October 2007

Monday 1st to Thursday 11th:

Waning Moon / Third & Fourth Quarters

Quarter Moon: Wednesday 3rd

Dark Moon: Thursday 11th

In the third quarter of October the Moon does not enter a fertile sign, so it is best to treat this as you would the time of the Fourth Quarter. This is a time of low vitality, a good time for both humans and plants to take a rest. If you must get out into your garden, do maintenance, deadhead plants, turn sod and kill weeds. During this time you'll experience void-of-course moons all day on Thursday 4th until the morning of Friday 5th, and for a brief time in the early evening of Sunday 7th.

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Friday 12th to Friday 19th:

Waxing Moon / First Quarter

New Moon: Saturday 13th

Quarter Moon: Friday 19th

Although Friday 12th is a good time for planting leafy annuals, there is a void-of-course moon most of the day until just after 4 pm when the moon moves into Scorpio. From now until dawn on Monday 15th, ie all day Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, is an excellent time to plant or propogate leafy annuals, where you want to harvest the foliage. A second opportunity occurs from 5 pm on Wednesday 17th to dawn on Friday 19th, when the Moon is in Capricorn.

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Saturday 20th to Friday 26th:

Waxing Moon / Second Quarter

Wednesday 24th: Sun moves into Scorpio at 5.15 pm

Full Moon: Friday 26th

This second quarter of the lunar month gives you an excellent time to plant fruiting annuals, when the Moon moves into fertile Pisces at 9 am on Monday 22nd, stays all day on Tuesday 23rd, leaving Pisces just before noon on Wednesday 24th. Fruiting annuals are those plants where you want to harvest the seed or seed-bearing organ of the plant.

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Saturday 27th to Wednesday 31st:

Waxing Moon / Third Quarter

For most of Saturday 27th and most of the morning of Sunday 28th, the moon is in Taurus which gives you a good time to plant perennials and root crops, where you want to harvest the plant below ground. An even better time occurs from just before noon on Tuesday 30th, right through Wednesday 31st, and into Thursday 1st up until just before 4 pm, when the Moon is in watery, fertile Cancer.

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September 2007

Saturday 1st to Monday 3rd:

Waning Moon / Third Quarter

Although this is the first week of the western calendar for September, it actually is the third quarter of the lunar cycle. From 3.36 pm on Saturday 1st to 5.30 pm on Monday 3rd when the Moon is in Taurus is an excellent time to plant root crops, where you want the plant vitality to be below ground, or perennials such as trees, shrubs, berries and vines. In September in the tropics root crops could include sweet potatoes, radish, ginger, etc.

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Tuesday 4th to Wednesday 12th:

Waning Moon / Fourth Quarter

This is the week of the Dark Moon so it is a time of low vitality, a good time for both humans and plants to take a rest. If you must get out into your garden, do maintenance, deadhead plants, turn sod and kill weeds. During this time you'll experience void-of-course moons all day on Friday 7th until 3 am on Saturday 8th, from midnight until just after 11am on Monday 10th, and for a brief time in the evening on Wednesday 12th, just before the moon moves into Libra at 9.30 pm.

Tuesday 4th : Quarter Moon

Tuesday 11th: Dark Moon

Partial Eclipse of the Sun

This is a time of endings and closures, with the Dark Moon lasting over three nights on the 10th, 11th and 12th. If you'd like to know more about the Dark Moon, please click here. This powerful but erratic time is a good time to rest, regenerate and regroup. Don't waste energy or time working or wishing on this Moon, it's like wishing into a black hole.

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Thursday 13th to Thursday 20th:

Waxing Moon / First Quarter

From mid-evening on Wednesday 12th, when the Moon moves into Libra, you get a good time for first quarter gardening to plant leafy annuals, where you want to harvest the plant's foliage like the cabbage family. You get an even better time to sow or propagate leafy annuals next week, again from mid-evening on Saturday 15th, right through Sunday 16th and again for most of the day and evening on Monday 17th. In the tropics in September leafy annuals will include the cabbage family, lettuce, dill, etc.

Friday 14th: New Moon

Look up to the sky in the nights just after a Dark Moon: when you see the first sliver of moon you will know that the time of the Dark Moon is ended and now at the very first appearance of the new Waxing Moon is a very powerful time of beneficial energy. If you'd like to know more about working ritual and making wishes on the New Moon, please click here.

Thursday 20th: Quarter Moon

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Thursday 20th to Thursday 27th:

Waxing Moon / Second Quarter

From the afternoon of Thursday 20th, through Friday 21st, till around 6 pm on Saturday 22nd, the Moon is in Capricorn which gives you a good time to sow or plant fruiting annuals where you want to harvest the seed of the plant. An even better time for fruiting annuals occurs when the Moon moves into fertile watery Pisces around 11 pm on Monday 22nd, and stays there until the very late evening of Wednesday 26th. In the tropics in September, these plants would include beans, corn, tomatoes, pumpkin, squash, eggplant, zucchini, chokos, etc. You'll experience a void-of-course Moon for a short period (about an hour) finishing when the Moon moves into aspect with a planet at 9.53 am on Thursday 20th (Capricorn), 6.19 pm on Saturday 22nd (Aquarius), and 10.55 pm on Monday 24th (Pisces). Sunday 23rd: Spring Equinox At 7.51 pm the Sun moves from Virgo into Libra, and we celebrate Equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere this is the Spring Equinox where we farewell the dark half of the year. If you'd like to know more about Spring Equinox, please click here. This is the time to sow our thought seeds for the attributes we want to grow in ourselves in seasons to come.

Thursday 27th: Full Moon in Aries

This lovely moon lasts for three days (or rather nights) on Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th with the official Full Moon being the middle of the three, and is traditionally the time when the Goddess grants wishes to her followers at an Esbat. If you'd like to know more about celebrating the Full Moon, click here. Traditional Celts (Northern Hemisphere) called this Moon the Harvest Moon, as September was the last of the reliable harvesting months as people prepared for the hungry, dormant months of the long Northern winter.

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Friday 28th to Sunday 30th:

Waning Moon / Third Quarter

At midnight on Friday 28th/Saturday 29th, the Moon moves into earthy Taurus, which gives you two full days to plant or propagate root crops, where you want the plant vitality to be below ground, or perennials such as trees, shrubs, berries and vines. In September in the tropics root crops could include sweet potatoes, radish, ginger, etc.

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And if you look back to the very beginning of September, you will notice that we have come full cycle with our friend, the Moon. May I wish you joy as you harness the energy of the Moon in your daily life -

Bright blessings