This year’s cover shows Persephone. She was the daughter of the Greek goddess Demeter (the Roman Ceres), the goddess of fertility and grain growing. The story is that Hades, the god of the underworld, saw her and wanted her but her mother protected her. Persephone disappears But one day Persephone was wandering in the countryside … Read more
The Celtic Tree for the Gatherer’s moon is the Hazel tree. The nine hazels of the Poetic Art dropped nuts into the pool and they were eaten by the Salmon of Knowledge. This is the fruit and nut harvest time, and corn, barley and beans. The goddesses are Sif, Ceres, Demeter. This is a time … Read more
This is the Sky’s Moon, lasting from July 28th to August 27th.I always think of this as the holiday Moon. It brings Lammas, a Christian festival which is derived from Lughnasad, a pagan commemoration of the death of the King Ludd or Lugh and the first harvest. In the pagan tradition, where the two consorts … Read more
The new moon was at 2:53 Greenwich Mean time, or UTC as they now call it. This is the second midsummer moon, the Moon of Bees. Where the Moon of Blossoms was the time for haymaking from the lush grasses that grow so fast as the sun warms the earth, in this moon we move … Read more