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What is Imbolc?
What is Imbolc? I want you to imagine a time long, long ago. Before electricity, before the invention of canning (1809, France). Go back further, 1,000 years. Perhaps another 1,000 years. It is winter, you huddle around the fire in your home, the walls made of timber, the roof is thatch. You are running low …
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The Full Wolf Moon
We are never alone We are all wolves Howling to the same moon. – Atticus – The January full moon, the Full Wolf Moon, reaches it’s peak on January 28th at 11:18 am (pacific standard time), but the nights of January 27th and 28th will appear full and round, weather allowing. The Algonquin tribes called …
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The Full Cold Moon
Native Americans named the moons to track the passage of time. The Full Cold moon, or “tsothohrha” (time of cold), comes from the Mohawk tribe (the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy, southeastern Canada and northern New York). This is the final moon of the year and the one in which we have finally …
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Yule and the Solstice – Welcoming the Return of the Light
Our ancestors lived in a world where the sun and moon phases were their clocks, their rhythms, and their guides to the seasons. In the spring, they planted. During the summer and fall, they harvested. As the days became darker and the last bits of harvest was collected, our ancestors gathered wood and hunted, made …
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The Full Beaver Moon and Penumbral Eclipse
November’s moon is called the Full Beaver moon. The beaver is settling down, not for hibernation, but storing food for a long winter within their lodges.
