This Friday is a pretty special date. We will start the day with an awesome Solar Eclipse, beginning at 08:22 and ending at 10:38 GMT. This rare phenomenon will see Europe have 90% of its rays blocked out temporarily, with that figure rising to 94% in Scotland and up to 100% in Svalbard Norway and the Faroe Islands. This will be the biggest eclipse that Britain has seen since 1999. The word eclipse actually comes from the Ancient Greek work ekleipsis, which meant being abandoned. It was believed by the Ancient Greeks that the Sun would abandon us temporarily if the gods were angered. In many different cultures, there are stories of how the Sun was eaten or stolen to explain away the eclipse. Among them is the Viking fable that the Sun goddess is chased by a wolf, and when the animal catches her, a Solar Eclipse happens. Korean folklore suggests that solar eclipses happen because mythical dogs are trying to steal the Sun. In China, the belief was that a dragon attempted to eat ...

   Everytime I go outside I see new flowers popping up where there weren't any before. It's so exciting! Every day it seems to get a little bit milder, and the evenings draw out for a little bit longer. I love coming home from work while the sun is still up! I go down to the beach to catch the last rays and marvel at the variety of sunsets each evening provides. The twilight hours are so magical, the birds give their last song of the day, and the foxes sneak from garden to garden. Each evening is a little bit brighter than the last. It won't be long until I'm lying on the warm golden sand, basking in the evening sun of summer. We are approaching Spring Equinox, one of my favourite times of year! It is especially fun because of all the cute decorations. I already found an Easter Tree to decorate. It's a tradition from Sweden, and is found in many Germanic-speaking countries. Another thing Germanic-speaking countries tend to have in common is the use of the word Ea...

So, it's the New Moon tomorrow, at precisely 19:45 GMT if you want to be specific. This is also Mother's Day in the UK and the start of British Summer Time. So, I will be setting my clocks tonight, one hour forward, and then in the morning I'll try to surprise my mum with breakfast in bed. It's a lovely way to start Eostre's moon, which reaches it's fullness at 08:43 on the morning of the 15th April. It is during April that I plan on finally moving into my new home. I have made a couple of videos to show you around, but it still isn't quite ready to live in due to the fact that we have been plastering the walls, fitting a new bathroom and new kitchen. Today I've been fixing the sheds up with my dad, and tudying up the garden. I have a bunch of photos on instagram and facebook. This will be a lovely new home, and in case you are wondering how I can afford this, it's all thanks to my brother Tom. It's actually his house he bought in auction, a...

We are currently in the lunar month of goddess Rheda, and the Spring Equinox is drawing near. The next lunar month is that of goddess Eostre, also known as Ostara. For this reason, many pagans celebrate the Spring Equinox as the festival of Ostara. Who is this mystery goddess? It was the 8th century historian Saint Bede who made written record of this Anglo-Saxon deity. He claimed that the Christian festival of Christ's resurrection became known as Easter because it falls on the first Sunday after Eostre's full moon. Her name is ultimately related to the word east , which comes from the Proto-Indo-European word for "shine" or "dawn". Therefore, we assume that Eostre is a goddess of the dawn, and the increasing sunlight which follows the Spring Equinox. There are several places in England which may have been named after the goddess, such as Eastry in Kent, Eastrea in Cambridgeshire, and Eastrington in Yorkshire. Jacob Grimm theorised that her Old Germa...