The first moon of the year 2022, known as the Wolf Moon, was a wonderful sight here in South East Wales. A photographer in Italy captured a moving flight of starlings over the city of Rome last Monday against the backdrop of the Full Moon (seen on BBC webpage). The pattern of their flight uncannily made a picture of a wolf’s head, or even a horse’s head. This moon is about shape-shifting: birds become a wolf, a counsellor I know becomes a gardener . . . This moon says that you are not simply the picture of you that the world sees, there’s another you that you can shift into.

I will be doing just that when Crickhowell Open Studios happens at the beginning of June – writer shifts to painter. This long weekend will coincide with the celebrations about the Queen’s 70-year reign. Watch this space. During this moon’s 28-day phase why not look at your own shifting patterns!

Those interested in the magic of numbers will tell you that 2022 is a 6-year – the number of healing, the bee and honey. There is so much in our world that needs both healing and the sustenance of the bee’s hard work. Wishing the best to all my readers!

We are halfway through the Festival of Light. Great to see the folks at Stonehenge today celebrating the Winter Solstice and the coming of the Light – one of the reasons why this timeless structure was built. Stonehenge and Solstice celebrations predate the world’s religions. Jan and I celebrate this day and our New Year begins now! To all who join with us we wish Love and Light to be with you.

This is the time to look back at your year. What has been achieved? Did the Equinoxes bring balance for you? What action is needed going forward?

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As celebrations of the Light draw near, as cards are sent, and messages are written, here is a muse about writing. The writer often tends to be the spy who comes in from the warmth. The warmth is the world which he observes – through the filter of his own conditioning of course – and he comes in from that world in order to write. Some of his words will be based on his activities as a spy. Some will be about how he spies on others, on the world, on the energetic transactions of the world as he is aware of them. Some of his work will echo his spying activities. Some of his work will reflect where his activities have taken him, what they have shown him. When one day he finds that the world is a place of warmth, and only the worlds of lies, failure of courage and betrayal are cold, that day, human interactions convince him that he will have to own up, to come in from the warmth and come out as a champion of the Light in all human beings.

Whoosh! William Blake – prolific poet, artist, philosopher, dreamer, wonder-worker, divine image-maker, was born on 28th November 1757. Look him up. Jason Whittaker’s lovely Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake was published this year, for example.

This Sunday (28th November) we will be lighting a candle of thanks to Blake’s memory and great spirit. One of his many visions was that Golgonooza, his beloved London, could become a new Jerusalem – not the geographical place, but an abode of peace and love where the imagination could flourish. Blake was a man of hope because, like Dante, he saw angels as real beings, and discovered that the closer you get to the Light, the more beautiful everything becomes. So, light a candle and, in the words of ABBA, believe in angels and try to see the good in everything you see. The world needs your positive energies.

My birthday is 31st October. No, it’s not about horror – that’s an American import – it’s a time to honour the ancestors, maybe to find out who they are even. Most of us are descended from a great African Mother whose adventurous children went out into planet Earth – and here we are! Say a thank you to them. Light a candle to them. Make a little offering.

Many are acquainted with the Celtic New Year beginning on the 31st. There are so many new year days. Mine begins directly after the Winter Solstice. But your personal new year begins on your birthday. If you are interested in the number mysteries of the great Pythagoras and it’s your birthday on October 31st this year, listen up: 31 + 10 + 2021. Add those numbers together and you get 10 = 1. A One year so it’s a time of new beginnings for all of us born on 31st October this year. Not a time for horror, maybe tricks and treats. May your new year bring you hope, great new beginnings and new adventures. Have fun!

The cost of space travel, and now private space travel, runs into billions of dollars.

At the last count there were at least 280,000 homeless people in the UK alone. More in the USA. Millions of humans exist in vast shanty towns, in countries from Brazil to India. With his timely Earthshot project, Prince William brings into focus: what are our priorities?

My longtime friend, Peter Clifford, lives near the Pyrenees in France. For some years he has been presenting an online News Digest which is well worth your viewing. The October issue of his Newsletter #24 is headed ‘Making a Difference – People Standing Up For Nature’. It comes as an email. You can find him at peter@petercliffordonline.com. It’s a digest full of articles and pictures.

1st day of October. Meanwhile the Rising Sun through those trees talks about new beginnings in 2021 – and on into 2022 – after over a year of hiatus for us all. Yes, we are heading through Autumn, to harvest time and the leaves falling from those trees, but they are saying prepare to go within, like the Bear. Conserve what you need to conserve. I’ve still got to gather the runner bean pods to collect seeds for next spring.