Beautiful summer, Sunday morning here in the valley… I hope it’s still morning by the time I get this post done and uploaded! I don’t have too much on the board for today so dial-up can take its sweet time, lol… I’m easy. Bright candle is burning for Amber Morning Rain and her boys. Love you, sweet and holding your hand (((hug))). It’s going to be a great day!

Let’s see… garden harvest is coming along nicely… tomatoes are finally starting to ripen. We’d had some very cool and overcast weather for August so the process seems to be taking forever. But we’re back to somewhat normal temps and sunshine (it’s actually the temps that ripen them) and I’m prepared to handle all the plants coming to bear at once, lol. Isn’t that always the way? I also have several pumpkins showing more orange than green and my melons look divine! HA! Sorry… couldn’t resist :P

The days are becoming noticeably shorter. That bums me out a bit… I’m not ready to give them back. C’est la vie…

I’ve been accepted for the November term at Empire State SUNY. I was desperately hoping to get in for September but it is not to be. November works… New Year, fresh turn of the wheel… new start. Makes sense, right? I’ll use the time till then putting together formal requests for credits by evaluation. I should be able to gather a few for 20+ year career. But the evaluation process is stringent (as it should be) so I’m not getting my hopes up on that. Financial aid is in place and I’m waiting for my mentor to contact me so that I can begin the degree planning process. I already know exactly what I want in that regard so that shouldn’t be too terribly difficult. But still it has to be prepared and set before the approval committee.

I’ve done some MAJOR clutter clear-out this past week… still more to tackle but I’ve taken the weekend off from it. Clutter clearing, for a Virgo, is a huge process. Everything must be closely looked at and inspected. Every item of clothing, every trinket, every bit of paper must be gone over. Piles must be made and moved around, lol… then the piles must find a permanent home somewhere acceptable. I’m not kidding… it’s an f’ing pain in the old junk drawer. I can’t help it though. I’ve tried to just toss willy-nilly but I can’t. It’s a fault. *shrugs* Will just stands back and shakes his head and says “I know, Doll. It’s ok.” But for as much as it’s a pain, I sure do feel better when it’s all said and done and I have to make room for canning, so I’ll keep at it. My goal is to finish by the dark moon (including the file cabinet). It could happen!

Scored a few books for pennies at the used book store (I love that place!). A fab holiday baking collection, ‘Ghostwalk’ by Rebecca Scott and yet another herb use book, lol. I’ve got several on request at the library, as well… ‘The Monster of Florence’ and ‘Charmed Circle’, which is the next in the series by Delores Riccio. Moonsong recommended them to me. I’ve never been one for pagan fiction but I really do like them. I’m a sucker for a mystery!

Hmm… what else... Girls are a pain; boys are perfect, par usual. Finances aren’t any worse. No better, lol… but no worse.

I’m really looking forward to the harvest at Em’s!!! I’ve already started planning (weeks ago, actually) and I’m less anxious about leading ritual than I thought I would be. I can’t wait! Did I say that already? Who's all coming anyway? I hope enough to make a circle :P I’m also trying to sort out how I can make it to Lisa’s for Samhain. Where there’s a will there’s a way… that’s my take on it, ha! Again, it could happen… I wish it to happen, anyway.

Wishing everyone a wonderful week full of all the things that make your heart sing!

Blessings and love… xxx ooo

Two full nights of resting in meditation under my mother moon fills me... pushing out the clutter of my mind and my house. I can hear my inner voice once again. My path is true and correct. I feel it. Last eve, as I lay in bed, surrounded by restoritive moonlight I remembered.

Mine is a charmed lifetime. Guided by an intuition bestowed... I am blessed.

A most dear moon sister had her first experience with drawing down the moon this weekend. It's comforting to know that as she was drawing luna into her, I was being filled as well. Congratulations, my dear sister... may you know that peace and wisdom in all your lives, both long and short.

Full moon's most bountiful and rich blessings are wished for all my moon siblings... xxx ooo

I don’t think I’ve ever before lamented the passing of summer as profoundly as I do this year. Maybe I’ve just always covered it with my excitement over the coming autumn. But I’m not excited.

I am weary…

I’m weary of tedious boredom and bleeding (full moon to full moon).

I’m weary of the lack of material comforts, however small and un-needed.

I’m weary of the knot in my stomach when we compile a grocery list or try to buy the gas to get the girls to work and back… the throbbing in my head when find myself in the middle of the month, yet again, with the rent unpaid.

I am weary of the seemingly bottomless feeling of sadness over the loss of friendship.

I am weary of constant chattering.

I’m weary of the unmanageable clutter that comes from too many in too small a space.

Today… for weeks, really… the list has been endless.

Yet all the while this weariness wears on my heart and mind I am ever aware and thankful for what I do have. That list is, most assuredly, longer. So I’m left with a feeling much like I’m a whining, spoiled child.

I am not.

Today I will, once again, clear this home of negative, hopeless and useless energies. I will dust and place fresh flowers on the mantle. I will smile… speaking softly and with kindness although I would prefer not to speak at all. I will put my hands in the soil. I will travel to the circle of cedars and cry. I will do my daily work with intent and purpose.

Tonight I will lay my troubles, the best I can, with my dear mother moon… as I have so many times before. I know with certainty that the only constant is change and this too shall pass. I’m just weary. I don't feel my energies are right to join in the CS spellwork. I'm sorry, dear friends.

I can only draw her into me and rest.

Full moon blessings and love… xxx ooo

The News is Now Public.com requested to use my honey bee photo in a story! How flattering...

http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/honeybee-deaths-reaching-crisis-point

Sad state of affairs in the honey bee world though :( Breaks my heart...

Please, please, please support your local bee keepers and buy local honey.

http://thebeetree.org/