Friday 6th March

Friday 6th March
As March begins, the Moon moves through the earthy constellation of Virgo, marking a root day and inviting our attention downward into the soil. Virgo carries qualities of order, discernment, and quiet devotion, making this a supportive time to prepare beds, add compost, prune roots, or sow crops that develop beneath the surface. With the Moon descending, its forces draw closer to the Earth, strengthening the relationship between soil and root. We, too, may feel called to ground ourselves — to clear, sort, and bring a sense of steady practicality to the beginning of the month.

Thursday 5th March

Thursday 5th March
The Moon rises in the earthly sign of Virgo, traditionally making it an ideal time to work with the soil as we move beyond the threshold of winter. Yet today a trine between the Sun in Aquarius and Jupiter in Gemini forms a strong air element influence, which gently overrules Virgo’s earthy qualities and favours a flower day instead — well suited to tending blooms, sowing flower seeds, and propagation. The Sun in harmonious trine with Jupiter is a powerful pairing. Jupiter, often called the “little Sun,” amplifies the qualities of light, expansion, and uplift, and with both bodies working through air signs, these forces are further enhanced by the zodiacal lightness surrounding them. We may feel this as a brightness in mood or a lightness in our step. If we are in the garden, it is worth making the most of this subtle increase of light, allowing our work to be guided by clarity, openness, and a sense of gentle expansion.

Wednesday 4th March

Wednesday 4th March
The Moon was once part of the Earth over 4.5 billion years ago, according to the widely accepted giant impact hypothesis, which proposes that a planetary body collided with the early Earth, leading to the Moon’s formation. In an interesting parallel, Rudolf Steiner also spoke a century ago of the Moon once being united with the Earth and later separating, suggesting that its forces now work from beyond the Earth to bring influences of fertility and growth to the living world. We readily accept the Moon’s visible effects on the tides, so might we also remain open to its more subtle influences on nature, plants, and even ourselves? Where humanity once held an instinctive understanding of these rhythms, they now wait to be rediscovered through a renewed and conscious relationship with the living world

Tuesday 3rd March

Tuesday 3rd March
The Moon rises in the constellation of Leo, bringing forces of warmth and vitality, making it a favourable time to begin sowing chillies, which thrive with this element of heat. However, due to a lunar node in the morning — when the Moon crosses the ecliptic path of the Sun — it is more supportive to work in the garden during the afternoon, as plants sown or transplanted earlier may experience slightly stunted growth under these unsettled cosmic conditions. We may sense a similar rhythm within ourselves: Leo can awaken confidence, generosity, and creative fire, yet the lunar node introduces a moment of subtle tension or inward turning, encouraging us to act not from impulse alone, but from a steadier and more conscious warmth.

Monday 2nd March

Monday 2nd March
With the Moon in Leo, warmth rises through the garden, carrying a fiery vitality into soil and soul. The gentle protection of the greenhouse becomes especially meaningful now, gathering and amplifying heat, extending the growing season, and helping young plants establish before the wider landscape has fully awakened. This lunar warmth mirrors what we sense in nature as sap stirs and buds begin to swell. A rising astrality can be felt in the air, and with it the increasing presence of flying insects, bees and early pollinators weaving movement and life through the garden. Moon in Leo invites us to work consciously with warmth, fostering vitality without force, and recognising fire as the quiet engine of renewal.

Sunday 1st March

Sunday 1st March
We begin March with the Moon rising in Cancer, carrying soft watery forces of nourishment and care, inviting us to tend, sow, water, and protect what wishes to root and gather strength. By evening, the Moon moves into Leo, shifting from water to fire and encouraging confidence and creative warmth. In old Persian tradition, four bright stars were known as the royal stars because they marked the four directions and helped people orient themselves through the seasons. These were Aldebaran in Taurus, Regulus in Leo, Antares in Scorpio, and Fomalhaut in Aquarius.
As the Moon approaches Leo and Regulus, often called the heart of the Lion, we are gently guided from inward tenderness to outward courage, holding water and fire in balance as the new month begins.

Saturday 28th February

Saturday 28th February
The Moon now descends through the watery constellation of Cancer, drawing her forces downward into the soil. In this descending phase, vitality gathers below, strengthening roots and encouraging steady establishment. It is a fruitful time to sow and transplant leafy greens — lettuces, chard, spinach — crops that respond tenderly to the moist, nurturing qualities of this sign. As the Moon lowers, our hands are called downward too — to press soil around young plants, to water gently, to notice what needs protection. This is a moment when care has a profound impact. If we meet the garden with patience and presence, we strengthen not only the plants, but our relationship with them.

Friday 27th February

Friday 27th February
Today Venus moves into the constellation of Pisces, joining Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter already gathered there, so that four planets now stand together in this water sign. At the same time, all the visible planets are concentrated within one half of the zodiac, spanning Capricorn through to Gemini, creating a clear emphasis in one region of the sky. With such a clustering, the cosmic forces are not evenly distributed but focused and intensified. The fourfold gathering in Pisces strengthens the water element, bringing themes of fluidity and sensitivity to the foreground. From a biodynamic perspective, this may coincide with increased moisture, softness or changeability in the weather, inviting careful observation of both sky and soil.

Thursday 26th February

Thursday 26th February
The Moon moves from the earthy steadiness of Taurus into the airy lightness of Gemini, and the quality of the day shifts. The weight and grounding of the past days begins to lift, replaced by a more mobile, curious and outward reaching mood. With the Moon in Gemini, energy can feel lighter and more sociable. Thinking, planning and organising may flow more easily, and there is a natural impulse towards movement and exchange. These air forces also support working the soil. Light digging or gently aerating the ground can help bring breath and space into the earth. Spend time walking the beds, turning the soil carefully, sowing flower seeds or simply observing. Let this airy rhythm refresh your thinking and bring renewed enthusiasm to your garden work.

Wednesday 25th February

Wednesday 25th February
The Moon moves through Taurus today, bringing a steady and grounding quality to the day. After two weeks of ascending in its sidereal rhythm, it now begins its descending path. As the Moon descends, its forces work more closely with the Earth, drawing activity downward and supporting root development. This makes it a favourable time for sowing and transplanting, helping plants to establish strongly beneath the soil. As we move towards the spring equinox, solar forces are also strengthening. Over this two week descending period, we can consciously harness both lunar and solar rhythms to begin propagating plants for the year ahead, laying firm foundations for the season to come.

Tuesday 24th February

Tuesday 24th February
We meet the half moon in the constellation of Taurus. Alongside the familiar synodic rhythm of phases, which takes about 29.5 days to move from new moon to new moon, the Moon is also moving through its anomalistic month. Because its orbit is elliptical, it is sometimes furthest from Earth in apogee and sometimes closest in perigee, a cycle of about 27.5 days. With the Moon now in perigee, lunar forces are stronger and can feel heavy or pressing, making this an unfavourable time for sensitive garden work. The soil may feel dense and growth somewhat over emphasised, so it is wiser to pause, observe and tend to quieter tasks while allowing the forces to rebalance.

Monday 23rd February

Monday 23rd February
The Moon rises in the constellation of Aries before crossing the threshold into Taurus by the afternoon, giving us a morning coloured by striving and passion, while the afternoon lends itself more towards grounding work and quiet industriousness. Let us hone into these rhythms and consciously work with this subtle duality in our day, aligning ourselves with the shifting forces of the cosmos. As night falls, we can look up and see Taurus in the sky, with the bright star Aldebaran, known as the Eye of the Bull, glowing with its vivid orange hue as the fourteenth brightest star in the heavens. Just above Taurus lies the shimmering cluster Pleiades, long connected with agricultural timing and seasonal change. By simply noticing these stars, we begin to strengthen our relationship with them.

Sunday 22nd February

Sunday 22nd February
Today the Moon rises in Aries, bringing warm forces into the garden. A planetary trine between Venus in Aquarius and Jupiter retrograde in Gemini — both air signs — overrules the usual fruit day and brings about a flower day through its harmonious influence. A trine occurs when two planets stand exactly 120 degrees apart in their journey through the zodiac, allowing their qualities to flow freely and support one another. In the early morning, the fruiting forces are still present, but they are quickly overtaken by a surge of etheric light. As the air element strengthens, the day becomes increasingly attuned to flowering processes. This makes it a favourable time to sow or tend to flower crops, working with the subtle uplift carried on the breath of the cosmos.

Saturday 21st February

Saturday 21st February
The cosmos has inspired our ancestors since the beginning, yet in recent times we have grown distant from the starry world above us. Many cities now glow with such intensity that only a few constellations remain visible through the veil of light pollution. For much of human history, however, the sky was a living calendar, guiding agriculture, ritual, and daily life. Monuments such as Stonehenge remind us of this intimacy, carefully aligned to the summer and winter solstices, and likely attentive also to the Moon’s longer 18.6-year rhythm. The stones mark the breathing of the Sun through the year and the wider swing of lunar forces along the horizon. In biodynamic agriculture, we seek to renew this awareness, recognising that our sowing and tending take place within these greater cycles of light and time. As we work in the garden today, we might simply remember that our plants grow not only from the soil beneath them, but in quiet relationship with the cosmos above.

Friday 20th February

Friday 20th February
The Moon deepens into the constellation of Pisces, bringing water forces down to Earth and making it a good time to tend to leafy greens. The Moon joins the outer planets Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and soon Mercury and Venus will also enter this watery realm. Venus takes 225 days to orbit the Sun. From our perspective on Earth, we see Venus trace a rose-like pattern over eight years, completing thirteen orbits in that time. This is known as the Venus waltz. The very same pattern can be glimpsed when cutting an apple horizontally through its middle, revealing the five seed pods within — a quiet mirror of the cosmos held in the fruit.

Thursday 19th February

Thursday 19th February
The Moon moves from the light element of Aquarius into the water element of Pisces. With this comes an invitation to sow seeds that will become leafy green vegetables such as kale, chard, spinach, and other greens, which will be inspired and supported by the forces of Pisces. In biodynamic agriculture, we work to make sense of the multitude of rhythms arising from the movements of the planets and the Sun, from our geocentric perspective here on Earth — where we ourselves, and our plants, look out towards the cosmos and receive its forces.

Wednesday 18th February

Wednesday 18th February
The Moon continues to deepen into the constellation of Aquarius, having moved in front of the Sun yesterday to cause a solar eclipse. Today, it conjuncts Venus and then goes on to occult Mercury. The Moon moves through the zodiac each month, while some planets take years to pass through a single sign, meaning the Moon forms conjunctions with — and occasionally occults — these planets many times over the course of a year. Each of these meetings subtly alters the quality of the day, as the Moon briefly gathers and refracts the planetary influences before carrying them onward through its rhythmic journey.

Tuesday 17th February

Tuesday 17th February
Today, we meet with a solar eclipse in the sign of Aquarius, as the Moon moves in front of the Sun. This will be partially visible at the tip of South America, across southern Africa and Madagascar, and will be fully visible from Antarctica. Birds may fall silent as the day briefly darkens, before beginning again with a short dawn chorus. The solar eclipse subtly influences the rhythm of the natural world and invites us to slow down, observe more deeply, and attune ourselves to the quiet pause within the greater cosmic breathing.

Monday 16th February

Monday 16th February
The Sun has now moved from Capricorn into Aquarius, as we draw closer to the Spring Equinox in Pisces and the quiet beginnings of spring. Today, a planetary trine is formed between Mercury in Aquarius and Jupiter, moving retrograde in Gemini. These planets meet 120 degrees apart on the zodiac, bringing an element of air and light down towards the Earth. This influence overrules the rootedness of Capricorn, making it a favourable time to tend to flowers — aside from a small cosmic interruption, as the Moon occults Mars midway through the day. Even so, the overall gesture of the day remains light and expansive, inviting us to work with clarity, openness, and a sense of upward movement.

Sunday 15th February

Sunday 15th February
Ancient cultures understood that the Moon and the Sun move to different measures of time. Twelve lunar months add up to about 354 days, falling short of the solar year by roughly 11 days, and without correction, this gap slowly pulls the Moon away from the seasons. By observing a longer rhythm of 19 solar years, they recognised that this period closely equals 235 lunar months, allowing the two cycles to come back into alignment. By occasionally adding a thirteenth month within this cycle, the lunar rhythm was not lost but consciously re-integrated into the solar year. In this way, the Sun held the steady seasonal gesture, while the Moon continued to shape mood, feeling, and inner life.