The partial lunar eclipse happened when the moon was low in the sky, and there was a fair amount of cloud here. But after the eclipse, the clouds cleared and the moon rose over the rooftops. I had a bonfire lit and locally picked herbs to burn. Key words for this full moon were: - Compassion - Vulnerability - Imagination - Sensitivity - Avoidance - Procrastination  Questions and Considerations: The power of imagination and intuition. How can we follow our hearts and live a compassionate lifestyle? This is a time of great sensitivity toward the emotions of others, and a yearning to give comfort to anyone who needs it. This willingness to help can grow to feel like a great burden. This can lead a sensitive person to hide away from the world because they feel overwhelmed by the work that needs to be done. In this case, we really need to take care of ourselves, to become emotionally stable and focused on practical goals. The key is to find some small way that you can use your beautiful...

The tarot card I pulled today was The Knight of Swords. This card provokes us to consider activities we want to do, travel, being out and about, getting things accomplished. I feel lately that I just don't have the time or energy to do all the things. I am feeling tired, a little lost, somewhat fed up. I am trying to connect with what brings me joy, my passion. The Knight points to a need for silence and space to deepen our understanding. Clear cut answers are revealed when we focus our minds in meditation. The oracle card for today is Mystic Mermaid. She reminds us to pamper ourselves with a heavy dose of self-love. I think it's been difficult for me to remember to look after myself with the most basic things like a healthy diet and good sleep. I am having to remind myself to drink water and stop doomscrolling on my phone. 

The key word for the astrological sign of Sagittarius is "independence". Sagittarius is the sign of the philosopher and the explorer. The main challenge for Sagittarius however is emotional intelligence. Sagittarius struggles to connect on an emotional level with others, to be emotionally intimate with others as well as their own heart. For this reason, the energy of Sagittarius can seem aloof or distant, always on the move and never wanting to settle down, abrupt and often tactless. The strength of Sagittarius is a fearless drive to explore and to treat life as a great adventure.  The tarot card that I pulled for this full moon was The Hermit. Here we see the independent nature of Sagittarius as they embark upon their spiritual journey. A fearless adventurer, the solitary mystic holds a fiery lamp to light the way. What this tells me is that the full moon in Sagittarius is an important time to travel inward and reconnect with the fire therein. Spend some time alone,...

For the lovely full moon on the 31st July, me and a couple of friends went down to the beach to build a bonfire. We were collecting twigs as the sun set, and started contructing our bonfire just as the moon was rising over the sea. Our attempts to make fire weren't all that successful but it was fun. We burnt herbs on the fire, and the scented smoke wafted around us. The moon was hanging low over the sea, casting a glittery trail of light toward us. We waded into the waves with our containers to collect the sparkly moon water. I filled a large glass jar full of warm water that had been heated by the sun during the day. The sky was quite dark by this point, and we decided to draw oracle and tarot cards by the light of the moon. We were using Destiny's Portal oracle cards and the Tarot of the Hidden Realm. We were all amazed as we read the cards, they were so accurate. I drew the cards "Renaissance Rose" and "Fairy Stallion" which reflected my situatio...

The moon is a mirror, reflecting the light of the sun back to Earth during the night. This is why it represents the reflective quality of our dreams, which play out the worries and problems of our day through the language of mythic symbols. What is a myth, but a collective dream? Why do we dream? Nobody is sure, but there are several theories. Some say it is a way for us to process and store our memories. We tell ourselves a story of what has happened, we create the legend of our lives. Memories are very malleable, it has been scientifically shown that memories can be planted into one's mind, and people are easily fooled into believing they saw something they didn't. In our ever day lives, the brain has a tendency to fill in the gaps of perception, making presumptions based on past experiences. We suppose that something should be a certain way, and so our brains tell us it is so. It is difficult to know how accurate our perceptions of the world are, and whether we are seein...

A new lunar month is upon us! This is what the Anglo-Saxons called Hrēþ-mōnaþ, the moon of the goddess Hretha, also known as Rheda. Although we have next to nothing to base our ideas on, just like the goddess Ostara, we can guess as to her role. Some have suggested that she could have been a warrior goddess, who fights away the darkness of winter, in order for the spring equinox to triumph. The Romans named this month after the warrior god Mars. March was considered the first month of the Roman calendar year, until perhaps as late as 153 BCE. England later adopted the 25th March as their New Year, until reverting back to 1st January in 1752. Another name for this month is Lentmonat , meaning the month of "spring" or "lengthening of days". This is where we get the term "Lent" from, as a spring period during which food is sparse. In England a common feature of this month is the blossoming of daffodils, which spend most of the year dormant beneath the E...

January 2014 has been pretty special because we've begun with a super new moon, then we had a micro full moon, and as the month draws to a close we have another super new moon. "Super" means the moon is especially close to the Earth, and "micro" means it is especially far away from the Earth. If you imagine the moon travelling around the Earth, it doesn't travel in a perfect circle, and it doesn't travel at a consistent speed either. So, sometimes it goes round closer and faster, other times it goes round slower and further away. That's why the current lunar month is 29 days, 10 hours, and 24 minutes, but the next lunar month will be 29 days, 10 hours, and 21 minutes long, and the duration of the lunar months continue to vary throughout the year. In preshistoric times, looking at the moon was one of the easiest way to track the passing of time. Some cultures measured the start of a lunar month to be the new moon, others thought of the first cr...

May is named after the a ncient Italic goddess of spring, Maia. She was identified with Terra and Bona Dea by the late antiquarian writer Macrobius. He also associated her with Fauna, Cybele, Ops, Juno, and Carna. This treatment of the goddess was probably influenced by the 1st century BCE scholar Varro, who tended to resolve a great number of deities into one archetypal Mother Earth. On the first day of May, observed in the lunar calendar with the first appearance of the crescent moon, ancestor spirits were honoured and a pregnant sow was sacrificed to Maia. On the full moon, Maia's son , Mercury, was honoured as patron god of merchants.  According to Greek mythology, Maia was the eldest of seven sisters , the Pleiades. Hers is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades cluster , also known as the Maia Nebula, which is part of the constellation Taurus. " Maia of the lively eyes: Atlas fathered her, outstanding in beauty, among his seven dear violet-haired daughters w...

  (Nature Unveiling Herself to Science by L ouis Barrias in 1899, Musee d'Orsay.) "Hear ye the words of the Star Goddess, She in the dust of whose feet are the hosts of Heaven, whose body encircleth the universe. 'I who am the beauty of the green earth; and the White Moon amongst the Stars; and the mystery of the Waters; and the desire of the heart of man. I call unto thy soul: arise and come unto me. For I am the Soul of nature who giveth life to the Universe; From me all things proceed; and unto me, all things must return.'" The Prose Charge The Great Goddess of Wicca is described as Mother Nature Herself. She is the creative force of the Universe. Nature is envisioned as a Mother because the Latin word natura means "to birth".  The personification of Mother Nature, was widely popular in the Middle Ages. Mother Earth or Eorthe in Old English was also popular. The Norse personified Mother Earth as Jord . The Greeks called Her Ma-ka (translit...