🌕Happy Full Moon in Virgo and Meteorological Spring🌿
*plus some exciting news about Ecoliteracy for Educators 2024!*
Hello dear friend,
I hope this email finds you well as we enter the final week of February. Welcome to this bi-monthly newsletter if you’re new here. Thank you so much for opening this edition at a time of year when you may be feeling the push of Spring and the pull of Winter as we enter this ephemeral ‘in between’ time before the Spring Equinox.
The Daffodils (or daffodoodles as my mother-in-law calls them!) and Crocuses are bringing bursts of colour to grey days and with warm sunny spells followed by biting winds you may be thinking, is Spring really nearly here?! Now, you have a choice with regard to when you mark the first day of Spring. A bit like the new years (solar, lunar and zodiacal) there are variations depending on which calendar you use which I’ll talk more about later.
Firstly, some seasonal dates to ground you as we edge towards Spring:
24 February 12:30 GMT: Full Snow Moon in Virgo
1 March: beginning of meteorological Spring
1 March: St David’s Day (Welsh)
5 March: St Piran’s Day (Cornish)
8 March: International Women’s Day
10 March: last day to watch my Spring ephemerals masterclass*
Sun remains in Pisces (until 18 March)
*If you read my last newsletter, you’ll know that I’ve created a free 30 minute masterclass to help you identify 10 Spring plants who are appearing now! The recording is available to watch until 10 March and you can access it by clicking below.
🌿Ecoliteracy for Educators
As well as writing this seasonal newsletter, I offer two online courses curated around the Wheel of the Year. One terrestrial - Ecoliteracy for Educators, and one celestial - Moontime, myths and medicines. Ecoliteracy for Educators is a 6 month journey between the equinoxes (20 March - 22 September) that will equip you with the tools to observe and connect with U.K native tree and plant species as they emerge from their winter dormancy. You'll gain skills to identify plants and their properties (e.g whether they're edible!), learn about their folklore and ethnobotany (the study of the relationships between plants and people). I only offer this course once a year, so if 2024 is the year you deepen your connection to plants, I’d love you to join me! It’s not just for educators either, anyone who has an interest in plants and would like some ways to communicate this with others is very welcome.
✨Early bird enrolment is open now! To save your spot before 10 March and get £100 off the course investment click the button below✨
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