First Moon of Summer 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, we have finally arrived at our 1st Moon of Summer starting June 17/18, 2023. The Summer Solstice is Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The Full Moon is Monday, July 3rd, 2023. Hopefully, you start the summer moons off with a little fun, maybe a vacation or a family gathering. It’s […]
Second Moon of Winter 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings dreamers, healers, artists, soul, and moon lovers! Our Second Moon of Winter begins on January 2, 2022, and the full moon will be on January 17th. This is our next 12 degree New Moon in a series of five auspicious new moons. We enter the Element of Earth and […]
Pandemic Poetry
Poem by Phoenix the Elder – I remember three months ago, when everything was life as usual. A friend would visit or I would hug my family or I would wonder how I would pay my rent. I lived each day not knowing what tomorrow would bring (for so many years). That tomorrow has finally […]
Third Moon of Winter 2019
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Greetings Moon Lovers, Artists, Dreamers and Empaths, we finally made it to the last Moon of Winter, the last of our Seasonal year. It begins Monday, February 4th 2019 as we now prepare for a transformation of seasons, the death of winter and the rebirth of spring. Winter begins to fade, […]
Welcome…
Elder Mountain Dreaming is now under Construction over the next six months. I offer right now only my ancient lunar work-study by Subscription; I am also adding (eventually) an ongoing Podcast that is five wise women, a multi-generational podcast (three millennial women, a genxer (me) and a baby boomer) to speak in a roundtable about […]
Blue Door Folklore and Mythology
Compilation and Writing by Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I posted this article because I had a dream about a blue door and needed to find out its mythology and folklore. Today, three years later (after this original article) I was emailing a friend and the painting of the goat shadow man on the left […]
Earth Soil Painting
Water as a Healing Element
The Healing Waters and it’s uses for Self, Spaces, Cleansing and Intentions by Phoenix of Elder Mountain – As artists, healers, dreamers, magicians, pagans, witches, druids and moon children, we deserve a spiritually clear and clean space. In our busy lives, many do mind-body practices like yoga or meditation to balance, but there is something […]
Folk Art Nettle Fiber
Nettle, Hemp, Flex and Willow Fibers Nettle – In spring some stalks of grasses and nettle are broken by the wind or too dry in summer, some places have to exfoliate the top layers of the cortex, which contains the fiber. Their flexibility and strength is long appreciated by the birds for example, the crossbill […]
Dreamers
Artists: Peter Engelhardt (left) and detail of unknown Slavic artist. Save Save