Singing Down the Moon 2026 Navigating the Inner Tides of Her Thirteen Lunar Cycles This year the new, 2026 Thirteen Moons Lunar Calendar mysteriously composed itself in Stories… Stories that emerged spontaneously as I charted the movements of Sun, Moon & Planets among the Stars. Now that our new year is nearly upon us (that […]
The Tears of the Moon–do you know them? They are the sacred healing waters flowing from our deepest well of feelings. Of Knowing. Though the eyes may look away, the heart cannot. Joy and grief, loss and respite, pain and orgasm; the Tears of the Moon trace a timeless labyrinth of love. Do you know […]
Orbiting with the twelve (or thirteen, as in 2026) moons of the year is an ancestral, lunar experience of time. Immersed in these lunar months–their waxing and waning and natural storytelling–we may discover deep, meaningful rhythms of life. Not just in our time-keeping, but in body, dreams, and soul. The Moon’s monthly, eight phase cycle […]
Every day things happen in the world that can’t be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they’re mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can’t be explained must be forgotten. The visible […]
Wherein the Gemini Star Twins, Castor the mortal & Pollux the immortal, are imagined as rivals instead of indivisible brothers. The Universe hangs in the balance as they come face to face with the Author of all our stories… The Old Woman sits hunched over her typewriter, spelling. Spelling–the just-so […]
We love our Sister Moon, we feel her rhythm through all the months of our lives. No matter our gender, the waters of our bodies flow in her cycles. She regulates the flow of the Living Waters of all beings on Earth. There are so many ways to attune to her rhythm! Drums & Song, […]
A note, to those of you unfamiliar with the ‘Solar-Lunar’ year. This calendar divides the year into eight seasons rather than four. Following the eight phases of the Moon (New–Crescent–First Quarter—Gibbous—Full—Disseminating—Last Quarter—Balsamic), each 6.5 week season carries the signature meaning of its moon phase association. There’s an illustration below this post. Of all the Crossroads […]
Tolkien wrote of the Eldar Elves in the legends that became part of his posthumous Silmarillion. The Eldar are the wisest, most ancient ancestors of the Elven folks we meet in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. His 20th century fairy tales drew from the oldest storytelling traditions of the western world. A historian […]
Celebrating this new blog/plus site, with deep gratitude to local web designer Cristián Uribe, I thought I’d share some reflections on the fourth and final eclipse of 2024. Whenever you get around to reading this, the annular Solar Eclipse of October 2nd has/had a pattern of fierce beauty about it. A reckoning, with Grace. Is […]
Welcome to Deer Walks in the Dark, meeting online five Sundays, 3 to 5pm MT. Going ‘on retreat’ at home is doubling down on our intention to hold sacred, creative space in the midst of our everyday routines. Can we rise to write in the pre-dawn hours, before morning birdsong? Or, can we close down […]
