The soil and air temperatures have usually warmed up by the middle of the month and all the tender plants can safely go outside so May is often the busiest month for UK gardeners. It’s always worth planning, and keeping an eye out, for any late frosts. The May Full Moon is known as the…
March is the month when we can really start to manifest our garden dreams. The days are getting noticeably longer, and the air and soil temperatures are starting to warm up. The Spring Equinox is on 20 March 2024. The day when day and night are of equal duration and you should gather your friends…
Have you ever noticed how many of our early wildflowers making an appearance after Imbolc are pale in colour? Think of the white snowdrops and the pale-yellow hazel catkins. It’s as if these flowers are quietly announcing nature’s first stirrings, and the gentle return of the light before we get the brighter coloured flowers of…
Consider the leaf piles and the broken branches that accumulate after the first winter storms. These dead plants may benefit creatures that we cannot see and will decay and disappear from sight. There will be transformation. By bacteria, mushrooms, worms, mosses, by time … they are no longer ours. We can let go of our…
Full Moon Moments: Hunter’s Moon and Seed Fall Moon The names for this Full Moon relate to the preparations for winter in the Northern Hemisphere and, since all endings contain the seeds of the next cycle, there are essential preparations for Spring. Hunter’s Moon is the Anglo-Saxon name for this Full Moon as this is…
Written by Chris Ellis The whole planet is standing in balance at the Equinoxes; having the same experience of light. This week initiates a 20-year phase of deep transformation of our planetary life. Northern Hemisphere Spring Equinox 20 March 2023 The Equinoxes are moments in the year at which light and dark are of equal…
by Glennie Kindred I’ve always loved writing in a journal and have been doing it since my early twenties. I have a pile of them! A catalogue of my dialogues with myself as I try and make sense of the world around me and my journey through this life… A journal is not the same…