Tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox, a time we seek balance in our lives as we stand at the threshold between the light half of the year and the dark half, and a time to appreciate the harvest – reaping whatever we have sown this year. Today I give thanks for my wonderful job here at Llewellyn. Sure, it has its ups and downs, like all jobs – that’s just part of the balancing act that is life – but there is nothing like the feeling of holding a new book in your hands. It is the fruit of many months of labor, many long meetings, a few road bumps, much communication with the author, and piles of paperwork. Yet, somehow, there it is, the collective work of many people coming together in

So, I'm reading Ann Moura's amazing new manuscript. Yes, it's been a while since this Green Witch author wrote a new book for us, but it's turned out to have been well worth the wait. This is the most serious book on all types of Esbat magick that I've read since working here. (And sorry, you probably won't see it on shelves until Fall 2010!) However, it's brought up a concern of mine, which we'll talk about at the Vision meeting next week. Basically there are several lengthy rituals included in the first half of the book - one for the waxing crescent moon, one for the full moon, for the new moon, for the waning crescent, the Blue moon, the Sidhe moon, the lunar eclipse and the solar