by Monika Carless | Feb 2, 2016 | Musings
Sometimes February can seem like the darkest, coldest month; a time when winter is at her worst. In fact, February is a month of Awakening. The days have been lengthening since the 21st. of December, and some species are mating, like owls, while the first of the...
by Monika Carless | Oct 27, 2015 | Musings
From sunset on October 31st to sunset November 2nd—wise women, wizards and mystics in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate a full turn of the Druidic year. I’ve never truly resonated with the Gregorian New Year on January 1st. I’ve long since abandoned celebrating the...
by Monika Carless | Aug 2, 2015 | Musings
Lammas, the Celtic festival of the seed harvest, falls at the end of July and beginning of August in the Northern hemisphere. It’s the one festival in the turn of the wheel that seems to slip by me if I am not careful. The summer days are long and sultry at this time...
by Monika Carless | May 3, 2015 | Musings
Full Moon magic is powerful. The weeks preceding May 4th’s Full Seed Moon (as it is traditionally called) have been turbulent for many of us. It seems that no-one has been getting any sleep. I have been confronted deeply with my...
by Monika Carless | Apr 28, 2015 | Musings
Beltane, the early Celtic feast of the Green Man and the Green Goddess, is celebrated from sunset April 30 through sunset May 2nd, and is more modernly called “May Day.” It can be pronounced as it appears: bell-tane, or...
