The new moon is Sunday, a wonderful alignment with the solar new year. A time to be willingly intentional about a new cycle of life. We can be useful with the ease and descent, the pause retreat and reset of winter / solstice as teacher right now. Retreat within, commit to this. Take care of…
Tag: Yule
Yuletide greetings this Full Moon
The full moon blesses us with her sweetness this Saturday just before midnight here on the midatlantic coast in the States. Two days later is Yule, the winter solstice with the longest night of the year. Somehow we’re here already, midway through the season of the dark that begins at Mabon. After Tuesday, the nights…
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…
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…
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…
Prayer Visions. Alchemy @ Solstice Tide
This time of year the darkness is a weightless velvet air cloaking everything. Darkness is, it becomes us we become it. A quality of being. On Tuesday morning there was no energy left for me other than the wane. Gigantic hush far bigger than me, but of me~a surrender in my soul. The moon was tilting towards her…