Spring and Ostara fun!

Last Wednesday was Waldorf Homeschool day at Many Hands House! It was a super fun time! I just love the homey pandemonium there! We helped the kids make Spring baskets, with wheat berry seeds to grow wheat grass. Kevin checks his basket a couple times a day! It would grow faster if it were out in the sun I think, but it's been raining for several days so it's in the house, but still growing. Here's a picture of it from sunday night.

The grass is much taller today. I'll take another picture later with Kevin showing it off for an update. :)

Sunday was Ostara, the Vernal Equinox!
Kevin gets a Spring gift basket, usually with a few treats and some outdoor toys. Since his birthday and Yule are in the fall and winter, we save outdoor toy gifts for spring. :)

He loves the hula hoop and bubble wand. He's already gone through all the glow sticks! lol

I was so ready for Spring, but it would be nice to see the sun!
How did you celebrate the First Day of Spring?

The Crescent Moon/Diana's Bow - Time to cut hair!

It's a new crescent moon out, and here at our house, at least for me, it's time to cut hair!
When the moon is a thin crescent, just after the new moon, we call it "Diana's Bow". That's when the moon is about 3 days old.

Several years ago I read a book called "Living by the Moon" by Ute York. An article in the book about a Russian barber who arranged with some of his clients to only cut their hair on the full moon or the new crescent (Diana's Bow) for many years really left an impression on me. In the article the barber talked of how his clients hair seemed to slow down it's thinning and some clients' hair even thickened or when from straight to wavy over the course of several years.

For the last 15 years or so, I have only cut my hair on the full moon or Diana's Bow. Now, up until 5 years ago, I could safely say this totally worked for me. My hair had thinned as I'd gotten older, but when I started cutting it according to the moon phase, it slowed down it's thinning and even got a little wavier. Then I started taking pre-natal vitamins prior to getting pregnant, and my hair really started looking great (from the vitamins). After my son was born however, my hair took a turn for the worse - a bunch fell out and it thinned and lost most of it's waviness.


But I refuse to give up! I continue to cut my hair according to the moon phase. Here's the basic rules:


If you want your hair to GROW, cut it on the full moon or when it is 3 days old (3 days after the New Moon aka Diana's Bow).
If you want hair to slow down it's growing (like shaving legs, face, etc) then cut/shave on the New Moon, the 3 days prior to the New Moon and the days following the Full Moon.

So what do you think? Willing to experiment on yourself and change when you cut your hair? It takes a few years to see a difference but it does work!