Summer Folk Ritual
By Phoenix the Elder – Summer Solstice is soon upon us and we move into different rituals in the Season of Fire (spring and summer) than we do in the Season of Night (autumn and winter). Women and their hair have a lifelong relationship throughout their life, the stages of youth or maiden, woman or […]
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 […]