Tag: summer solstice

  • fauna-light, right out there

    Each year the wild plot behind my kitchen gets more exciting. Right now there’s lemon balm, oregano and yarrow enough for the taking, healthy rosemary, thyme, parsley, bergamot, basil and lavender, nettle that’s resetting. Chickweed and sorrel, spearmint and fleabane nestle in clumps elsewhere; so too wild blackberry bramble and so many wild messes of…

  • On the first full moon of summer

    The yarrow and mimosas are in flower, it’s a perfect night for lavender elder offering shmr and my nettle tops are finally ready for tea… Some vision comes for the continued establishing of the wild flower ditch, and on the first full moon of summer I pray (help us remember) to believe we’re magic…

  • Summer just started

    Sometimes in the early stages of learning to track their patterns I invite embodiment members in our co-op to learn their women’s mystery moon, meaning their own cycle of their own womb. And to do this I illustrate the idea that if asked, folks usually answer that the moon’s cycle is 28 days when in…

  • Under this last week’s day moon sun

    As a kid for me the start of summer was always Memorial Day weekend because that was the first weekend we went to the beach every year. Like it really was startling to me, one of the openings in the field where I thought, ohh now I’m an adult, when I realized there were warm…