Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The Harvest Moon west dark yesterday at 8:25am my time. Today, begins the 13th and final moon in my annual round, the Hunter's Moon. Many folks seem to think this moon is named for the hunting season. This is neither temporally nor mythically correct. It is not yet hunting season, if by hunt you mean… Continue reading The Daily: 22 October 2025
Today is Indigenous Peoples's Day in my part of the world. It is actually a holiday in my office, so I'm in the kitchen rather than at my desk. For me, today is Apple Day... making apple-tomato chutney, applesauce, apple butter and probably some apple bread... because I went to Burtt's yesterday. But I'm not… Continue reading The Daily: 13 October 2025
As you can see, I've pulled this out of the compost heap and brushed it off. Mostly as a way to force me to write poetry. Because I have become lax on that... and that makes me sad... I also restarted the AllPoetry Wednesday Word contest. But this time I'm keeping the rewards to the… Continue reading The Daily: 8 October 2025
The Harvest Moon is full today at 11:47pm my time. Moonrise is at 5:55 tonight, preceding fullness by less than six hours and sunset by about twenty minutes, eliminating the time of darkness between sunlight and moonlight. This is the Harvest Moon because it is closest to the autumn equinox, and geometry at this time… Continue reading The Daily: 6 October 2025
October 4th is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi. You might know him as the irreverent but apt moniker, St Francis of the Birdbath, because that is where many of us encounter him. Bare-headed with the monk's tonsure, dressed in rough robes and coarse rope belting, he stands with one palm out, feeding… Continue reading The Daily: 4 October 2024
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and Near East has a great number of interesting mythological beings. Some are related to old gods and tutelary spirits. Some are fairly accurate illustrations of the anxieties of humankind — or maybe mankind, since women didn't have much of a voice. Some are just ludicrous. One of my… Continue reading The Daily: 29 September 2025
I read quite a lot of folklore, mostly tied to the ritual year in temperate climates, mostly those regions where I understand the languages and cultures, mostly places I have lived or have personally known through family and friends. So, mostly those places influenced or reshaped (as in my own country) by EuroWestern colonial culture.… Continue reading The Daily: 28 September 2025
The sun passed the ecliptic on Monday. That marked the autumnal equinox, the day the sun passes that imaginary equator in the sky in its annual trek through the seasons. By now, those of you who tolerate my blathering know that this event does not mark the true equinox since that day of equal length… Continue reading The Daily: 25 September 25
The Nutting Moon went dark at 3:54pm yesterday, September 21. The Harvest Moon is new today. Today, Mabon, also ushers in the autumnal equinox at 2:19pm in my part of the world. With the skies aligned as they are, this is the season of Harvest Home. It's the most wonderful time of the year! The… Continue reading The Daily: 22 September 2025
The Nutting Moon goes dark today. Tomorrow, the Harvest Moon is new. It is also the autumn equinox. So it's a full week of festivity. Today, I am putting away the garden so that next week I can celebrate Harvest Home, my Thanksgiving, on the weekend closest to Michaelmas. So I don't have much time… Continue reading The Daily: 21 September 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 