Time to catch up on what's been happening this past month, and see what's coming up. Hey Reader. August arrives with that particular quality of light that belongs only to itself — golden and thick, slanting longer and lower each evening as though the sun is reluctant to let go of summer. Here in the Welsh Pagan calendar, the first of August is Gŵyl Awst, the festival that marks the turning of the harvest tide. The wheel hasn't tipped into autumn yet, not quite, but there's a knowing in the...

Hey Reader. We've reached the height of summer, and yet Gŵyl Awst carries within it the first whisper of change. Celebrated on the 1st of August, Gŵyl Awst is the Welsh festival of the first harvest; a day to give thanks for what the land has produced, to acknowledge the abundance around us, and to sit with the quiet knowledge that the wheel is already turning. The sun is at its strongest, the fields are golden and heavy, and still the days are shortening. Gŵyl Awst holds both of those truths...

Time to catch up on what's been happening this past month, and see what's coming up. Hey Reader. July arrived the way it always did, warm and unhurried, with the hedgerows heavy and the evenings stretching long past supper. This was the month of Ceridwen's cauldron, when the old stories about transformation and quiet endurance felt closest to the surface. It's a good month for slow magic and for finishing what had been started in spring. Anyway, what else has happened since last we spoke, and...