The Cooking Moon (JANUARY)

why the cooking moon I hear you wytches ask? Well I were thinking of the time between yule and imbolc and all i could think of was "cooking". After yule we are all in cooking mode and to survive the rest of the season to spring you need to get nifty on the ole left-overs & skimpy cupboard thing. I once survived a summer season with the skimpiest of cupboards and hand-outs when the allotment was waiting to grow. Pancakes sprang to mind and at the start I had plenty dried fruits to keep me going for the mix.

At the time these were staples in mi cupboards!! Plenty of variety too! The scope of Big breakfasts was huge!! the dried fruit pancakes the size of a whole frying pan lasted this litlle human being all summer long wiv very little else to eat just padding out the rest of the day with fluids really and the odd marmalade sandwich at Grandma's home for tea-time!!

Cooking is really mi single most favourite ting to do!!

Well whats this moon all about!
Plenty good stuff. It is really about coming to the end of the rebirth cycle when we are about to renew with the spring. think of the Ancient Cailleach Bheur of Winter as she is in Her days of wisdom. This Happiness is what we are celebrating and as we begin to renew like She does with the return of the Sun at winter solstice so this is the time of renewal. This healing moonth of reneewing prepares us for the intensity of such energies in springtime. As with anything of Earth, Our wise great mother teaches us by example. She prepares us for spring renewal, for life to return by showing us just that in the garden. As the Ancient crone becomes

The youthful maiden so the mantle of the Great Mother changes Once more!