Teach Your Daughters to Love the Moon is a mother’s manifesto about how to raise daughters who burn, flow, hunt, sow, bare, howl, and shine. Now more than ever, we need to raise strong women who are in touch with nature and themselves. Teach your daughters to burn. Teach them to fly their flaming chariots… Continue reading Teach Your Daughters to Love the Moon
The Writer’s Moon is a journal and planner for writers that helps you sync your writing practice to the phases of the moon. It’s a 30-day workbook for deepening your writing practice and getting more intentional and productive with your work by using the energy the moon has on offer. In this author interview, the… Continue reading The Writer’s Moon: Author Interview with Alicia Manson
It’s the golden hour, and all the plants are glowing as I make my way up the hill. The sky is shocking, pink and blue and purple, as if suddenly bruising from its collision with the earth. I want to reach up and comfort its throbbing beauty. The turning leaves soak up the last bits… Continue reading Full Pink Moon
We bathed in amber last night getting stuck with mosquitoes under an orange sheen which made things not illuminated, but notdark. So, surrounded by a personal 11 pm we sat under a lampshade of notdark and tried to get our feelings out. Even sitting back to back, empty bookends, we held orange light between us… Continue reading Moon on a Lamppost (Florida. Spring 2002.)
It’s a strange sort of orbit the moon takes around the earth, mesmerized by the amount of light the planet can reflect, the way it shifts and writhes and is still learning to be comfortable in its skin, while the moon is only black rock, the same trapped-oxygen rock for three and a half billion… Continue reading It’s Easier to Date Moon Rocks (Florida. May 2004.)
The spring equinox, also known as Ostara, is a special time of year when the day and night are in equal balance. You can use these rituals and writing prompts to celebrate Ostara and inspire your Spring. The energy of this time can help you strengthen your writing practice, develop your creativity, and plant the… Continue reading Rituals and Writing Prompts to Celebrate Ostara and Inspire Your Spring
Can you feel it in the air? It’s the depths of winter, but there’s something stirring. Even as the snow is still coming down, the end of winter is in sight. Even here in Alaska, the birds have started singing. It’s Imbolc! Imbolc is the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox,… Continue reading 28 Creative Writing Prompts to Celebrate Imbolc and Inspire Your February
I have been thinking a lot about how to link my writing practice more closely to the cycles of the seasons, moons, and stars. There is a part of me that feels some dread every time Mercury retrograde approaches, and because of Mercury’s connection with words, this dread is especially acute when it comes to… Continue reading How to Make the Most of Mercury Retrograde For Writers
It’s a new moon today. A time for listening within. A time for setting intentions. It has been making me think a lot about my whys. Why do NaNoWriMo? Why write? What exactly am I hoping to accomplish? As the days get shorter and my energy wanes, it seems a herculean task to expect myself… Continue reading Why do NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo Day 4
The river slithered out of the mountains with such speed that it seemed the forest must have been on fire. This should have been our first clue, but we pressed on, past rice paddies and the Death Railway, past water monitors and banana trees, past lotus fields and check points. We curved around roads unable… Continue reading Kanchanaburi