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Long Snows Moon, December 5
The Long Snows Moon begins to signal the shift into the winter season that begins on the solstice (December 21). This is the time of introspection, of quiet meditation, of allowing the last year to fall away effortlessly, and of anticipating the quiet to come with the winter season.
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Freeze-Up Moon, November 5
This Freeze-Up Moon continues the time of nights getting longer, nature’s energy retreating into the earth, temperatures turning cooler, and the leaves turning colors.
Have you allowed yourself to slow down as well after the busy energies of summer?
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Ducks Fly Moon, October 6
The Ducks Fly Moon is after the autumnal equinox and signals a change of energy from the active Spring and Summer seasons to the slower energies of Fall and Winter seasons. Now is the time to reflect on your accomplishments of the most recent growing season.
Allow the shift in longer nights and shorter days to assist you in reflecting on what have you accomplished, or not, during this recent season.
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Harvest Moon, September 7
During this time of the Harvest Moon, the larger and underground vegetables (squash, gourds, potatoes, etc.) become ripe for harvesting and preserving for the winter and spring months ahead. Now too is the time to harvest the big projects that you’ve been cultivating throughout the year.
Are your high-energy activities ripe for harvesting?
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Ripe Barries Moon, August 9
This Ripe Berries Moon is a time of beginning the harvesting of fruits and vegetables that have been growing since the spring.
What has grown to fruition that you can to begin to harvest ?
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Strong Sun Moon, July 11
With the strong sun of the summer days, nature goes into overdrive and begins its burst of strong growth to produce its crop before the fall harvest time. Use this strong sun to make the kinds of progress on tasks you’ve wanted to do for a while now.
The energies of the sun are available to work with you.
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Corn Planting Moon, June 11
You’ve planted seeds during the winter and spring. Now is the time to decide which are weeds and which are plants worth cultivating. It’s also time to decide if you need to cull back some of the small seedlings so that you can focus on certain projects. Use the Corn Planting Moon to reflect on the seeds you’ve planted that are growing.
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Frogs Return Moon, May 13
Why frogs, you might ask?
In many indigenous cultures, people used the activities, cycles, animal behavior, etc. in nature throughout each season to provide a model or metaphor for what they needed to learn at that time. At this time of year, the frogs return from their hibernation. Furthermore, frogs can teach us a lot about transformation and transcendence.
That’s quite a bit for a frog.
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Budding Trees Moon, April 13
The Budding Trees Moon is a time of catalyzing the shift of energies from the Winter resting and rejuvenation to the Spring budding and blooming. Now is a good time to inventory any detrimental patterns in your life, so that you can use energies of Nature to help change them.
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Big Winds Moon, March 14
Now is the time to create your action plan for the Spring season based on your New Year’s Resolutions. How do you want these energies to bloom? What fruit will they bear in the fall?.
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Rest & Cleansing Moon, February 13
Last issue we began a visualization exercise to help yourself ground your energies into the Earth. With this issue, we expand on that exercise to help you use the energies of this moon time to rest and cleanse yourself.
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Earth Renewal Moon, January 14
Everywhere you turn now, you hear about making New Year’s Resolutions. While the New Year offers an opportunity to reconsider your life and how you might want to lead it differently, don’t forget to use the energies of the Earth to assist you in any changes you want to make in this New Year.
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