It casts a ring of ice crystals, giving it a gem in a circular setting look.  The moon light suffuses the sky giving a bluish cast to the snow as it filters […]

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