Celebrating Mid Summer

It is the time of action…we are in but the pubescent stage of our growth cycle. Fire’s raging heat beats upon our skin, and focuses our will. Now is a time of great purpose, as air soars overhead, cooling our brows and bringing us the fresh scent of the summer days. Our goals are manifesting beneath us as mother grows steadily forth under our feet, giving us a soft place to lie during the heat of the day, and a warm place to dance at night. As we strive together to reach our personal and community goals, water quenches our thirst for knowledge and blends our efforts into one.

Remember that this is the longest day of the year. Air is aloft, clarifying our purpose and actions as we strive to maintain our goals. Earth stands beneath us as our crops begin to manifest within the fields of our endeavors. Fire blazes forth as the heat of the sun at its zenith beats down upon us, focusing our will and illuminating spirit's vision within us. Water ripples around us, awakening us to our intuitive connections with each other and our surroundings, and bringing us the wisdom to further our paths in the summer heat.

A Blessed Summer Solstice to You All - May the Longest Day Bring You Clarity, Faith and Hope for the Future Harvest Still to Come.

The beginning of a new home

I am beyond excited - we're finally moving forward with our plans to build a home at Pyrth Annwn. I can't describe to you the joy and overwhelming feeling of anticipation for this. It is something we have dreamed about for a very long time, and it's finally happening.

In fitting with our nature, our home won't be the ordinary box or cabin. As shown in the model, we're using the starplate building system as the basis for our home, our greenhouse and our future storage building.

Starplates create five sided structures, so we've created an arrangement that will work for us, including a two story main building that will house the living room on the bottom floor and our bedroom on the top floor, a two story bath house module for an upstairs and downstairs bathroom plus our telescope viewing area on the roof, a one story kitchen module, one story study/guest room module and a laundry/mud room. In the future, we'll be adding on a dining hall so we'll have room when our large chosen family gathers to celebrate.

We already know where the garden is going, and where we'll be fencing in an outside area for the cats to enjoy, plus a separate area for the puppies to play. We've got the site for the well picked out, and pretty much figured out the layout of the septic system.

We've picked out an area behind the main house that's partially into the cliff face for a canning cellar/mead brewing room. Next up is figuring out where the chickens and goats are going to go once we get them. Our friend Megan has us hooked on goat milk and cheese, so Cabrito is definitely going to be on the menu, and my friend James has me hooked on fresh eggs, hence the chickens. And yes, we will have many guineas to control the tick population. Cenau will have his work cut out for him keeping the coyotes and foxes at bay.

The best part about all of this - we're doing it ourselves. The magick that will infuse this act of creation will make this home a very sacred place indeed - and anchor my gypsy feet once and for all firmly in the ground.

Continuing the Journey (or how I try to keep ducking the Cosmic 2 x 4)

Ah, the Cosmic 2 x 4 - that gentle hand of the Universe, guiding us along our life lesson path...why as humans do we insist on ignoring the gentle prods and pokes and instead only pay attention when we get smacked on the back of the head? You'd think paying attention to all that poking and prodding would start to look good after a while...

but alas, we are only human aren't we?

No matter how far we think we've come, or how much we feel we've learned, there is always another lesson just waiting around the bend for us.

Mine this week is the lesson of release. And I really thought I had this one down too, but - whack! - apparently not.

And so, Aleve in hand, I find myself once again making meditation time for myself each day so that I can reflect on what I've been missing, or what it is that I refuse to release, and hope I get it right this time.

'Cause even for an Aries, we can only take so many hits to the head.