By the Mystery Way of the 13 moons, Lammas, or what I call First Harvest on my own solitary path, is here! For pagans, our traditional Harvest season kicks off with Lammas, also known in the Celt influenced tradition as Lughnasa, on August 1. It lasts until Samhain, or Final Harvest. On the Women’s Mystery…
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field notes on animism. tracking~
day 1. to find the sacred circle. it will open itself to you as it did when the tree breeze led you there the first time. begin with faith in this. trust the ecology. the calf high lime green underbrush tho unknown to you now is friend yet to be met. the holly grove is…
Mama Luna Beltane, in the Fae light
she was soo MAGIC this eve i couldn’t but 1… no filter but the fae light, lunar Beltane moon tnight beach city, usa
Winter to Spring Alchemy, New Moon this weekend, & Lunar Beltane this lunation.
Dear Ones, Some thoughts on the dark moon this weekend & New Moon occurring Sunday into Monday (depending on where you are)~ This weekend (for those of us in the Northern Hemi) we end the lunation of In-Between: the moon cycle that moved us up from under the Earth in Winter’s station and sprouted us…
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…
Virgin or Maiden Quickening, this weekend’s Full Moon
Just find this artist’s work simply stunning. Go here and give her a look. https://society6.com/heatherheininge So feeling on the synchronicity of the Virgin image, as we tend the waking Virgin Tide of the Year. This week the moon is in her Gibbous phase. This we might call the Fertility phase of the month (lunation). The peak…
Happy Traditional to Lunar Imbolc: Letting the Tide move you.
Happy traditional Imbolc, friends. I woke up today with a mist in my heart, the kind only satiated by the reliable rhythm languages, the silences and flurries of Mama Earth. It felt like longing, and when I leaned into the feeling I saw myself on a drive around the Tall Pines, this Place where I…
Winter Solstice. Animism, Ancestor Weekend, the sweet call of Yule Tide.
Backyard just before dawn Wednesday morning, the outlines of bare branches seem almost purple against a heavy gray sky. To the eye all else appears barren, but the intuitive eyes, the heart eyes, the soul eyes–a ripeness of movement motions the air. Some Solstices are deeply still, some you feel the quickening so ripe it…
Full Moon of Preparation
This morning’s full moon designates a time on the wheel of the year for preparation. Under this moon, we want to nurture all the details, take note of the areas that we can tend by taking small actions. Small actions. Small can look like endings, or knowing what not to feed with your energy. Small…
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…
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