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 […]
First Moon of Summer 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Dear Dreamers, we begin our summer moons in the light of the summer solstice week! The First Moon of Summer begins Tuesday, the 28th of June (at 7° Cancer). We enter the Element of Water, which is home to our very personal emotional life, our physical home, ancestral home, mother […]
Slavic Midsummer – The Forest Goddess Dziewanna and the Golden Magical Fern Flower
The Slavic and Balkan Fern Flower Mystery – Centuries ago, the lands west of the Vistula were covered with impassable forests and forests. It took days to travel from one settlement to another, and the darkness of the forest was swarming with a variety of forest game. Hundreds of birds and various forest trinkets inhabited […]
First Moon of Summer 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, we’ve finally finished our three moons of Spring with more insight and some joyfulness (I hope). Time goes so fast! We now stand at the doorsteps of our First Moon of Summer on Thursday, June 10, 2021 which includes a Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse. The Summer Solstice […]
Slavic Summer Rituals – A Rusalki Summer Solstice
By Phoenix the Elder – Learning to live by the Moon cycles, all thirteen of them, we embrace that the year is divided into four seasonal moons and each of the four seasons have rituals that are attached to them. In Slavic traditions there are the remains of pagan traditions that are celebrated and carry […]
Signs, Synchronicity and Nature’s Guidance
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming – Life will always send us signs and synchronistic events in our life if we pay close enough attention. For those who work with divination, working with lunar intention each new and full moon (working on your stuff) is an internal process and the signs become even stronger, clearer and more […]
First Moon of Summer 2019
By Phoenix the Elder – Summer has officially started and I am happy you are here with us for another moon cycle! We start our first Summer Moon on Monday June 3, 2019 in Gemini (at 12°). Followed by a Sagittarius Full Moon on June 17, 2019 (at 25°). The Summer Solstice is Thursday June 21st. For […]
Slavic Moons and Months
By Phoenix the Elder – My dedication in life as a Dreamer was to be free, to be healthy, to pay my real karmic debt and live to tell about it. As an elder now, I begin to receive my past experiences with hindsight that flows into wisdom, through expressions of creativity. The path we […]
Healing & the 13 Moons of Nature’s Seasons
By Phoenix the Elder – This is my personal capsulized short share of how I completed my fated life to return the 13 moons as a real seasonal calendar, living in all thirteen moons each month. Yes there is a 13th moon that you can experience with the right training of cycles. The original prehistory lunar […]
Archaic Pre-Pagan Goddesses: Dziewanna and Marzanna
By Phoenix the Elder – Dziewanna is the Slavic Summer Solstice Goddess and Mother Earth herself. She is closely related to Virgo and Demeter. Dziewanna (pronounced gee-vanna), has filled many roles in our rich culture and in later pagan times she is the daughter of Perun (the lightning God) and Dodola (a fertile Moist Goddess […]