Hazel New Moon
This Lunar cycle is all about organising, education, learning and wisdom. Stand beside a hazel tree and feel the magical charge in the air all around it.
New moons are always a sign and time of re-birth and re-activation.
This New Moon enters Leo at 10.38 am Wednesday 16th August Saturday.
It‘s the ninth moon cycle of 2023, our ancestors knew this as the Ogham tree Hazel moon.
This Lunar cycle is all about organising, education, learning and wisdom. It’s a time to really focus on the life force within. Just like the hazelnut within its shell, this month beckons us to break open and allow knowledge and creativity to flow, the nourishment from within shining outwards.
If we pay attention, the Hazel and this phase can bring knowledge in a very unique way, helping to develop intuition so that we can become wiser and see things deeply, in a true, real and balanced way with equanimity.
Stand beside a hazel tree and feel the magical charge in the air all around it.
Hazel - Coll
RULER OF THE 9TH LUNAR MONTH
Element: Air
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Energy: Masculine
The Hazel encourages us to seek out inspiration and celebrates the value of an enquiring mind.
It truly is the time of harvest. Harvest our knowledge, our wisdom.
Allow your bright fire to burn and share your bounty this harvest season.
Hazel Moon Energy:
Wisdom
Learning
Inspiration
Magic
Enchantment
Shadows /Reflection
Nourishment
“Hazelnuts figure richly in Irish folklore as an emblem of concentrated wisdom, something sweet, compact and sustaining, enclosed in a small hard shell…
The story whose compact symmetry is most satisfying concerns a sacred well surrounded by nine hazel trees, representing wisdom, inspiration and poetry.
The leaves blossoms and nuts of the trees all break out at the same moment, and fall into holy water, raising a purple spray. Five salmon living in the well would eat the nuts and for each nut a red spot would appear on their skin. Any person who ate those salmon would understand wisdom and poetry. The nuts would also raise bubbles of inspiration from the streams flowing from the well, which would be imbibed by artists and thinkers of all kinds.
It’s a complicated myth involving a tree of knowledge and several kinds of metamorphosis, and it oddly echoes the real story of the fruit - fish - river life cycle that sustains some Amazonian forest species.
Myths about plants, however superficially mystical, often have buried within them essential ecological truths.
The metaphor of the nut as a symbol of condensed wisdom from which some new form will ‘hatch’ has stayed with us. Yet the image of the hazel bush as a model for regeneration - visibly true and mythically powerful - has been largely passed by or forgotten.
The fading of our cultural and workaday intimacy with tress has allowed us to anthropomorphise them in a directly corporeal way, seeing the trunk, the body of the tree, as analogous to a human body, and therefore killed when severed from its earthly roots. This metaphor is badly used.
We lament the felled figure and fail to see the aspiring shoots - as satin sheened as salmon - rising from its foundations.”
The Cabaret Of Plants - Richard Mabey.
New Moon Cocktail Club (NMCC)
For those who subscribe to the NMCC see below for your recipe… and for those who don’t, you can subscribe here if you’d like to receive a new moon mixer to your door each month.
This Month’s New Moon Mixer - Rare Tea Company Earl Grey and Lavender with Lilac Essence
I’ve been busy harvesting Lavender (the hazelnuts are not quite ready yet) so it seemed like the most appropriate highlight of this months NMCC. I’ve blended this with Rare Tea Co Earl Grey tea, if you haven’t come across Henrietta’s tea yet I highly recommend you try them out. To finish I added a little Lilac essence fortified with Gin distillate and some fresh lemon juice.
Image- Rare Tea Co
Lavender Earl Grey Martini
50ml Gin or Vodka
25ml New Moon Cocktail Club Mixer
10ml Vermouth
Ice
Shake or stir everything in a shaker/jug with lots of ice until ice cold (you want to see the cold on the outside of the shaker)!
Strain the into a glass.
Maybe garnish with a lemon twist or a small lavender sprig
London Fog alcohol free
60ml cold Earl Grey tea
30ml NMCC Mixer
30ml lemon juice
1 free-range egg white
Ice
Lavender sprig
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker and dry shake. Then add ice and shake again. Pour into coupe glass and garnish with lavender sprig.