Thursday Habits

Thursday is my day to open the door to creative thinking and doing; I've reverted to an earlier phase of my life, before painting and art school, when I was internally driven to Make Things, and they were varied and creative. But I'm also a different person now - as Grandma Earth Teacher I am led to make things that are a gift to the Earth in some way, sustainable, and with a message. 

Also, I need to prepare for the next week of Grandma Camps, with themes, projects, and field trips.

Agenda: 

1. Read "Tiny Habits"

2. Review and update my watercolor habit

3. Camp preparedness

4. Projects for the week

Third Quarter Moon of early August

Photo by Alan Gillespie

Wednesday is my day to re-group and re-define my week. First I make a plan for getting over the bump of the mid-week, then I re-envision my emotional tone and perspective.

And tonight is the waning Third Quarter moon of August. Today's moon energy is yang, a time for reciprocity, generosity, collaboration and connection; a final time of action before the next moon cycle.

August is a time of transformation and abundance - but it's rich with both the sweet and the sour. We are having our hottest days of summer right now, as a north wind brings us smoke from the north. Today I will pause to consider what I'm transforming into.

Agenda: 

1. My bump plan

2. Generosity practice

3. Writing themes

Tuesday

Tuesday is my day to look at my social and emotional self, and make an effort to shift my perspectives around how I view and treat the people in my life.

We are in the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors, a time of quiet, internal, heart-driven, intentional Being-ness.

Agenda: 

1. My anger journal

2. Read "How to Deal with Anger"

Grateful Monday

Monday is my day to reset for the week and get my ducks in a row - make some plans for health and home, and how I will step up for the Natural Living Challenge. 

We are in the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors, a time of quiet, internal, heart-driven, intentional Being-ness. 

Agenda:

1. Read "How to Keep House While Drowning"

2. Giving Each Thing a Home

3. New food habits

Sabbath for Energy

Sunday is my day to be quiet (at least for a while), with the spirit, in contemplation and prayer, and in community with nature and other bipeds.

Today I have a good deal of community interaction, so I'll bolster my soul with time in the garden this morning. The sabbath is a celebration, a holiday - I will keep it holy with my attitude: no complaining, or worrying.

We are in the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors, a time of quiet, internal, heart-driven, intentional Being-ness. 

Agenda:

1. Read "Your Heart Was Made for This"

2. Discern my receptivity

3. Love meditation

4. Expressing Needs in the World

Lughnasa

Lughnasa (loo-na-sa) is a Celtic festival celebrated in early August, usually August 1st. It's called a cross-quarter day because it falls approximately midway between summer solstice and autumn equinox, marking the end of summer in the Celtic tradition, and the beginning of the harvesting season.

The name Lughnasa comes from Lugh, the Celtic God of harvests, crafts, and the lightening flash, and nasad, which was an assembly or gathering. The Lughnasad was a gathering to honor and appease Lugh, so he would hopefully not throw a summer storm temper-tantrum, and ruin the harvest.

All of the cross-quarter days are times of transition from one focus to another. At Lughnasa the shift is from growth to harvest. 

And it's the yin time of the waning gibbous moon - a time to receive the fruits of our labors.

Agenda Today:

1. Journal Queries
2. Make bread

3. Arts and Crafts

4. Take a pause to enjoy the season

5. Catch up with planting

6. Nasad (gathering)