First Moon of Winter 2022

By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, hope you are all doing well. The Winter Solstice starts our journey off for the last of the four seasons on December 21st and I consider the Winter Solstice magical energy to last until the first quarter moon on January 1, 2023. Our first (of three) New Moons of Winter […]

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The Celebration of Winter’s Death

By Phoenix the Elder – The three moons of Winter each year, has many meanings in its cultural celebrations, in food traditions and gatherings. It also has its songs, poetry and folklore equally to the harshness of winter and the symbol of death. Winter is no stranger to death, as a complex myth and symbol, […]

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The Slavic Evergreen Cult

By Phoenix the Elder – I love trees as many people do, and specifically born to love evergreens, such as the large pine, wild cedar, semi-desert juniper and fir, and even the Sequoyah which seem like a half tree and half evergreen, which I never saw in person until I was much older. In the […]

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Goddess of Winter

By Phoenix the Elder – Its that time of year again to honor the Goddess of Winter – Marzanna, an archaic night goddess and primal connection to her shamanistic and animistic mysteries of the past, present and future. These pre-religious rites are still done in very simple ways today and I hope you join us again […]

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First New Moon of Winter 2017

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Holiday Blessings dreamers, soul swimmers and artists, welcome to the First New Moon of Winter, on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 @ 10:30 pm PDT, followed by the Winter Solstice, Thursday, Dec. 21st. The moon work that I share is based on living and walking the 13 Moons (no time) of the seasonal year with nature’s cycles, just […]

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Nightly Whispers of the Winter’s Soul

It so easy to teach and determine the realms of ghosts, of the night and of souls, when we ourselves have not touched any depth of our own ghosts, our own souls and our night, that travels those eternal shores. I arrived at the waves between illusion and reality, between light and dark and the dark side of the light where I […]

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2nd Moon of Winter

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain ~ The second moon of Winter enters our sky Jan 9 – Feb. 7, 2016 and we welcome her to dine at our table. Midwinter moons are dressed with  a whisper as silence and snow become one. Breathe out her song of thankful prayer to your Ancestors this moon and […]

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The Midnight Sun: A Generous Invitation to the Marriage of the Soul and the North Winds. Traditions of Kolyadki & Auseklis

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming (and other contributors); Edited by Sarah Bernstein – The Midnight Sun is a very ancient tradition of the Moon Cultures. The earlier shamanistic cultures and the dreamers before them carried the symbolism of all things today. For the Moon lights our way through each season in all her images […]

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