Gryphon’s Notebook

Every August, in cities and small mountain towns across Japan, families leave a light on for the dead. Lanterns go up at

The light is still long. The days are still hot. Nothing about the first week of August feels like an ending, and

On July 29, the same full moon that rises over Billings as the summer Buck Moon carries a quieter meaning halfway around

Astrology is not one practice but many, each a different way of reading the same night sky. Western. The familiar one: sun

We spend a lot of our spiritual lives reaching toward the light. We cleanse, we raise our vibration, we set intentions for

Around the twentieth or twenty-first of June, the sun reaches the very top of its arc. The day stretches long and golden,

In our last piece, we walked through how to cleanse a space — clearing it of stagnant energy, residue from difficult moments,

There’s a particular feeling that settles into a room when it hasn’t been tended to in a while. It isn’t always about

A new moon is always an invitation to begin. But in Aries, that invitation arrives with a particular urgency — a restlessness