Moon Calendar Jan-Feb 2025
Cosmic planting calendar
By Monique Macfarlane
This coming January, we have a unique opportunity to experiment, and see the impact a particular aspect of the calendar can have on our environment. With the node coming up at 3pm on Sunday 19 January, we can sow radish seed hourly from 9am to 9pm, to see how the negative influence can arrive, and subside.
Negative influence can be perceived as stunted or unusual growth, pest and disease occurrence, slow growing, and lack of yield. Some practitioners avoid garden work for the whole day due to the negative influence, some avoid two hours either side; in the calendar here we suggest avoiding six hours before, and three hours after.
For this, I suggest sourcing a large tray, good quality seed raising mix, and new seed. Radishes do prefer cooler temperatures, so ensure the tray is not in full sun or a very hot seedling house. It is also important to clearly label by the hour, as in weeks to come these are very important data points! Each hour, on the hour sow a line of radish seed in the tray and water in gently. I would also suggest sowing one more row of radish seed the next day on Monday 20 January in the morning, as a control.
Radishes are great for this experiment, as they germinate quickly. It could be a great little school holiday project for the kids! In the coming days you will see life emerge, and the opportunity to witness. Photographs are a great tool in this, to create a catalogue of the changes through the growth period in the coming weeks.
This particular node also falls during an ascending period, on a root day, which is when we typically would sow radishes in the garden. You are welcome to repeat this experiment multiple times, but also consider the constellation and placement in the sky of the moon where the node is present, as it most likely will differ next time from a root day during an ascending period.
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Monique Macfarlane is a holistic food systems facilitator, teaching biodynamics, planting by the moon, no-dig food growing and self-sufficiency. See www.natural-wisdom.net
Monique co-creates with organic, biodynamic, regenerative, no-till, and natural principles on eight hectares in Waihi that includes a small market garden, orchard, pastoral grazing, chickens and agroforestry.
Images: Arina-Ulyasheva, VeraPetruk
