Night returns
Another turning A signpost in the wheel of the year. One month after the solstice. As the new moon risesTrue night returns
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Late Summer
As we move into late summer, The Earth, air and Sea are at their warmest. It is holiday season and there is a lazy feeling, things can wait. There is a feeling of abundance. The natural world is ripening. Lammas, on the 1st August, being the first of the 3 harvest phases of year, wheat Read more about Late Summer[…]
St. Swithan’s Day
St. Swithin’s Day, also called St. Swithun’s Day, (July 15), a day on which, according to folklore, the weather for a subsequent period is dictated. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will rain for 40 days, but if it is fair, 40 days of fair weather will follow. St. Swithin was bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862. Read more about St. Swithan’s Day[…]
Holly – Eighth month of the Ogham Celtic Tree calendar, July 8th – August 4th
The year has turned, the Holly king rises into ascendancy as the light begins to wane. http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Holly.htm Tree of SacrificeIlexEighth month of the Celtic Tree calendar, July 8th – August 4thEighth consonant of the Ogham alphabet – Tinne Planet: Mars and SaturnElement: FireSymbolism: The Sword of Truth, Unconditional love, sacrifice, reincarnationStone: Ruby, BloodstonePowers: Protection, Anti-Lightning, Luck, Dream Read more about Holly – Eighth month of the Ogham Celtic Tree calendar, July 8th – August 4th[…]
Xiao shu – slight heat
The heat rises in the chinese solar lunar calendar
July
Heart meridians And throat chakra Om mani padme hum Padma mudra
July Bloom & Wild
A messy riot, Purple Knapweed, Yellow wagtails, red hot Pokers of Rosebay Willowherb & Puffs of Meadowsweet against a backdrop of Thunderous skies & the smell of cool woodlands 3rd The Dog days of summer – the Time of searing heat 7th Chinese season of Xiǎo shǔ – Slight heat 10th Full Buck moon in Read more about July Bloom & Wild[…]
Four Seasons – Summer Poems
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Initiation Song from the Finders Lodge
Please bring strange things. Please come bringing new things. Let very old things come into your hands. Let what you do not know come into your eyes. Let desert sand harden your feet. Let the arch of your feet be the mountains. Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps and the ways you go be the lines on your palms. Let Read more about Initiation Song from the Finders Lodge[…]
Summer Solstice
Now I become myself Now I become myself. It’s takenTime, many years and places;I have been dissolved and shaken,Worn other people’s faces,Run madly, as if Time were there,Terribly old, crying a warning,“Hurry, you will be dead before—”(What? Before you reach the morning?Or the end of the poem is clear?Or love safe in the walled city?)Now Read more about Summer Solstice[…]