On the 15th day of July 2015, we celebrate Mooncircles’ 15th birthday. That means, on our little piece of the cloud, we’ve celebrated over 375 New and Full Moons. We appreciate all who have joined us over the years in celebrating the Divine Feminine. We hope our ever widening circles of Moon lovers continue to bring more wisdom, joy, and intuitive understanding to the world.
We launched on a Mercury retrograde near a solar eclipse. I mention this to offer courage to anyone who finds they’re beginning something at a notoriously bad time. Such a birth chart might have spelled our doom. But the momentum for launching that summer was strong, so we embraced it consciously. We knew it would encourage us to keep making changes and keep growing beyond our vision, and, without losing our central theme, this is what we’ve done.
One ambitious plan that failed was hosting real-time Full Moon ceremonies–at the Full Moon moment–with participants around the world. I don’t know if anyone ever did join us–but after a few months of these virtual ceremonies, even we lost interest in them. What worked was to offer bi-monthly space for wonderful voices, studying, cheering, and wondering about the Moon.
We continue to move in that direction. For the past year, I’ve been working on yet another “wing” for the site, a playground for calculating charts and learning astrology in an easy, intuitive way. As always, taking such an idea into reality goes more slowly than I’d wish, but I’ll be delighted if in the meantime, you keep spending your Moons with us.
congratulations and happy happy, dana!!! i have had the pleasure of reading your articles since the nineties in mountian astrologer. i could never get enough… you were the main reason i subscribed! thank you for your dedication to your craft, and in expanding your horizons ~ giving us all a glimpse of what was possible to accomplish, too. you have all ways been so generous in sharing your knowledge and, most importantly, your wisdom. thank you. with love, g.
thanks everybody… you’re all why we do this!
Happy birthday, moon circles!
I started my blog on the Moon in September 2013, inspired by Dana’s “Moon Watching Series” I had found in http://www.astro.com. Next, I found you, Mooncircles, on line, and I started performing your New Moon and Full Moon rituals and reading your articles at the Aquarious New Moon of January 2014 – and haven’t stoped until now!
I thank you so much for your dramatic help in honoring my feminine side (Moon in Taurus, Venus in Pisces) and for all the beautiful changes in myself and in my life.
Hip, hip hurrah!
Happy birthday! I will keep on spending every new and full moon with you.
Happy Birthday! There are few, if any, newsletters, that have stood the test of time in my inbox, but yours is one of them. I relish seeing your smiling, wise faces in my inbox and slip away somewhere quiet to read in solitude each time. Here’s to many more moon cycles together!
Happy birthday moon circles! ! This 15th day of July 2015 will also be 15 years since my grandad passed to spirit! Also my first sons 11th birthday, I like the more sweet this day becomes rather than the sadness this day once brought to me :))