Lunar Imbolc 2022. We round the last dark corner

Monday into Tuesday evening is the lunar celebration of mid-winter. Wednesday is the traditional, Brigid’s day as my tradition has come to life for me in past year’s, Imbolc or Candlemas in other terms. Lunar Imbolc is signified on the Mystery Path by the crescent moon. This is entryway time, we welcome Virgin moon, this…

Make a hearth a home at Yule

Under the disseminating moon, which is the phase after she is full, it came in kitchn witchn so I moved into apple medicine with some mulled apple cider to consecrate my hearth. I had recently started my practice again. For me that’s a recovery term about day at a time living which includes sacred prayer…

New Moon Tmw Eve & Lunar Lammas Round the Bend~

Dark moon today dearest Ones! And New Moon moves us through tomorrow evening round 9pm on the east coast of the Northern Hemi. We are in Cancer season, fierce season of emotions in the house of the Mother…easy access to the lower world root truths of the emotional body…generational patterning which is NOT about woundology…

elegy, on summer’s dark moon, for a friend who travels on

in the dark i lay body to body, a stranger to my bed much  as the stranger in my bed who isno stranger, man whose breath i am able to taste when he’s awaywho for two years sleeps aside other in the dark sleeps asidethe child growing darkness of my  heaving womb to his bare back…

Dark Moon to Summer Solstice

Fireflies sparking up the edges of the inky night…honeysuckle intoxicants ringing green around the vine…ahhhh dear loves, must be Summa Time That’s right, tomorrow’s New Moon cycle brings about Litha, or the Summer Solstice, which also means today and this week so far overall, we’re in and have been in that deep stronghold of forced…

Some reason Choptank

Some reason Choptank’s been on my mind, ever since the island this morning. Chop was Fall of 2008. I lived there in a house built in 1848. That winter I had to wear double long johns the whole time bc it cost too much to run the propane heat. I lived w a recent divorcee,…

Spring forward with the New Moon this weekend

Happy dark into New Moon weekend, dear ones & mmmm what a yummm yummmy one it’s setting up to be~ Overnight, Saturday, we not only “Spring” forward an hour, we also have the alchemy of dark into light that marks the new lunation, or moon cycle, with a New Moon. This is the lunation that…

Wishing Moon for Dark Moon, Dark Season, & Total Solar Eclipse.

Did you know tonight is a wishing moon? The lunation that starts tomorrow is our last one of Autumn. In fact, next Monday when she is 1st quarter, she converges with the Wheel of the Year as the longest night arrives and we welcome the season of Yule…and Return of Light ! Wishing moons, on…

The Witch’s New Year: Lunar Samhain

Tomorrow night, just past midnight, it’s the Witch’s New Year, Lunar Samhain. Earlier in the Harvest part of the year, in my second site for ritual I saw a Women’s Mysteries member and I throwing bones. Bone throwing is a form of divination with roots found in numerous different pagan heritages. We came together less…