“Rotating Moon from LRO”
“No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because the Earth's moon is tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side. Given modern digital technology, however, combined with many detailed images returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has now been composed.”
Read More...Disconnect
I don't suppose it's really important in the overall scheme of things, but I find it unnerving.
Read More...NeoNotes — the middle
If the winter solstice is the middle of winter and the summer solstice is the middle of summer, the vernal equinox is the middle of spring and the autumnal equinox is the middle of fall.
Read More...Giving away your power
❝If you give your passion to them, then they win. You'll always be reacting and you'll always be unhappy.❞Read More...
30 minutes
I saw a horse "broke" once. It was time consuming. It was brutal. That was enough to convince me it was wrong.
Read More...NeoNotes — Shift happens
Blue Moon Eclipse
Slice it
When pagans jump up to recite approved scripts to this week's Officially Designated Outrage, they make paganism look silly.
Read More...“Eclipse Phases over Brasstown Bald, Georgia”
Rainy and windy
Flow into you
❝Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.❞
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Think of nature
❝I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.❞
— George Washington Carver
Marvel at the real Milky Way
❝Get someone out of the light pollution of major cities and let them marvel at the real Milky Way and the Moon. Let them lie out under the stars and feel the Earth move under them.
But then I am just a tiny bit biased.❞
— NeoWayland
Bilagáana
❝I’m one of the few bilagáana born on the Res, it’s shaped my outlook. I’m what happens when Louisiana farming stock takes root in the Four Corners region. The desert and the the sky here call to me. I’m a child of sand and wind.❞— NeoWayland, Dusting of Snow
Pagan anti-environmentalist
❝Environmentalism is a political movement. It’s about controlling other people to achieve utopia. It’s about closing yourself off from the possibilities.
I don’t want to be limited by the word “environmentalism” anymore. I don’t think ecology is about saving the Earth. I think it’s about understanding how things fit and the tradeoffs we make. It’s about looking at where we were, where we are, and where we could go.❞
— NeoWayland
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Economy above ecology
❝You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.❞
— David Suzuki
Everything
❝The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.❞
— Barry Commoner
Plant-birthday
“Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.”— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
NeoNotes — Ecology vs environmentalism
Nothing supernatural exists
If something changes the universe, it can be measured. If it can be measured, it can be analyzed. If it can be analyzed, experiments can be performed.
Read More...Solstice snow
I'm winter-born, so a good snow always touches my soul in a quiet joyful way. I could watch it for hours. I did watch it for hours.
Read More...Just plain fun
Hidden but still grand
Neighborhood pagan
Naturally yours
No significance
Interconnections
Just because we humans don’t like a species doesn’t mean it’s not absolutely essential.
Read More...Act of Change
According to popular culture, magick is about breaking the rules and molding reality.
Nope.
Read More...Taproot: Through the Woods

The Woods. Summer weekends meant the family would escape the Phoenix heat. In the fall Dad insisted we come to watch the aspen turn. In the winter we would come to play in the snow. After the stepsibs moved away and it was just teenage me with the folks, we'd still come to enjoy the woods. I will always be the desert guy who Visits The Woods.
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Earth centered
More and more I think I was wise to separate my pagan blogging from my political blogging.
Read More...Dusting of Snow
This is the world

I am a sensualist. I’m telling you this because all too often pagans forget we’re supposed to bridge worlds.
Read More...Unusual Unkindness
Usually when ravens group together, it’s up on fences or power lines or rooftops
Read More...Gaia
“But you’re so rational!”
See the Robot
The Authority Problem
I'm willing to start at mutual respect. Not everyone is. That creates a problem.
Read More...Perverted
Last night… I dreamt I walked as a bear
Something I did not know
Just like clockwork
It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.