The best season
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,this is the best season of your life. by Wu Men Hui-k’aiEnglish version by Stephen Mitchell
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
Joy Harjo Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop. Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you. Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering essences of plants to clean. Give it back with gratitude. If Read more about For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet[…]
September Almanac
1st September – Start of Meteorological Autumn 7th Jewish New Year 5782 starts the 10 days of awe to Yom Kippur 8th New Moon in Virgo 11th Rastafarian New Year 16th Yom Kippur Jewish Day of atonement – holiest day of the year. The literal translation of kippurim is cleansing. Yom Kippur is a Jewish day to Read more about September Almanac[…]
Early Autumn
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000m11v A birdsong garden Autumn Passage – Geoff Sample From The essay – BBC R3https://youtu.be/wdLSbMMnAys
Moon phases
Watch the animation below to see how the phases of the Moon work during a complete lunar cycle. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/names-full-moons-throughout-year How many phases of the Moon are there? In between these, the Moon goes through multiple stages of partial illumination during its different phases. These are the banana-shaped crescent Moon, the D-shaped quarter Moon and the almost complete gibbous Moon. Read more about Moon phases[…]
The Natural Flow of Life
In the Complete book of Oriental Yoga Hatha and Taoist Yoga for the Seasons By Michael Hetherington says,“ There is no doubt that energy moves through us differently according to the time of day, the climatic conditions, the attitudes we harbor and the cycles of the moon, just to name a few. With the natural Read more about The Natural Flow of Life[…]
Seasonal rhythms
The Earth’s seasons can be understood as “phases of the Sun”, similar to how the Moon goes through its cycle of phases. This graph shows the seasons in the Northern Hemisphere, with the x-axis being time and the y-axis being intensity of Sun energy (blue) and temperature (pink). (For the Southern Hemisphere, this cycle is Read more about Seasonal rhythms[…]
Mists and swifts
Mists swirl and swift’s dart pas we dive out across the mountain on the road to nowhere The first hints of autumn running into auburn tinges to the greenery
“We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” T.S.ELIOT
We are seekers by nature and we go forth onto the world, fueled by desire or reason, to search for that missing piece. But at the very last, we realize with a burst of insight that what we were seeking was ourselves, and we always had it with us. Only it was hidden beneath layers Read more about “We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” T.S.ELIOT[…]
Jewish High Holy days
The ten days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur are the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days or Yamim Nora’im (“Days of Awe”). They correspond to the last ten days of the 40-day period Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the second set of tablets. Heavenly books opened According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person’s fate for the Read more about Jewish High Holy days[…]
The end of August
Thick cloud. Raspberries blackberries. Scarlet clusters of Hawthorn berries and mountain ash Rowan berries the anticipation of a new school year just around the corner. this year Ben off to London, Will’s final year in Cornwall and me part time
Grounding/ Earthing
https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding Grounding, also called earthing, is a therapeutic technique that involves doing activities that “ground” or electrically reconnect you to the earth. This practice relies on earthing science and grounding physics to explain how electrical chargesTrusted Source from the earth can have positive effects on your body. This type of grounding therapy isn’t entirely the same as Read more about Grounding/ Earthing[…]
Tend to you own patch
January 2013Wendell Berry’s Philosophy Of Education: Lessons From Port WilliamJane Margaret Schreck Simply stated, I believe Berry wants every place on earth loved and cared for and every person on earth able and pleased to love and care for a place and all the creatures in it, human and not human. He believes this is Read more about Tend to you own patch[…]
Chill air and hibiscus flowers
It’s early morning. The full moon beginning to wane. Peak summer energy dropping away. I love this garden, this little patch of paradise, with splashes of leftover flowers, pink, yellow, orange and white dapple the green foliage.I hear the wind and see it pushing through the high treesbut here on this sheltered terrace it barely Read more about Chill air and hibiscus flowers[…]
Blue Moon – in Aquarius – Corn, sturgeon, lightening or fruit moon
There are two different definitions for a Blue Moon. A seasonal Blue Moon is the third Full Moon of an astronomical season that has four Full Moons. A monthly Blue Moon is the second Full Moon in a calendar month with two Full Moons. The Full Moon on August 22/23, 2021 is a seasonal Blue Moon.