"Conscious living by the cycles of the moon"--Cover.

For more than one hundred years, Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book has helped millions take advantage of the Moon's dynamic energies. This perennially popular resource features an essential weekly almanac that contains lunar gardening tips, timing guidelines for planting and harvesting, and inspiring quotations. Also exclusively in Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book: —A monthly lunar aspectarian with Moon tables —Detailed weather predictions for each region by renowned astrometeorologist Kris Brandt Riske —New and Full Moon forecasts for 2012 by Sally Cragin —A companion planting guide that features over one hundred plants —Electional rules and dates for ventures in love, relationships, business, finances, and other areas You'll also find fresh, topical articles that offer lunar insight into everything from parenting and weight loss to sustainable living and natural beekeeping. Discover how to improve your home's air quality with common houseplants, store vegetables and make preserves according to the Moon's cycles . . . and ultimately enjoy a fuller, more satisfying life. The number one lunar guide to natural living since 1905.

A popular companion guide for over a century, Llewellyn's 2011 Moon Sign Book is jam-packed with lunar essentials. Plan vacations and get a jump on the year ahead with weekly weather predictions by renowned astrometerologist Kris Brandt Riske, as well as New and Full Moon forecasts by Sally Cragin. Llewellyn's 2011 Moon Sign Book is filled with ways to enrich your life and boost your health with lunar energy and increase your green consciousness. Grow a bountiful garden using a planting guide for over one hundred plants, and consult a handy weekly planner for the best times to fertilize, cultivate, and harvest. With the monthly lunar aspectarian, you'll always know the best times to launch new projects and schedule important events. You'll also find inspiring and practical articles on how you can make use of the Moon's influence. Foster a close-knit neighborhood by creating a community garden, help your city or town by joining the local food movement, grow closer to your spouse or partner by taking in the energy of eclipses, and much more. A lunar gardening guide to help you cultivate healthy trees, herbs, and flowers Moon phase tables and a monthly aspectarian with favorable and unfavorable days to help you plan activities A complete weather forecast for 2011, with predictions for each zone

Since 1905, Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book has helped millions take advantage of the Moon's dynamic energy. This quick guide lets you plan ahead and use the natural flow of energy for better timing and success. From getting married to buying a house, there is practical advice for choosing the best times to do just about anything. You'll also find inspiring and useful information to guide you in love and relationships, business, health, gardening, and more. This edition features Sally Cragin's new and full Moon forecasts for all twelve signs of the zodiac. Also included are topical articles, horoscopes, a gardening guide, and more!

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted."--Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 The Appalachian region is deeply rooted in customs that have been handed down for generations. "Planting by the signs," a practice predicated on the belief that moon phases and astrological signs exert a powerful influence on the growth and well-being of crops, is considered superstitious by some but has been essential to gardeners and farmers for centuries and is still in use today. Sown in the Stars brings together the collective knowledge of farmers in central and eastern Kentucky about the custom of planting by the signs. Sarah Hall interviews nearly two dozen contemporary Kentuckians who still follow the signs of the moon and stars to guide planting, harvesting, canning and food preservation, butchering, and general farm work. Hall explores the roots of this system in both astrology and astronomy and the profound connections felt to the stars, moon, planets, and the earth. Revealed in the personal narratives are the diverse interpretations of the practice. Some farmers and gardeners believe that the moon's impact on crop behavior is purely scientific, while others favor a much wider interpretation of the signs and their impact on our lives. Featuring photographs by Meg Wilson, this timely book bridges the past, present, and future by broadening our understanding of this practice and revealing its potential to increase the resiliency of our current agricultural food systems.

Offers practical information based on the lunar seasons and cycles. From getting married to buying a house, this title includes advice for choosing the best times to do various things related to love and relationships.

Tending Inner Gardens: The Healing Art of Feminist Psychotherapy transforms the theory and practice of psychotherapy, one that values both the feminine and masculine perspectives. Set within a naturalistic framework, this model utilizes nature’s growing and healing processes. It proposes nature’s seasonal cycles as a model for the psychotherapy process, and author Lesley Irene Shore introduces nature’s seasonal cycle as a model for successful psychotherapy and demonstrates how to tune techniques to the rhythms of each season.Dr. Shore speaks with the voice of an experienced psychotherapist, sharing her struggles with therapeutic dilemmas and addressing issues common to every practitioner. She refuses to present simple solutions to the difficult process of helping people grow, yet offers new ways of thinking about this work. Readers will find this a healing book--for themselves as well as for their clients.The book covers relationship issues as well as the use of language, hypnosis, dreams, and creativity. Specific areas readers learn about include: language--teaches therapists to differentiate between questions that address conscious regions of the mind and ones which communicate with less conscious processes. metaphor--describes ways of working with metaphors to access less conscious processes trauma--explores the effects of psychological trauma and offers tools for healing its wounds psychotherapy process--uses nature’s seasonal cycle to chart the process of psychotherapyTending Inner Gardens transcends the artificial dichotomies currently characterizing much psychological thought. Psychotherapists will be interested in the natural model of psychotherapy which integrates a wide range of ideas and theories, especially the sections on the psychotherapy relationship, dreams, creativity, working with metaphors, language, and the process of psychotherapy. Interesting case studies illuminate this material. Students can benefit from seeing how the tools of psychotherapy are integrated with the art. Laypeople will enjoy reading about Dr. Shore’s personal evolution as a therapist, her life on Harmony Farm, and her cases, which are discussed in detail.While this book is primarily geared toward a professional audience, it attracts a wide range of readers. It should be read by experienced psychotherapists, faculty members, and practitioners, as well as those in training. This would generally include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, psychiatric nurses, and related professions. And while the book presents a primarily verbal, psychodynamic approach toward healing, its theoretical conceptualization will appeal to professionals in healing traditions such as art therapy, massage therapy, and expressive therapy.