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We’Moon is a co-creation of global women's culture. Each year the We’Moon astrological datebook, wall calendar and cards collect and integrate powerful women’s art and writing from all over the world into a gorgeous and useful guide to lunar rhythms, astrological cycles, deep ecology, goddess-inspired pagan traditions, and multi-cultural, earth-based spirituality. We’Moon is a best selling appointment book, now in its 29th year of publication.

We'Moon 2010: Highlights:

We’Moon 2010: Reinvent the Wheel is a wake-up call. Riding on the thin rim of the Wheel of Change, between alarm at what humankind has wrought and trust in Spirit at the center, We’Moon 2010 inspires us to Reinvent the Wheel to transform and repair the earth’s sacred order.

“O Goddesses of the Great Round! Gaia, Mother Nature, Changing Woman. We are in awe of your mighty spinning, your Great Cycles of Life/Death/Re-birth. Help us to repair the world, reinvent the human spin. Even as we swing round toward the unthinkable, help us to trust in your Wholeness.” (from the Invocation for We’Moon 2010).

As the Wheel of the Year spins through solar, lunar, astrological cycles, We’Moon artists and writers offer hopeful images of next steps. They invite us deep into the wisdoms of past generations and indigenous earth-loving peoples, calling us to the land, where women have renewed passion for growing food sustainably. We’Moon pages frame urgency about war and climate change with visual beauty and graceful word, conjuring reinventions of self, celebrating diversities of ethnic traditions, embracing the cycles of life and death. Women share their work on personal healing and on restoring planetary balance; We’Moon 2010 serves as chronicle and oracle of these changes.

Each year We’Moon provides a comprehensive introduction to astrological terms and systems, and a complete day-by-day guide to lunar and planetary movements. We are fortunate to have truly insightful writers interpreting this information. In We’Moon 2010, Heather Roan Robbins contributes an explanation of sun and moon signs and transits, and an astrological overview of the year ahead. She also gifts us with daily astrological forecasts on the Starcodes page of We’Moon’s website.

Gretchen Lawlor skillfully translates astrological cues into clear paths of possibility for our own lives. She writes about what’s ahead astrologically for each sun sign: this is the
We’Moon page that everyone scurries to open and devour first!

Ffiona Morgan, creator of the Daughters of the Moon Tarot, graces We’Moon 2010 with writings at each of the eight Holy Days in the Celtic calendar. She weaves together seasonal changes, personal ritual and goddess-devotion to deepen our perspective on the earth’s cycles.

Sandra Pastorius writes about eclipses, Susan Levitt describes the Year of the Tiger, Beate Metz discusses asteroids: the Goddess planets.

One hundred and forty-nine women offer us stunning art and powerful writing in the pages of this year’s We’Moon. Teresa Wild is our front cover artist, with Firedancer, a vivid image that spins the fire of change. Leah Marie Dorian brings her native Metis heritage to her paintings, offering insight into indigenous women’s wisdom. Other beloved We’Moon artists include Jeannine Chapell, Carolyn Hillyer, Lindy Kehoe, Anna Oneglia, Durga Bernhard. Alicia Sui Bernal is among artists new to the pages of We’Moon this year. We are delighted to include writing from award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye who writes movingly of her Palestinian heritage. Other gifted writers include spiritual teacher Mama Donna Henes, shamanic guide and poet Beth Beurkens, ritual maker and word witch Marna Hauk, poet and facilitator Miriam Dyak, world-changer Vandana Shiva. We’Moon 2010 is bursting with creative expression to help us re-think everything we know in this critical time.

We’Moon 2010 is dedicated to women who are reinventing the wheel by re-imagining our dwellings. A portion of our proceeds will go to Mudgirls Natural Building Collective, a Canada-based group of women using ancient cob building techniques to reinvent the wheel of sustainable housing. Visit the MudGirls website for further information on this innovative work.

WeMoon 2010: Reinvent the Wheel Reviewed

Spokes from the Center: Review of We’Moon 2010 by Helen Laurence

“I speak of total revolution and must therefore turn around,” writes Elizabeth Page Roberts, a Brooklyn activist. These words appear for the last week of January in the 29th Edition of my favorite calendar: We’Moon 2010: Reinvent the Wheel, a publication of Mother Tongue Ink. Revolving, cycling, recycling, re-imagining…this latest edition acknowledges the necessity and celebrates the possibility of creating a sustainable dynamic among people, earth, and all life.

Like a bicycle forced into a rocky ditch, where the rider wobbles and nearly falls, our movement on the planet has begun to look absurd even to many who, until recently, never questioned the ways in which we struggle against the earth, foiling Nature’s wisdom and soiling Her as we lurch along. We’Moon 2010 offers, through delightful art and writing, the ways and means to get ourselves out of the ditch. For “Moon VI. Spokes of Community,” accompanied by a painting of many hands forming a wheel, Naomi Shihab Nye has contributed “Gate A-4.” Answering an announcement in the Albuquerque Airport Terminal seeking a speaker of Arabic, the author finds herself befriending a distraught Palestinian elder. The woman’s fears eased, they are soon sharing mamool cookies, talking poetry, and smiling with travelers from California to Argentina. “…this is the world I want to live in. The shared world,” she writes. “This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.”

Dedicated to those who are re-imagining our dwellings, We’Moon 2010 offers the possibility of creating our own shelters from readily available materials. How have we come to a culture of homelessness shoved up against one of outrageously expensive and often toxic homes? Is it a failure of the imagination to assume we must work our entire lives just to pay for our dwellings? In “Moon XII. Restore Balance,” we discover photos of a shelter built by MudGirls Natural Building Collective, and a small wood structure titled “Estrella at Home” photographed by Dolphin. On the November page for Full Moon in Taurus, an exerpt from Biomimicry by Janine Benyus asks, “How would Nature do it?” In this time of dangerous tension between the Center and the rim, it’s no surprise that a housing crisis should have arisen. In forsaking questions of impact for our larger home, we have forsaken ourselves.

Before all of us, a choice: a suffering and dying system or a healing, vibrant entity? In We’Moon 2010 we receive the inspiration to re-invent the wheel, to create new connection to shelter, food, earth, health, work, each other. Calendar, horoscope, ephemeris, herbal advisor, art book, and collection of wise words, this book is one to treasure beyond the year ahead.

WeMoon 2010: Reinvent the Wheel
by DV Trimmer

We'Moon has much to offer within each satisfying volume, as useful as it is beautiful, and the 29th edition, We'Moon 2010: Reinvent the Wheel, is exemplary. 240 pages of art, advice, affirmation, information, encouragement and invocation go well beyond what one expects from a datebook. We'Moon is, indeed, an appointment book, which serves also as a Lunar calendar, a handbook for harmonizing with natural cycles, and a compendium of international women's culture.

Reinvent the Wheel draws us in with a striking, high-energy cover featuring Teresa Wild's “Firedancer,” a woman seeming almost to control fire with her balance and composure. Inside we find Annie Ocean's gorgeous photograph of many hands on a well-worn drum. These images, and all within the pages to follow, impart a sense of empowerment and reverence. Our world is our responsibility, and using We'Moon can be a daily reminder to move through the year in a deeply conscious way.

We are offered tools such as planetary and asteroidal ephemerides, astrological portraits for each Zodiac sign, information on vibrational medicines and Moon signs, even concise explanations for the beginner who may not be familiar with glyphs, signs, aspects and phases. The wise creators of We'Moon give us signposts by which to navigate the fluctuating energies of natural seasonal rhythms, and the reassurance needed to face environmental crisis and broad societal shifts. 2010, the Year of the Tiger, is a time to take on tasks both fearsome and joyful in order to restore balance and justice to our communities. Reinvent the Wheel is a fine guide through this sea change in our collective consciousness.

For nearly thirty years We'Moon has been amassing a treasure trove of words and images reflecting a diverse unity among women from around the globe. This material is always useful, but in challenging times of upheaval and transformation, it becomes indispensable. Here we guide one another through seasonal, astrological, and even human revolutions. Through our sisterhood we gain a richer understanding of the whole of humanity and our place within the grander cycles of the universe. We are called to heal, to restore harmony, to flow, evolve, invent, so that we all may survive, and flourish.

We'Moon provides you with the space to record your own plans, dreams and discoveries next to the movements of planets, Sun, and Moon. This is an invitation to reflect on our interconnectedness, gain a sense of humility and purpose, and value our own stories as much as those we find already on the page. We become part of this deeply rooted lineage of "love, lore, and lessons learned" (in the words of We'Moon founder, Musawa). Using We'Moon establishes a habit of awareness in which we honor those who came before us and learn to act responsibly in what we hand down to future generations. Creative solutions in Reinvent the Wheel range from the DIY ethic of the MudGirls building collective to the intuitive wisdom of Biomimicry, and the recognition of the sovereignty of seeds in the face of genetic patenting. There's even a visual meditation on global cooling. Each moment of emergency is also a moment of opportunity; the answers offered in the pages of We’Moon are intriguing, as are the questions posed, like this one from Kate Rose Bast in her “Letter from Gaia”: "What will you birth?”

We'Moon '09 Highlights:

With the theme of We'Moon '09 – At the Crossroads – we invoke sources of guidance and inspiration for these challenging times. We’Moon ’09 serves as a guidebook, here at the Crossroads where planetary and personal well-being are so deeply intertwined and delicately balanced. Throughout the 13 Moons, our artists and writers consider pressing choice-points in individual and societal life. They pour out grief for loss of habitat and life-forms, sounding alarms about the dangers we face; and they bring hope and commitment toward healing the world. Women take power to choose new paths toward freedom and transformation.

Each year We’Moon provides a comprehensive introduction to astrological terms and systems, and a complete day-by-day guide to lunar and planetary movements. We are fortunate to have some truly insightful writers helping us make sense of this information. In the We’Moon ’09 Heather Roan Robbins contributes an explanation of sun and moon signs and transits, and an astrological view of the year ahead. She also gifts us with daily astrological forecasts on the starcodes page of We’Moon’s website.

Vicki Noble writes reflections on each of the year’s eight holy days, skillfully bringing history, traditions, and our present reality together to deepen our perspective on the celebration of earth’s cycle.

Gretchen Lawlor’s talent in translating astrological cues into clear paths of possibility for our own lives informs her work. In the We’Moon ’09, she writes the astrological overview for each sun sign.

One hundred and sixty one women contributed stunning art and powerful writing to this year’s We’Moon. Our cover artist, Jeannine Chappell, graces us with two portraits of Owl, guardian of the crossroads. Leah Marie Dorion, a new We’Moon artist, brings her Native Metis Heritage to her paintings, working to create a bridge of understanding among all people. Some of our favorite past contributors return to the pages of the datebook this year, including artist Lindy Kehoe, sharing her vibrant archetypal paintings, and world respected author Alice Walker, gifting us with words of wisdom about how we can learn to take care of each other in changing times.

We’Moon ’09 is dedicated to our elders and our ancestors who have come before us and are now here as guides at the crossroads. A portion of the proceeds will be given to The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.

Click here for further information on this powerful group of women.

Review: WeMoon '09: At the Crossroads
by Marna Hauk, Contributor

You may have been told it is bad luck to open a calendar before the actual time arrives. Don't worry, many times the reverso-truth will out. Come time travel with me, through the righteous romp and still rills of 2009 as only traveled, explored, and bountifully birthed in We'Moon '09: At the Crossroads. Join me on this time-traveling magic carpet woven of a thousand thousand thousand women, planets, and stars, species and delights. Do not hesitate to break open the wise owl cover and travel through crisis, sacred resourcery, and regeneration. This is the year in promise via We'Moon '09.

Come have your heart broken. Open. Helping us to remember and companion that from which we might otherwise turn, the We'Moon fulfills its promise of living large and looking deeply. As we fly through the thirteen moons, we learn of sacred councils of elders fighting species extinction, of young women muraling for fair education, women mourning their experience of domestic violence and celebrating their liberation, women standing witness and protesting war, and womyn brewing up bio-remediation potions of earth-healing. We'Moon offers another way into these times of desperate clarity and invites action instead of overwhelm. At the Crossroads helps us not just hold the knowing of planetary crisis, but take it into our bodies and live wildly with the gyring possibilities of it all: of species extinction, of women arising in liberation, of leaning on the resources of the Crone's road, the void, the possibility of earth regeneration. Not as a one-time ah-hah, but as daily revelation, moment by moment awareness. Our hearts break open and drink in the sustaining nurture of prayer, song, action, possibility, and insight.

Come have your heart healed. We'Moon is structured to support resourcefulness at the crossroads of possibility. Each page reveals the resources of planetary rhythm. Lunar rhythm and specific planetary aspects mark each day, Gretchen Lawlor's astrological guidance expresses monthly sun sign trends, and this year Vicki Noble provides insight and activities for eight sacred holidays. We'Moon: A spirit coach soothing the sacred and nurturing our impulse to be whole and holy. We'Moon: Time is sacred and each day is a unique bead colored by the multi-rhythmic hues of sun, moon, and earth—and womyn.

We'Moon '09 is a tool book for changemakers, deep feelers, artists, activists, mothers, grandmothers, daughters, visionaries. It contains a collective clarion for awakening and endeepening from the International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, and the larger circles of 200+ contributors. Each page shines with robust color, sings with poems and art deftly integrated. We'Moon's lavish visuals paint a living altar out of time.

Come unfurl at the cusp of possibility. We'Moon '09 is a chorus of crossroads, serving as spiritual companion and guidebook for both the instant-messaging 'tween concerned about the future of the planet and the scythe-carrying crone who is harvesting wisdom, for both the young communitarian mother fostering the next generation as well as the urban diva office warrior for whom We'Moon is a necessary sanctuary of poetry and art affirming womyn's culture and earth possibility. We'Moon '09: At the Crossroads delivers a year of joy and clarity, affirmation and the possible. As Alice Walker reminds us (page 100, May 25th), "Hard Times Require Furious Dancing."

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