Winter Moon of the Winter Solstice Darkness has fallen. The solstice has begun. The longest nights of the year occur over the next few days. The summer solstice, now a half year away in […]
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Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice The holidays. We’ve got no decorations up. No Christmas or other holiday music plays here. We did all of our shopping online. When I was at Best Buy a week or so […]
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Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice We have entered my favorite season of the year, the slow slide toward the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. Cue Robert Frost. (Dandelions at Lapatia Bay, Kate) In Ushuaia the sun did not set until 9:30 pm. Here it sets at 4:30. As we traveled south […]
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Spring New (Bee Hiving) Moon We are now over three months away from the Winter Solstice. The spring equinox has come and gone, yet our yard still has snow, maybe 5 0r six inches, more in spots where the snow plow moved our many snow falls to the side of the driveway. In the orchard […]
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Winter Solstice Eve Full Moon of the Winter Solstice My friend Allison sent me a link to this article, There Goes The Sun. It contains an excellent digest of solstice activity around the world and also explains some of the astronomical oddities attached to it. Good reading. Here’s another tack, a way of setting yourself […]
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Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice In my sacred world the holiday season has begun to climb toward its crescendo, or, rather, descend. Would that be a descendo? As I gradually shifted my view of sacred time from the Christian liturgical calendar to the ancient Celtic calendar, at first I celebrated Samhain, Summer’s End, […]
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Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice The Winter Solstice comes in a week. The longest night. I’ll be there, remembering the triple Goddess, Bridgit, burning a candle and honoring the deep inside of us all. Yesterday I used the Himalaya’s as a metaphor for parking lot snow. According to the newspaper this morning I […]
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Samhain Waning Thanksgiving Moon The Nick Caspers murder trial will not happen. Nick decided to plead guilty to Felony A Murder, a charge that gives a chance at parole, as opposed to the Felony AA that he faced at trial. That one carried life without parole. As Woolly Paul Strickland said, we all have done […]
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The Dark Time
Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice Samain in Lima, Peru. We came back through Lima from a point on the far side of the city just as evening fell. Even there, Samain’s pale memory, Halloween, saw children in […]
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