Muku nei

The New Moon in the House of the Bull (Taurus) finds big growth on the la'au kama'aina (the local plant beings). New Moon is a good time to set your intention for the coming kaulana ... moon cycle. With all that "Bull" there's plenty of support for whatever you set your heart, and soul on. Big growth!

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Bracken ferns are now five feet tall

The porch is canopied with the full fronds of bracken

The wild huckleberry bushes are at least six feet high. These were two to three feet tall when we first pulled our vardo into the woods (2010)

Alders are in full leaf outside the vardo and Quonset. 

My family and I are setting our intention to "HO'OMOKU, to create a place for a coral reef that grows into an island." Our vision: to gather lunar practitioners, and islanders where we live, beginning July 10, 2015 and begin in a small way until we gain steadily and are firmly established ..."

Prepared and ready to be part of 'AIMALAMA: Pacific Peoples' Lunar Conference on Climate Change, in September, 2015.

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.