Category: Wheel of the year
Taurus Season
Taurus season from April 20 to May 20 “Invites us to slow down and feel the ground beneath our feet.” Mmmmm… Taurus season begins today It’s a WOW month! Here is life again exploding in every direction, after the long winter abundance is everywhere. At this moment, the increasing light is beginning to be felt in Read more about Taurus Season[…]
Chinese Gu yu Grain Rain
April 20 -May 04 Gu yu is the last solar term of spring & marks the beginning of warmer temperatures and the onset of the rainy season, marking the time when rainfall becomes sufficient to nourish crops, allowing growth to take root and develop more fully. It is therefore an important period for farmers to Read more about Chinese Gu yu Grain Rain[…]
Wild garlic and rhubarb
Cuckoos and dandelion clocks South easterly winds scatter blossom forget me nots and bluebells burst into blue seagulls and crows a jet black cat soaking up the sunshine and having it stroked in Flies darting to and fro in the sunlight and the dappled shadows dancing across the grass chased by a tiny tortoise the Read more about Wild garlic and rhubarb[…]
Chinese season of Clear and Bright / Pure Brightness
Time of Blossom, Migrating birds, Rainbows and Honouring the ancestors China Japan Qingming festival one of China’s largest events based off of the lunar calendar when Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings to their ancestors. Honoring one’s ancestors is deeply rooted in Chinese culture, as Read more about Chinese season of Clear and Bright / Pure Brightness[…]
Good friday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tp83 Radio 4 Good Friday meditation – Behold the Man
April moon gardening
Pisces/ Aries lunation 2nd – Full moon Harvest rhubarb kale purple sprouting Waning GibbousSew crops that develop below ground, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, radish, beetroot. Summer bulbs & onions Waning CrescentRack & weed, Prune Dark moonReflect, review. 17th New moon in Aries Dream plan. Waxing Crescent Sew crops that develop above ground lettuce, salad, cucumber, tomatoes & Read more about April moon gardening[…]
April
Start April Sunrise (Twilight (6.16am) 6.50am, Sunset (Twilight) 7.49pm (8.24pm) By the end of the month (5.48am) 8.38am 8.38pm (9.16pm) Hailstones & Sunshine, blackbirds bicker, blackthorn blossoms, Llygaid Ebril – Aprils eye, the celandine opens 1st April fools day Passover 2nd Full Pink Moon in Libra 3rd Good Friday 5th Qing Ming Read more about April[…]
Vernal Equinox – Ostara
The time of the year equivalent to 6am We enter the light half of the year and rise from sleep Light reaches its peak of increasing at 4 minutes per day compared to 1 minute/day at the solstice. It will continue to increase but more gradually from now until the summer solstice. The full moon Read more about Vernal Equinox – Ostara[…]