Cailleach is the Celtic Crone. Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog. And believe it or not, they are related to each other.
Summer Above, Winter Below, and Confusion All Around
“It is the June Solstice wherever you go today,” I wrote last week. In the Northern Hemisphere we observe the Summer Solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is observed. Like everything humans do, there is some disagreement about what this means, except that old Sol aligns with the Tropic of Cancer. I […]
Plotting and Scheming Out of the Darkness
I cannot seem to finish the posts I am writing. I lose interest with tasks if I do not complete them in one pass through. It is not exactly disinterest which I associate with depression. It is sort of a numbness. Rainy and cloudy days in Tucson, Winter’s arrival, might explain my blah-ness. Reacting to […]
Punxsutawney Phil, Ewe's Milk, and St. Brighid
Happy winter mid-point to spring! Whether you call it Groundhog Day, Candelmas, Imbolc, or St. Brighid’s Day, the point in the annual cycle of days and seasons where we are in this current year has been marked in the Northern Hemisphere for tens of hundreds of years. I am a veritable fountain of information on […]