Category Archives: Celebration

And here we are again, in the thick of the dark days, waiting for the light, waiting for the recharge of solar energy into our bones and brains. The year shifts from practice to a bit more theory and planning. We tend to our ecological relations in different ways — in sometimes more subtle ways,Continue reading “Solstice Happenings”

The autumn of things is in their focus inward; saving all the resplendent energies to rest, repair, and then to rebuild (as seasons cycle). The colors of this fading summer woo us with promises of rebirth, sure, but generally, we are on the same path and find that we are much more wooed by theContinue reading “Foliage and Past Autumns”

This Summer starts with a healthy dose of heat and humidity. And though we’ve had rain every week, it still feels a little dry in the garden (the corn are really calling to me to carry water up to them — days past we had a watering system in the garden but between changing upContinue reading “Summer Solstice”

We have had a wonderful time to be together this Winter Solstice — we did many of the things we set out to do; relax, clean up the house a bit and get into the studio, eat biscuits with jam (and marmalade — thank you to the beautiful bread members who shared their Autumn OliveContinue reading “Happenings: Bringing in a new year”

We are generally trapped by the dominant paradigm of colonialist/commercialist (because the Santa you know and love is a coca-cola marketing campaign) racist/sexist/homophobic ‘holidays’ that seem to permeate the last couple of months of the year. I know, I know, we’ve been told we don’t have any christmas spirit (and you are right, nor doContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Winter Solstice on the way!”

So many great moon energies to go with our mid-Autumn celebrations; the New Moon on the 1st will re-invigorate our connections. The waning moon feels fitting to me right now, as we ride the wave closer to the line between life and death — almost touching before rebounding, like the space between the inhale andContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Samhain Energies”