Dyvynation by Mambo Danse

07/31/2026

It's Lammas Eve--the holiday that celebrates the first harvest, a time of hope and fear. The grain is growing tall and heavy in the field, but much can still go wrong before we bring it safely into the barn. Years ago, when I wrote The Fifth Sacred Thing, I called it the Time of the Reaper, scythe to the ripe grain, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence. When we inherit 5000 years of postponed results.

And tonight, a fire burns close to my home in Sonoma County. My land partners are on evacuation watch, trying to decide how to bring the cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, dogs, feral cats and all the humans to safety. I'm checking for updates on various apps, and sending prayers of gratitude to our firefighters and for all the work our community has done over these last years to reduce the fuel loads and make our area safer. Safer, but never safe, when we still have 5000 years of postponed results to reap, as the climate grows ever hotter and the world more dangerous.

It's Lammas, a time to bake bread and celebrate the grain, and I am in an ecovillage, Grain et Sens, where they grow their own wheat, mill it and bake bread that feeds the neighborhood. I have so many fears for my home, for the baked and burning world, for those who are fleeing not the wildfires of nature, which in the end are renewing, but the malicious fires of bombs and war.

But I also have hope. The firefighters are working around the clock. The Resistance is rising. For every act of cruelty, there are dozens of neighbors protecting neighbors. The year is turning, and if we survive these times of fire and dnager, the rains will come and renew the land.

07/02/2026

🐜 Weather Lore of the Day 🌾
Keep an eye out for high ant hills this July. 👀

“If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard.”

Old weather lore says ants may know more than we think. When ant hills rise tall in midsummer, folks once took it as a sign that nature was preparing for a rough winter ahead.

Whether it’s true forecasting or just old-fashioned country wisdom, it’s always fun to watch the little signs nature leaves behind.

07/02/2026

06/01/2026

Right!!!!

06/01/2026

If we are going to reclaim our democracy, improve it, and create a world rooted in justice and devoted to regenerating the environmental and social ecosystems around us, we need more than good intentions and outrage. We need a strategy. A strategy is a plan of action, or rather, an orchestrated series of actions designed to move people emotionally and activate them politically. I’ve been creating rituals and ceremonies for more than half a century, and oddly enough, that’s actually taught me a lot about strategy! Here’s what I’ve learned.
https://starhawk.substack.com/p/strategy-and-ritual-what-they-have

05/12/2026

Blue Moon , May 31st, 2026

A second Full Moon rises before May ends.

Rare. Unusual. Repetitive by nature.

The Blue Moon has always carried the feeling of something returning one final time. Not to begin again, but to reveal what still remains unresolved.

On May 31, 2026, the Moon reaches fullness for the second time within the same calendar month, creating one of the rarest lunar phases in the modern calendar. It will not appear blue in the sky. The name comes from older folklore used to describe something uncommon, something outside the ordinary rhythm of time and witches have always known that when the rhythm changes, the energy changes with it.

A Blue Moon feels different from other Full Moons.

Its light carries less expansion and more reflection. Less manifestation and more realization. It does not ask what you want to call in. It asks what keeps repeating.

The same attachment.
The same wound.
The same cycle.
The same version of yourself you keep returning to, even after outgrowing it.

This particular Blue Moon is also a micromoon, occurring when the Moon reaches apogee, its farthest point from Earth. It will appear smaller and softer in the sky, distant in appearance yet emotionally precise and that distance matters.

The Blue Moon creates space between you and what you are observing. Enough space to finally see clearly. Enough space to stop romanticizing what drains you. Enough space to recognize where your energy has been trapped in repetition instead of growth.

In witchcraft, this Moon has long been associated with endings, release work, banishment rituals, uncrossing, and the closing of karmic loops. It is not chaotic energy.

It is corrective energy because the universe will continue placing the same lesson in front of you until you decide whether you are entering the cycle again or finally walking away.

05/09/2026

Celebrate in a magical village in the Northwoods of Wisconsin USA at 2026 Pagan Spirit Gathering, June 14-21. Rituals, Concerts, Pagan Leadership Institute, Workshops, Bonfires, Drumming, Dancing, & More! Sponsored by Circle Sanctuary

05/07/2026

Here’s another podcast in my series on strategy. I’m using the brilliant work of Donella Meadows, systems theorist, on leverage points in a system, and how they might apply to organizing and making political change. This is part one, looking at the lower-level but still important ways to intervene. More will follow in future episodes!
https://starhawk.substack.com/p/podcast-strategy-donella-meadows