Some thoughts on the turning wheel of the year

Posted in Musing

For the Autumn Equinox, and the turning foliage 2012:

Stillness within the dance Silence within the song

The balanced unbalance Between Entropy and Chaos

The Green and Burning Tree

 

Winter Solstice 2012

Blessings of the holly and the oak, the wren and the robin

the night and the day the dark and the light

the winter and the summer, The turning of the wheel,

the longest night, the shortest day.

Yet the winter kings hoary grasp has yet to close.

Blessings of the winter yet to fall

 

Floods of Winter 2013 -2014

rain constant falling

ancestral memories

our heritage

 

Winter Solstice 2013

The longest night, the shortest day; the Winter Solstice.  The Winter kings grip at its strongest, the return of the light begins, though the heaviest of the winter yet to come.  A time of family, of quiet, of stillness as we await the coming heart of winter rolling into the spring as the wheel turns.  Blessings of the darkness, of the winds, the frosts, the rain and snow and of the mists; blessings of the stillness and the quiet; blessings of the returning light.  May you have a quiet, restful Yule.

 

Imbolc 2014

in the belly spring begins

Imbolc

blessed water from the well

 

A cold February morning 2014

the Winter King’s icy touch

has not cleansed

his breath scours the Land

 

First weekend of Spring 2014

Winter's frost covers the land

Swans posture

Spring buds display the rising sap

 

Autumn Equinox 2014

Tree foliage appears

Crimson bruise against the fading night

Autumnal dawn

 

Samhain 2014

Sun sets as Samhain dawns

Trick or treat is called

Who honours the ancestors?

 

Winter Solstice 2014

Longest night,

Shortest day;

the Oak King reborn;

Though the Holly still carries thorns

 

Winter Solstice 2015

The turning wheel slows

Stillness of the longest night

Light reborn, the wheel begins to turn

 

Winter Solstice 2016

The wheel pauses

In stillness and silence - potential

The wheel moves

 

Winter Solstice 2017

The turning wheel slows into the rising dark, pauses and turns again accelerating slowly from falling dark into the growing light.  Blessings of the dark that holds us and of the promise of light reborn at Winter Solstice.

 

Winter solstice 2018

Deepest dark dawns

Solstice stillness

Wellspring of light glimpsed

 

Spring equinox 2019

Shadow in light

Stillness in movement

Summer in winter

Honour to the Winter behind and before us, Honour to the arriving Spring, honour to the Summer before and behind us. Blessings of the Spring Equinox

 

Lammas 2019

Honour to the toil of the year

to the challenge’s past

to the harvest arrived.

Lammas blessings all

 

Beltane 2020

Maythorn in blossom

sun father joins earth mother

fertile spring now come

 

Lughnasadh 2020

Lughnasadh blessings

celebration of first fruits

harvest enjoyment

 

Kalend Gwav 2020

Beyond the thinning veil

Ancestors waiting

Place laid at the table

 

Winter Solstice 2020

Movement stills in the dark

Winter solstice dawns

Potential manifest

 

Imbolc 2021

Snowdrops emerging

Green grass rising through white frost

Spring begins to stir

 

Summer Solstice 2021

Sol stills its turning

Reflection of journeys growth

Calm of the Solstice

 

Winter Solstice 2021

Night calls from the dark

Across the Land stillness falls

Light’s return begins