Traditional First Harvest known as Lammas or Lughnasa in the Celt tradition is this Sunday, August 2. To understand First Harvest as an archetypal tide, its cultural and traditional meanings and practices the world round in depth, go here. We all feel the archetypal energy of this time magnified right now. The moon waxes or…
Category: Women’s Mysteries
Prayer. Dark Moon, Before 1st Harvest.
It is July again, dark moon. Full she comes who brings the high tide, I float amid on my back watching oh the mists, as they have all year overtake, hold and quake, part and depart. Clear. They dance in relation. Two cranes make noises upon arrival every morning the swelter of green heat. The…
Full Strawberry/First Fruit Moon Ritual
This is the full moon of first fruit, known by the Almanac as Strawberry Moon. She’s at peak power about 3pm eastern today, with an eclipse just moments following. When her lunation is complete, Summer begins. Join me online to clean, clear, clarify, and consecrate, or Make Holy, tonight 5:15-6pm eastern. If you wish, have…
Dark moon, shadow of Mama Earth
“Each thing creeps back into its own nature with the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Night-time is womb-time. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other. You only discover balance in your life when…
On the Practice of Making Offerings. Disseminating Moon.
Mama moon wanes now, or decreases in light. We enter the last quarter of the moon’s lunation, half dark half light, darkness gaining. That means we wrap up one of my favorite of her monthly phases~disseminating. To disseminate means to “spread (something, especially information) widely.” The disseminating phase follows her full phase, which we…
Going With the Wind by Barbara Ardinger —
Ohhhh how I needed this good medicine this day~ To Raven, Crossroad Winds, Tiger!, Mutations!!! & The Red Queen indeed~ The wind changed during the night. Even as they slept, the Witch and the Ladies of the Magic Mirror felt it and stirred in their beds. Kahlil the raven, who was sitting on the roof, felt it,…
Depth Feminine: A Beltane 2020 Chat. Watch here.
https://www.facebook.com/Wild-Women-Wisdom-114685365388570/ Above is the link for a Wisdom chat on Beltane, on Wild Women Wisdom’s FB page, original recording twilight on April 30, 2020. Hear about depth, embodiment, medicine wheel, animism, Celtic spirituality & menstrual wisdom all in an applied way for this special fertility holiday, plus a guided tool for opening second sight. Lunar…
New Moon before Lunar Beltane. Imagination as Calling.
It is new moon, it is respite, yearning. It is the earth, her shadow upon the face of the moon. Her shadow calling breathless, calling in, calling home. Sing song call, to rest. Rest, nurture and reset yourself in the stillness of her peace. Quarantine Clarity. Shows me myself. In all things the constant, how…
Ritual for Full Pink Moon, the 1st of Spring
Be blessed, dear friends
Dark into Light: The Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations of the North
I am reminded as I write this of the two most meaningful applications that I know of faith. The first, that faith doesn’t mean I know where I’m headed. It just means that I trust that I’ll get there safely. The second, that faith isn’t faith unless fear is present. Without the presence of fearing…
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