On December 28th, the Full Cold Moon arrives. Is it a challenging Moon for you, a possibly treacherous time of the year? It is for me. With my Irish background, I’ve always been a leaner when it comes to brooding. I’m a history buff, so I am also frequently looking backward to understand here and now. Couple all of this with my current progressed 12th house Moon, and I could be … [Read more...]
November: The Beaver Full Moon
Beavers are industrious lodge builders, but at no time in the year are they more active than during November’s full moon. At this time of year they toil and build with extra purpose, for winter fast approaches, and instinctively they know they will live or die by their thorough preparation or lack of it. Are we so different? Like the beaver we note the shortened days and … [Read more...]
The Divine Feminine and the Promise of the Hunter’s Moon
By the time the Full Moon rose over ancient cultures at the end of October, the harvest had usually been completed, leaving the fields wide open and stubbly. Leaf-dropping trees stood stripped and starkly skeletal under this brilliant moon, which illuminated deer, wild boar, foxes, and other animals as they foraged in the fields for leftover nuts, fruit, vegetables, and grains. … [Read more...]
My Lady and Entwining Moon
My mind is always chattering. I practice daily with devotion, but the older I get, the more I seem to lapse, to forget what I know, or knew, or think I know. Devoted to The Divine Feminine, I am grounded and satisfied when I can do something that honors the Goddess. Recently, Venus directed me to a consignment shop in Bend, Oregon where I discovered a lovely, framed copy of … [Read more...]
The Masculine Comes Calling
When Dana asked me to write about my experience as a man with the Divine Feminine, I was thrilled, then nervous as a chicken passing through the shadow of an axe. Like a lot of men I know, I’m the product of centuries of negative imprinting. We’ve been taught to be brutal, determined, silent, and emotionally unavailable. For me, it’s been a long, painful, and exhilarating … [Read more...]





