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Moon Chasing
Greetings from Portugal! The intrepid little Valentine team is out adventuring, chasing the moon, megalithic alignments, and a total solar eclipse! We just…
Full moon on Beltane
Greetings to one and all this fine May Day, We send emails out every "cross-quarter" date--that is, the midway point between solstices and equinoxes. The…
Imbolc 2026
Happy Imbolc, It's a full moon and a cold night. Davd, Zen and I are sleeping out under the clear, bright sky, bundled in baby bunting and thick winter…
Samhain 2025
Happy Feast of Apples, Greetings everyone. With a chill in the air, and Comet Lemmon in the night sky, we welcome in the new season. Davd, Zen and I have been…
Cornwall
Zenith is a world traveler! It's not many people who can say they've lived abroad for about a quarter of their lives, but Zen can claim just that. We had the…
Parowan Gap
May Day greetings to you and yours! Since we last emailed, Davd and I have welcomed a little munchkin into our lives. We now orbit around this tiny human, and…
Axis Mundi trailer
Greetings one and all! The faint stirrings of spring are beginning; the beginning of a new season of life, and I feel it more intensely and literally than ever…
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Happy November! I'm writing this update as Davd and I are driving home from an excursion to New Mexico and Colorado chasing Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and the…
Scottish Stone Circles
Happy Lugnasadh, the cross-quarter date between summer solstice and autumnal equinox. Davd and I got back a few weeks ago from a month-long trip to Scotland…
Beltane 2024
Warm Beltane greetings to the lot of you! We hope you're enjoying the season of flowers and new growth. As I reflect back on the past quarter, from early…
Imbolc 2024
Happy Imbolc, friends and family. (Imbolc is the Gaelic name at this cross-quarter date. Other names for this time of year are Groundhog's Day and Candlemas.)…
Samhuinn 2023
This is our second Axis Mundi cross-quarter update. It's been a hard and heavy quarter for us, as we lost a member of our pack, our mighty Lupa. Lupa joined…
Lugnasadh 2023
For many years, Davd and I take a trip each equinox and solstice to document various sites of archaeoastronomical importance. By and large, we travel to the…