Dancing Nature's Rhythms
Worts & weeds for bees, goldfinches chatter & swallows prepare to leave, blackberries & rowan berries & a shower of hazelnut husks from fattening squirrels. Named after the Roman emperor Augustus Listen to Lia Leendertz August podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xJAM0P94rx8nWgHBIQSEG?si=eQlY6YWARvmMif4dsWThPQ&dl_branch=1
Set the seed Late summer (Earth element) is the most humid time of year. It’s that time when the days are still long and hot but the intensity of the summer heat has started to back off a little. In many of the tropical countries it gives rise to the monsoon season. This time of Read more about Late Summer[…]
Pam Younghans says, a Full Moon in Aquarius is electrical – surprising and at times even shocking. The sign is independent, unconventional, and rebellious, often socially aware and progressive. But, at the same time, Aquarius is a fixed sign, which means it can be strongly opinionated and resistant to input from others, preferring to live according to Read more about Buck Full thunder Moon in Aquarius[…]
Lions gate starting 28th July peaking and celebrated on 8th -12th August & lasting until the end of Leo (21st August) is the Egyptian return of the flood, fertility and the divine feminine, bringing in infinite abundance, incredible potential for manifestation, creativity and heightened sensitivity to equanimity, heightened spiritual awareness, awakening, and insight and healing. Read more about Lion’s gate[…]
24th July – 11th AugustRoughly corresponding to the sun being Leo, the searing heat of this time of summer. From the Dog Star Sirius returning to rise over the pre-Dawn horizon which for the Egyptians occurred in early July & heralded the flooding of the Nile & the return of fertility. The Dog Star’s connection Read more about Dog days of Summer abundance[…]
Lasting until the 8th August which is the begninning of Autumn coinciding with the Celtic festival of Lammas the first harvest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar At Dashu, the sun crosses the celestial longitude of 120°, a full 30° past the summer solstice. While daylight hours have already begun to shorten after Xiaoshu (小暑), the cumulative heat from prolonged Read more about Da Shu – The Chinese 3 week season of Great heat[…]
It Felt Love How did the roseEver open its heartAnd give to this worldAll its beauty?It felt the encouragement of lightAgainst its being,Otherwise,We all remainToo frightened By: Hafiz
Mary Magdalene in The Golden Legend Mary Magdalene had her surname of Magdalo, a castle, and was born of right noble lineage and parents, which were descended of the lineage of kings. And her father was named Cyrus, and her mother Eucharis. She with her brother Lazarus, and her sister Martha, possessed the castle of Read more about Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day[…]
https://www.rebekahshaman.com The World’s Soul is a Woman – The Gnostic Myth of Sophia. Gaia.com So why is it that we have this understanding of the benevolent feminine nature of the world, but we don’t seem to let it shape our reality the way it could? Is it that we simply don’t know any better? I Read more about The Gnostic Myth of Divine Sophia[…]
The turning of the year as the temperature peaks and starts its gradual descent. And the growing season turns to ripening and harvest. When Leo is in its strength and power, this energy knows and remembers its radiant and shining divine essence, shared by all life. We are born to make manifest the glory of Read more about Sun in Leo[…]