Oct262020

Dana’s Simple Samhain Ritual

The veil between the worlds is at its thinnest during Samhain (October 31 to November 7), and it's an appropriate time to contact ancestors, release what's unnecessary, and prepare for the birth at Yule. Samhain is a "Sabbat," one of the special days of power on the wheel of the year. Perform the ritual on October 31 (traditional Samhain) or November 8 (the astrological … [Read more...]

May12019

Kindling Beltane Fire

Note from Dana: I'm happy to have as my guest blogger, the talented poet and shaman, Jane Galer. Her intimacy with the natural world makes her the perfect spokeswoman for this cross-quarter holiday. If you’re paying attention at all you by now will have noticed that about every six – eight weeks, roughly dividing the year into eighths, we are asked to clean house, mentally … [Read more...]

Aug272018

Mutable New Moons

Astrologers classify signs as cardinal, fixed, and mutable. If you have a lot of cardinal signs in your chart  (Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn), you like action.  With a lot of fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius), you prefer to keep things as you want them to be. With planets in mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces), you like to keep your options … [Read more...]

Mar292018

Blue Moons aren’t a Real Thing

A Full Moon is supposedly "blue" when it's the second Full Moon in a calendar month. This happened in January, and typically happens once every two to three years, all of which may or may not be rare enough to deserve the cliche, "once in a blue Moon."  Yet you won't find much about Blue Moons in spiritual or ceremonial histories. That's because they're man-made, not Moon … [Read more...]

Jan282018

Is this a Super Blue Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse?

The Super Wolf Moon earlier this month lived up to its hype.  That was the week Michael Wolff published his Fire and Fury -- unleashing a political feeding frenzy that very much evoked the "wolves" that gave this Moon its name.  Full Moons are illumination time and the revelations of that week rocketed the book to the top of the world's best seller list.  Technically -- another … [Read more...]