Purple and Orange

Here is midsummer. The time of purple and orange. Out of a Jurassic forest of foliage rise the polemonium spears. holding aloft their beautiful-blue purple flower clusters. While pink-purple rockets burst forth on the buddleia bush. And Orange hawkbit waft their devil’s paintbrushes highamong the tall spears of lucifers Crosimia and the low snaking tendrils Read more about Purple and Orange[…]

Black moon cycle

The next black moon cycle begins with the solar eclipse in Cancer on 21st June 2020. The actual black moon occurs on 20th July 2020. This cycle continues until the next black moon cycle which is in Aries, beginning in March 2023. https://astro-awakenings.co.uk/hot-topics/black-moon. Astrology with Sarah Varcas Most people have heard of a blue moon but black moons Read more about Black moon cycle[…]

Mercury Retrograde In the Eclipse Season

18th June – 12th July. The seemingly disruptive energy of Mercury in trograde continues into July and in conjunction with eclipse season, the twisting and turning of the energy of this time, whilst potentially shaking us up, is actually calling for us to learn to live in attunement with the natural cycles of life and Read more about Mercury Retrograde In the Eclipse Season[…]

First seeds

Drying Aquilegia seedpods. Clover flowers floating like miniature lotus flowers on a pool of green.Seas of mint and pink geranium, Pale yellow stars of the lady’s mantle Spears of LavenderAnd tiny orchids of the dead nettle. Foxgloves trumpets held on high. Soft leaves, spiky leaves, furry alchemilla leaves, leathery leaves of the peony and hydrangea. Read more about First seeds[…]

The Return

For a moment we hover at the Peak, the pinnacle, the turning point. And then the seasons turn once more. The sun begins to waneImperceptibly at first, the morning and then the evening, quietly begin to draw in. The slow descent into winter begins. So here we are. The hum of the distant motorway is Read more about The Return[…]

Coming back to Earth

I stop. Look up. Blue sky. Green hedge. Solid Earth. I land,Feeling gravity holding me close. Where have I been? Away with the fairies over the summer solstice. Journeying. The circle has gone now, vanishing as quickly as it appeared.It’s good to come back down to Earth Grounded. I roll onto my belly, feeling my Read more about Coming back to Earth[…]