{"id":17443,"date":"2012-12-11T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17443"},"modified":"2016-05-10T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T17:12:05","slug":"new-moon-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17443","title":{"rendered":"New Moon Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>The Thanksgiving moon has almost winked out. \u00a0After the new moon, the Winter Solstice Moon will rise, the lunar watch over our longest night. \u00a0That&#8217;s only 10 days away. \u00a0As I&#8217;ve written often here, this is my favorite holiday, that pause in the cycle of the year where we can focus on the night, on the darkness, on the fecundity and the danger. \u00a0I guess I&#8217;m in my own Advent season right now. \u00a0As the time ticks away, closer and closer to our latitude&#8217;s longest absence from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>By the time it comes, Missing will have its revision finished, this first one and have been printed out and in the hands of beta readers. \u00a0This liturgical season, Samhain, summer&#8217;s end, is the season of the final harvest and it&#8217;s fitting that at its end the work on Missing will wrap up for now. \u00a0It is also fitting that, in the liturgical season of the Winter Solstice, that a new book will begin, Loki&#8217;s Children. \u00a0In the darkness seeds grow, push out roots, explore the path to the air. \u00a0Waiting for springs warm days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Thanksgiving Moon The Thanksgiving moon has almost winked out. \u00a0After the new moon, the Winter Solstice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Moon Coming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-wheel","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39640,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions\/39640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}