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I’ve been noticing a change in the air lately.  Today also marks the Lunar New Year, the beginning of the Year of the Horse. I still catch myself thinking Chúc Mừng Năm Mới, the greeting I learned when I lived in Vietnam working as an English teacher. It was the biggest celebration of the year and the whole country seemed to pause at once. Streets emptied, families gathered, and for a few days life moved to a different rhythm.  I even once dressed as the moon for a school cel

This season we begin the with the Snow Moon as it begins its cycle across our skies. Named in the deep winter months because February’s typically cold, snowy weather in North America earned its full moon the name Snow Moon. Storm Moon and Hunger Moon are other traditional names that speak to weather and hunger’s presence in the land at this time. Listening to the Land 🌾   At the Listening to the Land day in Oxford on January 7th, I was honoured to meet so many people whose d

The last threshold of the year The Wolf New Moon begins it's cycle and arrives in the deep of winter, when the land has drawn inward and the year itself feels close to its ending. This is the final New Moon of the year, and with it comes a threshold moment. Not an ending exactly, and not yet a beginning, but the narrow place in between. Traditionally, the Wolf Moon is associated with the hardest weeks of winter, when wolves were heard howling beyond the edges of human settlem