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Before the first seed goes into the ground, the cunning farmer looks up.
Long before the almanac became a fixture on the farmhouse wall, the Moon was the original clock of the cunning farmer. Not merely a celestial body orbiting at 238,900 miles, but a living intelligence. The moon is called Phoebe, Diana, Lucina, Proserpina, Hecate, queen of heaven, mistress of all the elements, "at whose nod lightnings breathe forth, seeds bud, plants increase."
The cunning farmer understands the Moon as mediatrix, the great intermediary between the celestial and the sublunar world. As the Picatrix instructs: "Heed the Moon in all your works since she is more important than all the other planets... Hers is the power of generation and corruption... She receives the influences and impressions from the stars and planets, and she pours them into the lower things of this world."
The Waxing Moon pulls energy upward, drawing vitality toward the surface. The Waning Moon pulls downward, into roots, into rest, into the drying of what must be reduced. The fertile signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces transmit the Moon's moisture and generative power directly into the soil. The barren signs: Gemini, Leo, Virgo are the times to cut, weed, and destroy what no longer serves.
The Moon is the mistress of moisture, and moisture is the medium through which she moves through all living things. As Ptolemy observed, she "distributes her effluence to us" — and the cunning farmer's task is simply to learn to receive it.
📖 "The Cunning Farmer" by Todd Elliott
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