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.

Mahina Ho'onui (the fattening moon phases)

Last night we did our part to soften the effects of consumption, on the Full Moon. Hoku, not Mahealani if you count the moon 'at her fullest' to be the phase that rises after the sun sets. Last night Mahina rose before Ka La. We turned out the lights, shut down the computer, crawled into the sack, and said 'Good Night Moon' before she rose. Tonight she will rise some time after Ka La has gone over the horizon. We had a good, long sleep (much needed) and had some amazing BIG dreams!

If you count different, it's all good. Your practice is your practice.

Today and yesterday I notice the fullness and the growing ... (click on the image for a larger view)

The Brackens are fully present

Lana lana on the vardo window trim

Lana lana's web

Lana lana's keiki are warming up, and moving with all eight legs in action

This is what the Bracken fern were doing on an ole moon in March

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.

'Ole kukahi (yesterday)

 When I was a girl growing up next to Yurie (Aunty Lily) Buffins, she would tell me, "God's taking his sheep home," when the clouds looked like this. Yesterday's 'ole kulua sky was an Aunty Lily sky.

Look closely and you can see the long(er) and snaking growth of the Bracken ferns. They are almost knee high now. Click here to see where they were last 'ole cycle. 

The salmon berry blossoms get bigger.