Cosmic Weather Report for January 2021
Santa Cruz Cosmic Weather Report with evolutionary astrologer Catie Cadge. Your January 2021 astrology and horoscope
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Category: Columns
Spicy Goodness
Hot sauce! Spicy goodness from the Mountain Fermenters - Greg Roe and Mike De Smidt - for the San Lorenzo Valley Post.
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Glogg and Pebernodder
By Marielle Martin Traditional Scandinavian Christmas Fare Since ancient times, Scandinavian midwinter celebrations have centered around Norse and Pagan rituals of bringing warmth, joy, and light to the community to counter the darkness and cold of the season. Once Christianity was established in the region in the 11th century those traditions began to be called Christmas, but many practices continued. …
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Barefoot on the Crooked Path: Yule
By Melinda McNutt, Seanchaidh Yule or Winter Solstice: the shortest day/the longest night of the year usually arrives in our Northern Hemisphere December 21st or 22nd. Granny was clan matriarch. We’d gather around her hearth, light candles from the Yule log, feast, sing, tell stories, and hold vigil for Great Mother as she labored through the darkness. On Bay leaves…
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Winter Bathing for Mind, Body & Soul
By Jen Padgett Winter bathing rituals can be traced back to ancient cultures. Ayurveda, an ancient Indian medical system in practice today, guides bathing as a purification process for the body, mind, and soul. Hindus who bathe in the River Ganga perceive its waters to be holy nectar. The Romans bathed communally in bathhouses constructed on natural hot springs. They…
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Hope Rising
Lars Fabiunke shares his experience assisting victims of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire.
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Soil’s Renewed Purpose
The Ben Lomond Gardener By Uncle Skip It is not easy to express the joy and relief a gardener feels with the season’s first real rain. You’ve spent months zealously tracking temperatures and watching your plants for the least hint of water stress. You might have overwatered, a time or two, just to be safe. You might also have watched,…
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Real Estate: COVID and Wildfires
Santa Cruz Mountains real estate news
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Forest and Habitat Explored
By Zane Moore White ash blankets the forest, in some places even up to a foot thick. Much of the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in areas that receive the most rainfall and have the highest biomasses—mainly the old growth redwood forests of Big Basin—were burned. Sadly, based on recent satellite imagery (worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), it appears that most of this…
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The Valley Gardener: Digging Deep into Autumn
By Marielle Martin As fall folds toward winter it’s time to get into the garden and prepare for new weather. We’re lucky here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, blessed with a mild autumn favorable to working outside. Aside from our evergreens, colder temps lay much in the garden bare, exposing the bones or architecture of our outdoor spaces. Those bones…
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