The full moon of April 19th, 2019 will occur at 3:12 am PST in the sign of Libra. A full moon occurs when the sun and the moon are opposite each other, with the earth sitting in between. At this time, the bright face of the moon is fully illuminated with the light of the […]
This Friday we celebrate a new moon in Aries, a moon that I like to call the Spring Fire Moon as it initiates us into the spring season and a new astrological year. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and brings with it a sense of exuberance and courage, qualities that we can […]
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows’ wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke The snow is still cold and icy on […]
I was 10 years old, riding on a slow pony in the untamed grasses of Quebec when I first fell in love with treasure hunting in forests. Today, I call it wildcrafting and medicine gathering, but back then it was just a way in which my sister and I spent with my Uncle Klaus. Klaus, who […]
The Pisces New Moon is the last moon of winter, and one that I call the Winter Wind Moon as the winds of winter still continue to blow even as the fire of Spring stirs below the surface of the snow. This Pisces New Moon of Feb 2017 also bring with it a solar eclipse, […]
In honour of tomorrow’s New Moon in Pisces and the launch of my Thirteen Moons program I am excited to offer a guest blog from my colleague Lila Rasa Brown, yoga teacher, and Evolutionary Astologer. Lila will contribute monthly Astro- wisdom articles such as this one to the Thirteen Moons Sadhana Circle and I am […]
“Creativity is defined as the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships or the likes, to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations… etc. It is often synonymous with words such as inventiveness, imagination, innovation, originality and individuality.” ~ Erica Djossa When I was a child I wrote stories, made up worlds, drew comic […]
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. ~ T.S. Eliot Each year I take a conscious pause in my teaching schedule during the winter holidays. I do this so that I can catch my breath after the busy autumn season and so that I can take stock […]
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.” ~Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Today is the day of the Winter Solstice, a time of great […]
Deep winter is the time of long dark nights on either side of the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, a season that can support us in drawing inwards, tending to our hearth fires, and remembering what is most sacred to us- both as individuals, and as beings who are part of a larger web […]
