Posts in the “NATURALIA” category
FULL SNOW MOON – SORROW AND KINDNESS
by Angeliska on February 25, 2013
The Snow Moon of February is waxing, rising: also know as Storm Moon, Hunger Moon, Bony Moon and Little Famine Moon. In most places, this is the month of the heaviest snows, the harshest weather, and the hardest hunting. This (…)
Autumn Heralds
by Angeliska on September 24, 2012
The Oxblood Lilies are telling me it’s fall now – the autumnal equinox has crossed over us with candles lit, and the scent of burning cinnamon bark. I mean to have a Mabon feast for the Witches’ Thanksgiving, but it (…)
FLORALIA
by Angeliska on May 1, 2012
I am alas, not out a’Maying, drinking rose cordials in meadows or naked night-swimming under the moon. I am not laughing and dancing around a Maypole, or jumping over bonfires, like a fleet-footed fairy over the flames. Instead I am (…)
Peacock Spider Honey
by Angeliska on June 29, 2011
✸ I’ve become very obsessed with Peacock Spiders recently. Certain experiences have been contriving to teach me to look very closely at the tiny wonders in our world: the mysteries of minutiae, the infinitesimally small and complex creatures who might (…)
Sweet Violets
by Angeliska on May 25, 2011
Earlier this month, we took a journey up North, where it is still spring. Little green fiddleheads are just starting to poke their drowsy heads up from the dark earth. The air was sharp and green, the black branches of (…)
