Lighting candles and performing rituals is wonderful, but celebrating the Moon with ordinary gestures can be even sweeter and more intimate. Full Moon Sesame Bath Everything is juicier and more out-of-control during the Full Moon—which makes this brief massage with sesame oil especially rich and rewarding. It is grounding and beautifying. It’s also an easy way to tune into … [Read more...]
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...]
Back in my Jurassic, pre-Internet teenage days, I answered an ad in the back of a book and sent away for a copy of my birth chart. When it arrived in the mail, scribbled in an actual astrologer’s cryptic hand, I was disappointed to find that the Moon was in Gemini at my birth. I’d never read anything good about Gemini. Any planets in Gemini, I was led to understand, doomed your … [Read more...]
We all come from the earth and we all return to the earth With its cooler days and longer nights, mid-autumn is nearly here. In many cultures, the holy day of Hallowmas (aka Hallow's Eve, Samhain and yes, Halloween) meant the end of the current year. November 1st to December 21st (Winter Solstice) was a "timeless time, " a complete deathing of the old cycle, a season for … [Read more...]
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...]
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