Monday 20th April

Monday 20th April

The Sun now moves from the constellation of Pisces, which has guided us over the Easter period, into the constellation of Aries, bringing a gentle warmth and renewed impulse into the days. At the same time, the Moon deepens into Taurus, offering a grounding quality that roots us in our activities. This presents a good opportunity to work with the soil, tend to root crops, and take up practical tasks that require focus and physicality. Venus can be seen in the evening sky, shining clearly. When you find this bright planet, you will often notice the Moon nearby, and through this simple observation, you can begin to build an inner picture of the zodiacal belt. Slowly, over time, it reveals itself as a great cosmic rhythm, moving and breathing from our earthly perspective, offer ing new patterns for us to sense and work with.

Sunday 19th April

Sunday 19th April
The Moon, having waned to the New Moon a few days ago, now begins to wax once more, with a slight crescent just visible in the evening sky. With this rhythm, we are invited into a time of growth and development, a quiet encouragement to work on ourselves with greater consciousness. As the Moon gathers light, so too does something in nature begin to swell and arise, building gradually on the journey towards the Full Moon, where this process reaches its culmination in brightness and expression. Today, the Moon also stands at perigee, its closest point to the Earth. This intensification of lunar forces can make the day less favourable for tending plants or working the soil from a biodynamic perspective, inviting us instead to step back, observe, and prepare inwardly for the days ahead.

Saturday 18th April

Saturday 18th April
The Moon rises in Aries, bringing a sense of direction into the day, something we can harness to be productive in our activities and more direct in our communication with others. The cosmos is always moving, no rhythm ever truly repeats, yet when we look closely, we begin to notice patterns that return in new forms over time. Aries carries a clear, forward impulse, encouraging us to act rather than hesitate, to step into things with a bit more courage and intent. In the garden, this can be a good moment to focus on fruiting plants, sowing or tending tomatoes, chillies, and beans, working with a steady sense of purpose. It is a day for doing, but not rushing, allowing clarity to guide our actions rather than force.

Friday 17th April

Friday 17th April
The Moon begins the day in Pisces, where a New Moon deepens a quiet, watery mood of renewal, as the garden gathers strength beneath the surface. This gentle influence invites us to move with care, tending leafy plants, watering and weeding, supporting their soft growth. As the day unfolds, the Moon crosses into Aries, bringing a clear shift from inward stillness to warmth and direction. The mood lifts, encouraging more purposeful engagement. In the garden, we can follow this rhythm, turning from leaf to fruit, tending or sowing tomatoes, chillies, and beans, working with the subtle shift in forces carried by the Moon.

Thursday 16th April

Thursday 16th April
Today we see the Moon deepening into the constellation of Pisces. Feelings of fluidity may arise, allowing us to find breakthroughs in projects that we have been finding challenging. There can be a quiet softening in the day, where things begin to move not through force, but through a gentle yielding. In the garden today, we may be carried by this energy and work with a greater sense of flow, tending to our garden and simply enjoying being outside at such a wonderful time of year, as the garden begins to express itself.

Wednesday 15th April

Wednesday 15th April
The Moon rises into the constellation of Pisces, bringing the gentle, enveloping quality of water into the garden. This influence is deepened by Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, and even the Sun, all gathered in Pisces, increasing the likelihood of damp and changeable weather. In the garden, our attention turns to leafy greens. It is a favourable time to tend, weed, and harvest them, especially as the Moon ascends, helping to maintain their freshness and vitality once picked. Pisces invites us into a mood of care and sensitivity. As we move through the day, we might soften our approach, meeting both the garden and those around us with quiet attentiveness — a kind of small, living prayer carried through our actions.

Tuesday 14th April

Tuesday 14th April
The Moon rises in Aquarius, bringing a lightness and airiness into the day that can be felt within the garden organism. There is a subtle shift towards the unseen, the relational, and the more cosmic qualities of growth. Biodynamic agriculture continues to unfold around the world, offering insights that are deeply spiritual, yet pointing towards truths that science is only beginning to approach. It can be understood spiritually, biologically, experientially, or even through the lens of quantum physics. In biodynamics, we learn to hold these different ways of knowing together, drawing from multiple disciplines to grasp the key ideas first given by Rudolf Steiner over a century ago. These ideas resonate today, continuing to find relevance across the world, as a way of gardening, farming, and relating to nature that feels increasingly necessary.

Monday 13th April

Monday 13th April
The Moon rises in Capricorn for the final time this month before transitioning into the air constellation of Aquarius, where lighter, more subtle forces begin to be mediated and gently brought down to Earth, influencing both nature and ourselves. In the garden, this is a beautiful time to tend to flowers and to the honey bees. Now arising from their winter torpor, the bees move out into the fields of dandelion, gathering nectar and pollen with quiet devotion. The pollen, rich in protein, is transformed into bee bread and, together with honey, nourishes the developing life within the hive.

Sunday 12th April

Sunday 12th April
The Moon moves through Capricorn, an earth sign that draws everything downward into form, structure, and quiet endurance. There is a seriousness to this gesture, a strengthening from within, where growth is not showy but deliberate, shaping what lies beneath the surface. Capricorn invites us to work with patience and intention, laying foundations rather than seeking immediate results. In the biodynamic rhythm, this is a root time. The forces of the plant are gathered into the soil, making it an ideal moment to weed, earth up, and tend to root crops such as carrots, beetroot, parsnips, radishes, and turnips. By working the ground now, we support the plant in forming strong, clear roots, free from disturbance. There i s a quiet discipline to the day. What is done now may go unseen, but it is this hidden work that gives strength and integrity to all that follows.

Saturday 11th April

Saturday 11th April
The Moon moves into the constellation of Capricorn, transitioning from the fire sign of Sagittarius into the earth sign of Capricorn. This brings a sense of grounding to our activities today and invites us to work more closely with the soil, preparing vegetable beds, turning compost, weeding, and tending to root crops. As the Moon journeys through the zodiac each month, the biodynamic rhythm moves through the elements. By following this movement, we begin to feel into the rhythms of the month, both consciously and through direct experience. Our ancient ancestors lived more intuitively within these cycles, but as we have become more distant from these streams, we are now called to reconnect through our awareness and conscious attention.

Friday 10th April

Friday 10th April
The Moon continues its ascent through Sagittarius, moving from west to east. In its sidereal rhythm, it rises higher in the sky with each passing day over the coming two weeks, supporting the growth of plants from above the soil. However, the day becomes less favourable as Mercury in Pisces crosses the ecliptic on an ascending node. This can bring a subtle sense of cosmic confusion, making it a less ideal time for working directly with plants and soil. Instead, we might turn our attention towards preparation. It is a good moment to begin gathering the materials needed for the biodynamic cow horn silica preparation (501). Quartz crystals can be sourced and finely ground into a powder, then mixed with water and placed into cow horns. These are buried in the earth over the summer months, where they gradually undergo their transformation.

Thursday 9th April

Thursday 9th April
The Moon rises in Sagittarius, bringing warmth to the day and helping us to engage with our passions. We may feel a resurgence of energy, both in the garden and within ourselves. There can be a need to move — whether through working the soil or exercising — in order to fully meet this stream of energy. In the garden, it is a favourable time to sow beans, courgettes, and tomatoes, which benefit from the Moon’s passage through Sagittarius. It is the Sun and its warmth that fructify and bring sweetness to the fruit. Biodynamic agriculture, which does not rely on artificial fertilisers, supports the development of tomatoes that are sweet, fragrant, and rich in character. In contrast, the use of fertilisers can cause tomatoes to swell excessively, becoming watery, as each cell takes on more water to balance the salt-like nature of the fertiliser.

Wednesday 8th April

Wednesday 8th April
The Moon continues its final moments through Scorpio constellation before crossing the threshold into the fiery constellation of Sagittarius constellation, bringing a sense of warmth and inspiration. This shift invites us to sow chillies, tomatoes, courgettes, beans, and other crops grown for their fruiting aspects, as they are supported by the expansive, fire-filled qualities of Sagittarius. In our day, we can also take up this impulse, carrying our activities with greater drive and intention, and meeting the countenance of the day with an inner warmth that seeks expression through action.

Tuesday 7th April

Tuesday 7th April
Today we see the Moon at its furthest point from the Earth, known as apogee, a moment that brings a sense of lightness and expansion to the forces streaming towards the Earth, gently overruling the Moon’s passage through Scorpio constellation and making the morning especially favourable for tending to flowers. The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, meaning we always see the same face turned towards us, while the far side remains hidden from view. At this time, Artemis II is journeying around that unseen side of the Moon before returning to Earth, and so as we look up, we might hold the quiet awareness that human beings are moving within that same cosmic space, an incredible feat that we have already begun to take for granted. I hope that we do not reduce the heavens to mere resource or commodity, but meet them instead with reverence, humility, and a renewed sense of our place within the living cosmos.

Sunday 5th April

Sunday 5th April
Easter has arrived, a day of renewal, celebration, and quiet wonder. After the stillness of the past days, something begins to rise, both within the Earth and within ourselves. In the garden, we feel this quality of light and the response from the flowers. We hold a renewed sense of hope, something needed even more acutely in this modern world. The Easter Moon rises in Libra, a sign of light and balance, before continuing into the water sign of Scorpio, where deeper forces of transformation begin to stir. As we walk the land today, we are invited to feel this movement, from balance into transformation, from stillness into life. The resurrection lives not only in story, but in the soil beneath our feet, in the cosmos, and in our hearts.

Saturday 4th April

Saturday 4th April
Today is Holy Saturday, a day held between endings and beginnings, and in biodynamic practice it is considered an unfavourable time for working the soil and plants. Instead, we are invited into stillness and reflection, to pause with the land as it, too, seems to wait. Beneath the surface, unseen processes continue, preparing for what is to come. This is a threshold moment and liminal space, a gentle holding between inward dreaming and outward becoming, from gestation towards germination, as we await the quiet promise of renewal.

Friday 3rd April

Friday 3rd April
Today is Good Friday, marking the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In biodynamic agriculture, Good Friday and Holy Saturday are recognised as unfavourable times for sowing, transplanting, or interacting with the soil. The occasion speaks to a profound earthly moment, one of deep rupture and quiet transformation, that is intimately connected to the land and our activity upon it. The land itself seems to enter a gentle pause, a resting gesture where life draws inward and becomes still, and in this same movement we may feel our own hearts soften and turn inward. Rather than working or shaping, we are invited simply to be present, to observe, and to hold a quiet awareness of what is passing through both earth and human life. This is a time for stillness, reflection, and remembrance of an event that Rudolf Steiner placed at the centre of history.

Thursday 2nd April

Thursday 2nd April
Maundy Thursday arrives as a quiet threshold within the Easter rhythm, marking the evening of the Last Supper, a moment of humility, service, and inward turning. In the garden, it invites us to work with a similar gesture, to tend rather than to push, to listen rather than to impose. This is a day to be close to the soil, to notice its needs, and to offer gentle care through tasks such as weeding, watering, or applying preparations with intention. As we move through these simple acts, we may also recall the abundance of last summer, the warmth, the fruit, the fullness of life that once moved through the garden, now resting within the soil as memory and potential. Just as this day commemorates the act of washing feet, an expression of devotion and service, we too are called to serve the land with care and reverence. In biodynamic practice, this can be a powerful moment to deepen our relationship with the farm organism, recognising that our actions carry both physical and subtle effects. What we do today, however small, can be held as a kind of offering, a quiet act of stewardship that supports not only the vitality of the soil, but also the renewal of our own inner landscape.

Wednesday 1st April

Wednesday 1st April
The Moon rises in the constellation of Virgo as it descends in its sidereal rhythms. This rhythm makes it an ideal time to apply 500 cow horn manure preparations across your garden to improve soil vitality. Fresh cow manure is stuffed into cow horns, buried over winter in the earth, and then dug up, and a pinch of the transformed matter is put into rainwater or spring water and stirred for one hour in a dance between order and chaos. As a vortex is formed by stirring, reaching down into the barrel, you are then invited to move in the opposite direction, against the vortex, to create chaos. This helps enliven the cow manure preparation with water before it is spread as an inoculant for the soil, bringing in beneficial bacteria, fungi, cosmic forces, and intentions.

Tuesday 31st March

Tuesday 31st March
The Moon deepens further into the Lion, the zodiac constellation of Leo. The twelve constellations of the zodiac form a band of stars encircling the Earth, and from a geocentric perspective, these stars have been understood and expressed through animals, stories, and gestures by our human ancestors for generations. In biodynamic agriculture and gardening, it is understood that these cosmic forces, mediated by the Moon, have an influence on the garden and on nature as a whole. By aligning with these natural rhythms, we seek to enhance the quality and vitality of our produce and landscapes — always grounded in good practice and careful husbandry.