What a bumper year it is for fruit! The trees and hedges are bursting with a colourful abundance of either their sweet or sour seed carriers: blackberries, wild plums, haws, sloes, pears, apples, plums and damsons to name just the ones I can see from my garden. Each tree has branches weighed down by […]
What a beautiful full moon it was last night. An elegant, steady presence suspended in the cool night sky, forever watchful and supportive. The full moon encourages us to take time and connect with ourselves, urging us to be mindful of our intentions and desires. The veil to our higher self feels more delicate and […]
This week seems to have been all about communication. This isn’t a skill that comes naturally to me, coming from a line of ancestors who were taught to ‘put up and shut up’ and to uphold the stiff upper lip. This doesn’t bode well for anyone wanting to learn how to express themselves or even […]
The astrologer, Pam Gregory, said last December that the pace of 2025 would be fast and that by June time would feel like it was flying along. Here we are in late July already and I must agree with her; time is flying by very fast indeed. July started with Groundswell, the agricultural show based […]
A storm blew up nearby this week, although not a meteorological one. Sucked into its wake, I felt angry, resentful and indignant at being affected by chaos that wasn’t my making. Consciously or unconsciously some people choose to live within choppy waters; perhaps it is what they have always known and riding the ups and […]
Midsummer, or the summer solstice, is a good time to honour; the long days, when energy of all life seems to be at its peak. Celebrated for centuries, this is a festival of significance for many but has become less observed by the majority of us in more recent times. I decided this year […]
