Full Moon, High Summer, these times are uniquely confronting. The brightest lights are glaring us out of our hiding places. Sometimes this feels so good and welcome! A relief to have old ground cover scorched away. Other times the cover comes away painfully and leaves us running for the shade. Something touched me this year […]
If there’s one thing we are not short of at the moment, it is green. Lush green abundant plant life springing upward, so green its almost shocking! Filling all the desultory gaps that had been so drably waiting for life to return. Or perhaps it was me that was waiting, pretty impatiently if I’m honest.
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Balance has returned, we made it to the Equinox! And Day and Night have made peace with each other for a moment.There were times I thought this might be the year the rain and gloom would win over, and it has felt like a long battle in my corner of the field. Looking out of
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Imbolc What is the quality of this time of year? It’s still so dark. But something is moving. We’ve done our time in the deepest winter stillness. And now a flame is conceived in the womb of night. Small, precious promise, newly come. Again. Its delicate, the promise. It’s so quiet you might not notice
Every year I intend to slow my pace and take the time to relish easing into the deepening winter, like a train arriving at its final station, the rhythm of its rapid motion gradually opening up into a satisfyingly steady chug. But this year, as with most lately, I have come instead to an emergency
Welcome to the turning point in the year which puts everything into profound perspective. It’s time for dying. Time to let go. And by doing so, we can consolidate what is precious. Sap descends into the roots to preserve its power for rebirth next year. At the same time, leaves that are no longer serving
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This is the Autumn Equinox when the year starts its exhale. The circle turns finally towards darkness after today. Just now, light and dark are balanced in a still point before we settle decidedly into the declining season and the gradual dying of the year. Balance is pleasingly appropriate for the season of the Earth
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Holistic is a word that is used a lot these days. It is used to mean taking a broader perspective, a more inclusive vision, an attempt to acknowledge more interconnectedness, and the wholeness of something. For me, to understand true holism in practice, there’s nothing that expresses it better than the Tao. Taoism rests on
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Today is one of the lunar festivals that slip into the gaps between solstice and equinox. It marks a turning, not the crossroads of a solar milestone but a moment of reorientation in the year. Lughnasadh, on August 1st is a time of turning away from the height of summer to look toward the gradual