What does the Earth ask?

These are the 'Ole Po (the three moons of reflection, readjustment, and asking questions). After an 'Ole Kukahi like this, the winds are high, strong, and bringing storm our way. We prepare: cook dinner early, batten down anything that might fly and cause harm, and ask the Tall Ones for protection as makani moves through.

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer has a story upon which we could reflection. I discover it today, and share the gift.

Noon La'au kukahi

 Cool, heavily overcast noon at Seawall Park in Langley. Tide low, but beginning to flow back in.

In Town, Langley's Bunnies (no not one 4-eared Bunny ... one sandy with a black nose, the other black with a sandy nose) ... 'ohana!

Kulu Po

Yesterday and through the setting of Mahina this morning was Kulu, the falling away, drousy moon. In the sign of Scorpio that can be intense drip. We spent the Kulu po cleaning and preparing (Uranus squaring Pluto) big news. Things are changing on the home front, falling away. My psyche is being churned, the dreams very Scorpio.

Nature continues to makawalu unfurling further, waking to the time. The energy of the recent lunar eclipse lingers. Jupiter is in the night sky, soon (Wednesday) direct in the part of the sky where Leo reigns, the energy promises exuberance!  Look at what can happen when the timing is right. (click on 'Look)

Rygel takes advantage of the old garden just dug up.

Her attention is short, wandering, she heads for the raspberry patch for cover and more food.

Hands of unfurling Bracken reach for ka la the sun.

Arms of the large cedar that guards the entrance to the tiny homes are still except for a very tiny breeze barely kissing the wind chime.

"What time IS it?" JOTS turns, looks at the big old clock that has no batteries.

On the move, the elf cat, JOTS 

This is good. Easter to some, Passover to others. Kulu Po.

Back on the Waimanalo Homestead, 'ohana gather for a hoppy Easter.

Mahealani and the Lunar Eclipse

The night was cool. We waited for Mahina inside the Subaru parked where we were last month, expecting her to rise slightly more east this month.

But we were mistaken. Momona nui (big and fat) Mahealani rose at the far edge (right-hand facing the moonrise) of the trees.
To see her fullness coming into sight we had to get out from the warmth of the car, walk across the lawn and there!
She was awesome and golden.

The frogs in the wetlands across the highway were singing love songs to each other and Mahealani. We were blessed with the moment of bigness. Our friend Jude told us stories of watching the Lunar Eclipse earlier in the morning (between 4 and 5 am). The moon was red. The sky darkened. A ring of stars surrounded the Hoku/Mahealani Moon. And then, the clouds came because they love her, too.

This was Mahealani last month.

For a perspective of the changing position of moonrise compare the table edge in the lower left-hand corner here with the table pictured in the first shot above.

Mahalo e Mahealani, Mahina momona nui.

The Full Moons of April and a Lunar Eclipse

Tonight is Hoku the full moon of Kaulana Mahina which rises before the sun sets. I've written a post on my other blog The Safety Pin Cafe to fold in a bit of astrology into the mix.

Remember the Chinese Finger Trap? 

Click here to read it and the astrology behind the Chinese Finger Trap game.

Akua Moon

Wheatgrass grows inside the Quonset, looks like miniature forest of red-trunks and green canopy

Bracken fern makawalu through the slots of the vardo deck

The long stems of the Bracken 

Alongside the Quonset Bracken leaflets have spread themselves

Red Alder, the Placeholder/Band-aid Clan of the forest. First to root after a forest is cut. Today they are leafing on all limbs.

The Akua Moon is a time for giving thanks to the Akua. Not a good time for planting or fishing. Depending upon your practice of counting the moon, there can be three or four full moons in the Hawaiian Moon Calendar. Akua is one of the four full moons we count in our practice. If it's clear we may see momona nui the fattening one.

Hua pua ... blossoms every where

Over night the cherry trees have burst into full bloom

The Asian Pear has been blossoming for a while, the leaves have budded too

In the distance the deep pink blossoms of the peach tree begins. The wind was dancing a strong western swing, moving the wind chimes and the things handing on poles, branches and tops of the fences.

The grass is growing

Golden tree pollen spreads every where, too.