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welcome to the full moon! People keep talking about what a weird winter it is, with so many signs of spring happening when we should be freezing and bemoaning the long winter and wondering when spring will come. This spring-ish energy is certainly moving through me like the bright moon on the snow.Below is a list of some upcoming things I am excited about, including an intensive in community

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It's the first full moon of the year, and as usual, the moon wakes me up in the middle of the night. It's like all of a sudden everything is clear and my mind is quiet enough to write an entire book or solve the riddle of my schedule or understand the limits of the law or have a crystal vision about a person I am working with. It's dark and quiet and I can feel my ancestors speaking through me.

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Dear everybody,It's almost winter. Where I live, the ground is frozen and covered in tiny frosty crystals that break under the boot with a satisfying crunch. I have recently moved farther into the hills of Western Massachusetts to a beautiful old restored barn just up the road from the rushing Mill River, which I can hear from my window. It's also a short walk to my favorite library, in which the

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I know, I know, it's totally not a full moon, and I had a real (kind of) dilemma about if I should just wait until the new moon to write this, but I am such an anti-perfectionist, that I thought I'd shake things up a bit and surprise! write on this waning moon in aries. It's sort of nice to honor this moon; it's like the full moon gets all the girls and the new moon gets all the jews, so here's

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Hi everybody!Today is the full moon in sagittarius with a total eclipse this afternoon, in case you were wondering why you feel so weird. My plan is to lay in the sun until I'm hot, then jump into the gorge, then lay in the sun until I get really, really hot and repeat this cycle until I'm hungry and have to eat something delicious and sip on the young lilac mead Luke made last week. What??? I

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My heart, like so many of yours, is breaking for our world. While I feel full what sometimes feels like never-ending grief, I am also keenly aware of the beauty and resiliency in communities coming together, mobilizing actions, and taking care of one another. It's so vital that we stay grounded right now. Grounded in the reality of the crisis and grounded in the reality of what opportunities

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It's not the full moon, but I wanted to write to tell you all some things. As the day begins to dawn here in the still snowy woods, I wake up with both a heavy heart and the feeling of the sap rising. I don't know quite how to comprehend the magnitude of the earthquake in Japan and the nuclear fallout (on top of the sad, but sadly unsurprising turn of events in Wisconsin. )It's so easy to shut

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It's been a while. I've been hibernating in Narnia. For real. Tonight, the full moon is shining on the trees, with leaves and needles encased in crystal and silver and the ground sparkles and glitters and reflects. The world is frozen and still. Icicles are daggering off the roof, channeling the light and it's hard to sleep.I've been thinking about the dark. One month ago tonight, the full moon

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Winter MagicOpen HouseSunday, December 12, 20101-5pmNorthampton, MAjoin Dori Midnight and Brittany Wood Nickerson for a winter open houseWarm yourself by the fire, gather together in community, sip magical teas and snack on delicious treats, and a chance to see what we've been brewing in out herbal apothecaries: elixirs, cordials, Charmed Honey, salves and creams, teas and tinctures, and more...

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friends,a tale...the long version.(the short version follows below if you don't have time for fairy tales.)XOOnce upon a time there was a very small, but mighty witch who lived in a village in a wee cupcake castle with her baby unicorn and a miniature tiger. She dedicated her life to helping people heal from all the things they went through in their lives. She loved the people who came to see her

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It's Autumn, people!It's the new moon!The trees are totally on fire, the ground is golden and so soft under my feet, and everything is turning inward. I though this would feel so scary to me, as I am a Californian to my core and basically like to channel lizards in the sun, but I am diving into the dark time with total abandon. It makes sense to my body to let my sap flow downwards and be

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Hello everyone!there is still some space in this workshop I am co-facilitating on Saturday. It's a great opportunity to be in community - especially if you find yourself carrying around a lot of grief, despair, anger, fear, and overwhelm about the state of things here on earth. It is based on Joanna Macy's The Work that Reconnects.I am really excited about it and just wanted to pass the info

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a little movie the wonderful Loren R. Robertson made about the classes I teach... Magical Arts with Dori Midnight from Dori Midnight on Vimeo.

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Today I made an essence from the flowers of the tenacious Japanese Knotweed in the woods behind my house. I can see this grove of green from my window and this week, I noticed it has fountains of frothy white flowers like an art deco painting gone wild. It's a huge thing- it towers over the goldenrod and yarrow and roses that bend over themselves with the weight of a bumblebee. It's woody stems

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August New Moondrinking the dew from the mantle of the ladyAlchemilla vulgaris

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JULY new moon: Love Lies Bleeding in the garden

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I'm feeling a real need to acknowledge what's happening in the gulf right now. I've been getting so many emails from people who say they are crying their eyes out or having trouble getting through the day or from people down south feeling isolated and like the rest of the world doesn't care about what happens to them.I think this (as well as the attack on the flotilla in Israel and all the other

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decomposeIt's the dark moon, the edge before it's born again tomorrow. It's a good time to slough off, clean the house, unload. I've been thinking about this blog. It may seem to some that I live on dew drop soup and cobweb salad and my days are strung together with magic thread and every morning my clothes are sewn on by sparrows (well, that actually is true). I want to dive into the shadows for

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It's hard to believe, but this is my first real garden. It's shocking, I know! I am a person who is meant to be carrying on about my garden and bringing bunches of dirty leaves to potlucks and getting up first thing in the morning to sing songs to zucchini and have non-violent communication with the snails and aphids. But I've been a city girl for a while with little access to garden. So I am

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It's the full moon so it's time to write. I can't really decide what to write about. One thing is that I looked out my window yesterday and saw a bear in the backyard, just snacking on some pear tree. Then the bear gingerly tried to knock over the compost bin. I felt like a sour adult yelling at a teenager doing something stupid/fun. I was like, "Hey bear! No! That's not cool! Stop!" and the bear

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I love May Day. May Day, or Beltane, has a long history of being a wild and free frolic in the woods fairy magic celebration, and then, like you're making a delicious sundae, you pour the hot fudge and whipped cream and toppings of choice of workers' rights and labor history to make it such a deliciously substantive day.To honor the workers, I built a fairy house. See above.I used all locally

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Hi. This is my backyard.My new morning practice involves a tree swing and bare feet on the grass.I don't even want to be inside ever. Well, okay, maaaaaybe I'll go inside when I am being swarmed by mosquitos at dusk. Does anyone have suggestions on how to invoke feelings of love and compassion towards bloodsucking parasitic creatures like ticks? I want to love them. I do. I know they are just

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I love youIt's my last full moon in California. It's bittersweet, this move. I am going to a place where everything will smell different and I might not know anyone's name (the plants names that is). I love California. I love my work. I love my communities. I love all my clients. I love Rainbow Grocery. I love the cherry trees in spring and how the sidewalks look like a princess parade went by. I

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People,Potions class was so fun (check it out- photos!) And so full, we are doing it again.If you couldn't make the first one, now is your chance to come make yourself a magical delicious potion! for love! for passion! for healing! for protection! for creativity! for dreams! for whatevs!POTION MAKING WORKSHOPwith Dori MidnightSUNDAY MARCH 7 20104- 6pmgravel & gold $20-$30 sliding scaleopen to

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Dear everyone,happy full moon! I am still in the woods by the sea, but there is so much news to share!Many happenings (Potion Making Workshop, Valentine's Herbal House Party, and Equinox Open House) below.Also, more about the big move to spread my magic across the land.What's HappeningPotion Making Workshop at Gravel and GoldSunday, February 7th 4pmCome make your own healing elixir for what ails

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"Fennel is for Farting!"Amaranta and Malcolm, two graduates of Magical Arts, teach the younger students about the magic of Fennel- a beautiful and very useful plant that grows all over wild near parking lots and abandoned hillsides by the school. A tea of fennel will really help when you are a wee bit gassy.After our herb walk, I did a class on Crystal Magic. I brought in all my most magical

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Tonight the moon will eclipse and the Sabian Symbol for the moment (11:11pm here on the west coast) is "Radiant sprite dances upon the mist of a waterfall (each degree of the wheel has a symbol channeled by a person in 1925. weird and amazing. here is more.) I am absolutely staying up past my bedtime (a very reasonable one for a grandma) to go out and make an essence in the garden tonight and

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I have been obsessively listening to the Climate Summit on Democracy Now every morning. My desire to be there, to be in the streets of copenhagen with protesters from around the world stems not from guilt or obligation, but from a place deep in my heart that knows that we all need to be stepping up right now. My friend Riyana is there and I have been reading her posts like a hungry bear. if you

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Check out more photos from the event hereWinter Solstice Two Thousand NineA Night of Ritual + Magic + NourishmentCelebrating the Night and the LightWith Dori Midnight & a 4 Course Winter Feast by Yasmin Golan, chefKitchen Witchery + Feast + MagicSunday December 20 2009In the MissionThe Four-Course Menu will shepherd us through the Longest Night of the Year, Between the Bones and Leaves of the Old

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I have been charming so much honey, y'all! It's true that the Hot Sex Charmed Honey is selling out- the ladies at Gravel & Gold  cannot keep it on the shelves and then get the juicy dirty tales from customers... yow.Of course, there is always Fertility Honey, Love Spell Honey, and Abundance Honey. I am working on a Home Sweet Home honey right now too, which will be ready in the late winter.AND I

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My babies!!!Magical Arts at CASA at Rooftop Alternative School in San Francisco, where I have been teaching for over 10 years! This week we made Magical Potions: Tsia is holding up her "Happiness Elixir" with essences of Rose Quartz, Fairy Magic, I Love Myself, and Sunshine. Aminah, Georgia, and Sierra are sniffing Georgia's sweet concoction for good dreams. 

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this weekend i set up shop at dirtstar (one of the amazing events of the queer cultural center) which hosted some SF homesteaders, activists, artists, performers, and myself.here's what i did:Reverend Dori Midnight’s Apothequeery:  spellcrafted elixirs to sustain the spirit at DIRTSTAR (queer cultural festival) As dirt- loving visionaries, I ask how we can sustain our hearts, bodies, and spirits

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 I just made up a batch of fresh California Poppy tincture while singing Oooooh child things are gonna get easier, ooooh child things will get brighter. Thank you Nina Simone!I am in love with this plant- her petals are Cheeto-orange silk wings that make a cup of gold that fairies sleep in. I take this medicine when I can't sleep but my whole body aches with tiredness, like a wound-up toddler who

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just another day at fairy camp...the hard work of building homes for those demanding garden gnomestyler (magical name: gina aquamarine mermaid) loves his rose crown

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Some more photos from my visit at the flower essence society in nevada city.the roots of impatience. no really, these are the roots of the glorious Impatiens glandulifera- the remedy for irritation and rushing. Oh Tiger Lily, why are you so beautiful? Some say that this remedy helps us to be in balanced power- for me this plant's  medicine is so much about being unafraid to fly with grace, while

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I just spent a week in Fairy Heaven. Actually it was more like Fairy Grad School. I met my dear friend (and brilliant intuitive counselor/flower essence practitioner) Shayne up in Nevada City for a week long intensive at the Flower Essence Society, run by the grand pubas of flower essences, Richard Katz and Patricia Kaminski. It was in their house, which was totally out of Lord of the Rings-

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Happy Full moon, people!Here's some news for you!You can listen to an interview ofKara Sigler and me about our workshop on herbs and nutrition for trans folks on KPFA!www.kpfa.org---->archives---->Full Circle----> June 6thUpcoming Classes:Magical Boundaries> using magic to make and maintain boundaries for trans and genderqueer folks@ TRans:THRIvE 815 Hyde St. btwn Bush & SutterJULY 22nd6-7:30free

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Friends, Lovers, Countrypeople! Welcome to my blob and Happy New Moon!An auspicious day to begin this blog (which by the way is a testament to manifestation. A certain weeyotch, also known for curing foot injuries, said, "I've decided you will have a blog.") I am writing this mainly see what color the text is, but while I am here I will share a secret recipe for Honey Dripping Onions, which will

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