April Full Moon
Darkness has descended during this month, and it is now pitch black when I arrive home at night. The mornings have become misty, and on certain days our entire suburb has spent the dawn quietly shrouded in cool fog.It truly feels like autumn now - crisp, cool days, chilly nights, and misted mornings. I have been baking bread, enjoying the taste of a warm loaf spread with melted butter, the soft taste of yeast. This week, we have been brewing dark ale and ginger beer, to be bottled on Samhain, and drunk over the winter.
Samhain is approaching, and I have been reading Alexei Kondratiev's The Apple Branch: A Guide to Celtic Ritual , which has an interesting and inspirational section on Samhain, dividing the purpose of the festival into five parts, and examining each one. We have a long weekend leading up to Samhain, and I plan to do spend a day doing housecare - throughly cleaning the house, rearranging the altar, making a temporary ancestral altar, and planning our Samhain meal. I do enjoy this time of year - not only because the weather in this part of the country is so lovely, but because I love the celebrations surrounding Samhain and Yule. I haven't used my tarot cards or runes in... well, too long, and I look forward to the divinatory spreads I will use on Samhain, looking at the year ahead.
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