Beltane or May Day adorning all with beautiful flowers and rejoicing in the fecundity on earth.

A guide to navigating perimenopause as a time of transition and renewal. Rooted in Ayurvedic wisdom, The Second Spring offers support through food, herbs, daily rhythm, and reflection—helping you move through hormonal changes with clarity, vitality, and grace.

The mid-spring, Egg Moon births the life of all of Mother Earth’s creatures and brings hope to the heart. We begin to see delicate plants sprouting, the birds are laying their precious eggs and the animals are birthing new life across the land.

This is traditionally an Italian Easter Bread. If you’ve been wanting to dip your toes into bread baking, this is a great place to start. It's an easy sweet bread and with a beautiful and unique result.

With the Milk Moon, the scarcity of early spring is giving way to late spring, where abundance is starting to overflow. The animals have birthed, the rains have come and the fresh green grass is plentiful.

A fleeting sense of balance in the wheel of the year. Night and day are of equal length and polarities are in equilibrium - dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer.

A Ritual for Honoring Thresholds

A Sap moon marks the transition from winter to spring and the spring equinox. Mother Earth fluctuates between warm thawing temperatures during the day and freezing temperatures at night. Life begins to wake up flow again, slowly at first.

Spring equinox ritual and silliness.

She is a great mother. Her fire is the fierce protection of life. When threatened, she rises like a mountain of earth—vast, immovable. Her power pours outward as love, a river forever flowing. Despite her great size, she moves with the swiftness of wind when she must. Within her lives the potency of emptiness, and she is strengthened by the nourishment of all the elements.

Transformation happens long before it is visible.

Brigid, a cloaked embodiment of Mother Nature, traveled by foot from village to village with her companions. Where she walked the earth, tiny sparks awakened in her footsteps. She held an oak staff in hand and a golden cloak wrapped around her shoulders.

Ghee is one of Ayurveda’s most treasured winter medicines because it is, quite literally, liquid sunlight transformed through plants and animals. Grass absorbs the summer rays and is eaten by the cow, who turns it into milk. Humans separate the milk into butter, and finally clarify it into a refined, golden nourishment. In the dark season, eating ghee is a way of feeding our inner radiance and weaving a thread through the seasons of Mother Nature.

The deepest dark of the year on earth, shines the brightest of heavenly lights in the night sky.

When people come to Mother Mountain to make wreaths, I hope they learn a craft—but also something deeper. My current curiosity is how humans stay well through ritual, culture, and connection to the natural world. Wreath making is a perfect place to explore this intersection: where physiology meets psychology, where spiritual practice meets daily habit, where ancient traditions meet modern science.

Long, long ago, when winter nights were truly cold and always dark, people said a mysterious woman walked through the snowy forests. She came out in the deep winter and they called her Yule Mother. 

Simple and soothing family crafts and rituals. We decorate our home and hearth year round with handmade garlands. Personally, I like to make intricate and elaborate seasonal paper garlands. But, as a mother, I also love a garland project that can truly include my young children, without leaving us all feeling frustrated because it is over their skill level. The following garland ideas I share with you are simple, beautiful, family friendly garlands to make WITH your children.

The Winter Spiral Garden is a ritual to honor winter time when, traditionally, light, warmth and food would be scarce.

This bird is brined in apple cider over night and slowly roasted the day of the feast. It is tender, juicy and bursting with unique flavors.