It is early morning,before the world wakes up. I open the front door. And here is heavensitting waiting for me to remember it. Geese and gulls fly across the sky sounding their distinct calls through the valley. Giant hydrangea blooms and tiny jasmine flowers abound. Up the garden, the first aquilegia seeds and a single Read more about Heaven[…]
Jane Hirshfield JasmineAlmost the twenty-first century —how quickly the thought will grow dated,even quaint.Our hopes, our future,will pass like the hopes and futures of others.And all our anxieties and terrors,nights of sleeplessness,griefs,will appear then as they truly are —Stumbling, delirious bees in the tea scent of jasmine.
The Goat: Capricorn Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse “if you were born withthe weakness to fallyou were born withthe strength to rise”– rupi kaur Riding the eclipse wave. We’ve made it to the third and final eclipse of the summer. This eclipse is the final chapter in the cycle of the past 18 months. that Read more about Lunar Eclipse[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Fairies: Discover the Magical World of the Nature Spirits By Flavia Peters https://books.google.com/books/about/Fairies.html?id=VKVGDwAAQBAJ
REBEKAH SHAMAN.com SUMMER SOLSTICE SOLAR ECLIPSE Winter and Summer Solstice are joyous celebrations where people stay up all night in order to greet the rising sun. It represents change, the ending of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. It is the time to celebrate what we have learnt during the past six months, Read more about Summer Solstice[…]
Death by noise. Unable to find Peace the whales run aground. My heart breaks. Lost words, Heartwood, Taproot. Rain makes the Earth solid not crumbly, allowing roots to get a sure hold. Breath out black sludge through your feet. Breath out black smoke through your chest. A cock’s crow blows in on the wind. Gust Read more about Wind[…]