The Weekly Almanack

April 9 - 15: The Second Week of Middle Spring

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So it is … important often to ignore or forget what men presume that they know and take an original and unprejudiced view of nature – letting her make what impression she will on you – as the first men and all children and natural men still do. For our science so called is always more barren and mixed up with error – than our sympathies are.

June 16 - 22: The Third Week of Early Summer

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Watching the roadsides All the way to Hattiesburg Tracking chicory. THE MOON The Cherry Pie Moon enters its second quarter at 11:30 p.m. on June 18 and waxes throughout the week, becoming completely full on June 26 at 6:30 a.m. Rising in the afternoon and setting after midnight, the gibbous moon moves overhead in the evening.

June 8 - 15: The Second Week of Early Summer

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I stood there watching the wind ripple and wave through the grain, a sea of green animated with constant, unceasing movement, swirling about my waist as if alive, following no pattern of movement but waving now this way, now that, filled with an eternal surging restlessness, a great stirring of life. August Derleth, A Sac Prairie Journal

April 1 - 8: The First Week of Middle Spring

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The grass of spring covers the prairies, The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden, The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward, The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches.... Walt Whitman

March 24 - 31: The Final Week of Early Spring

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EPHEMERIS FOR THE TRANSITION WEEK TO MIDDLE SPRING The Eighteenth Week Of The Natural Year The Golden Goldfinch Moon, entering its second quarter on March 23, waxes gibbous throughout the week and becomes full on March 29 at 10:25 p.m.

March 16 - 23: The Fifth Week of Early Spring

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EPHEMERIS FOR THE FIFTH WEEK OF EARLY SPRING The Seventeenth Week Of The Natural Year When Finches Start to Turn Gold And the Earliest Daffodils Bloom

March 9 - 15: The Fourth Week of Early Spring

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EPHEMERIS FOR THE FOURTH WEEK OF EARLY SPRING The Sixteenth Week Of The Natural Year

February 23 - 28: The Second Week of Early Spring

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Slayer of winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer night! From “March” by William Morris

February 15 - 22: The First Week of Early Spring

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Simple attention to the details of nature, as always, helped me keep in sight both my center and my life’s destination and purpose, which was to live skillfully and mindfully each step of the journey. Stephen Altschuler LUNAR PHASE