By Fire Well and Tree

Time to get ready for the next moonth!  (Oops, this was supposed to out early... I need to figure out auto-posts more!) As always, these should be seen as only ideas for focusing in meditation, ritual, or just random deep thoughts throughout the month. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/rain-drops-459451/ The Farmer's Almanac has named this Worm Moon.  The Full Moon is usually in the calendar month of March and around here that means late winter/early spring rains, bringing the worms to the surface.  The Coligny Calendar calls this "Anagantios," which in our grove we call 'stay at home month.'  Our priests come around on the sixth night of the moon to do house blessings.  From the Anglo-Saxons, we have Hreþmonaþ, the month of the Goddess Hreþe or Rheda.  This is the only reference to this goddess we know of, from Bede's Reckoning of Time.  This is when there were sacrifices to her, although who "her" is, is a mystery.   Accor...

 I hope the Leo Full moon Sunday night had you find your creativity!   I ended up leading an Imbolc rite at  the store , but before that managed to sneak in to a workshop by my friend, Forest, on Astrology for Manifestation.   I'm not going to give any spoilers, but I'm TOTALLY going to plug her workshops. Her approach to astrology is as a tool for self-knowledge and self-actualization (my interpretation, anyway) rather than a determination of your fate, and it's at the down to earth and accessible, and at the same time well-researched and in-depth. She knows her stuff. Take her classes, get your chart done! End of commercial. What it got me thinking about was how astrology fits into my current path. I like writing about suns and moons (as you can tell) but I'm never sure how it "fits." The way Druidry has developed (at least my order), there's very little call for astrology in any formal way. I remember as a baby-pagan reading about houses and signs and p...