Monday 26th January

Monday 26th January
The Moon is in Aries for the day and reaches its waxing half-moon, a good time for taking first steps, strengthening resolve, and directing energy toward what wants to emerge. In the garden, we begin to sense signs of awakening from winter’s slumber: brief glimpses of sunshine and flowers peeking out from the cold, yet gently warming the soil beneath. Today, the warming forces of Aries help this warmth penetrate more deeply, as the increasing light encourages life to stir below the surface. This is a supportive moment for careful preparation — sharpening intentions now so that future growth can unfold with clarity and strength.

Sunday 25th January

Sunday 25th January
The Moon deepens into Pisces and then moves into Aries in the afternoon, marking a subtle shift from inward sensing to emerging initiative. In the evening sky, Jupiter and Saturn remain with us, accompanied by the bright winter stars of the northern hemisphere, including Sirius and the other stars that form the Winter Hexagon. This starry picture appears and disappears through the year as we move around the Sun, reminding us that we are always participating in a larger rhythm. The forces and gestures of the cosmos ebb and flow alongside earthly life, shaping both the seasons of nature and the inner movements of the human being.

Saturday 24th January

Saturday 24th January
The Moon spends the whole day in Pisces and continues to wax, creating a supportive mood for brainstorming, visioning, and sensing what wants to come into form. This is a day for imagination and intuition, where ideas may arrive as images or feelings rather than clear plans. As the growing light strengthens, we are invited to bring aspects of ourselves and our projects out of the darkness and into visibility. So often we hide parts of who we are, or keep our intentions concealed, yet when they meet the light they can connect with the spiritual world that quietly watches over and supports human endeavour. In the garden and in life, allow what arises today to be held gently — what is revealed now may guide future action.

Friday 23rd January

Friday 23rd January
With the Moon in Pisces, the day carries a softer, inward quality, inviting quiet attentiveness and gentle preparation rather than decisive action. In the garden, this supports beginning to ready greenhouses for the activity of the coming month — cleaning glass, checking ventilation, and creating an ordered, welcoming space for new life. It is also a good time for reflective planning, ordering seeds and refining garden layouts so they are well aligned with your soil, climate, and capacity. In this way, both gardener and garden can meet the coming sowing period with clarity, calm, and quiet confidence.

Thursday 22nd January

Thursday 22nd January
The day opens beneath a lunar node, a threshold moment that can feel slightly unsteady, inviting us to move gently and observe more than act. As the Moon deepens into Aquarius, the mood lightens and becomes more spacious, supporting social connection, shared reflection, and a renewed perspective, while also encouraging thoughtful self-care. Biodynamic agriculture, arising from the work of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy, seeks to enliven not only the land but the human being. Alongside practical farming, therapeutic approaches have developed that work with the whole person: eurythmy supports healing through conscious movement and rhythm; art therapy works with colour and form to harmonise the soul life; and metal–colour–light therapy engages substance, hue, and illumination to strengthen vitality, orientation, and inner balance.

Wednesday 21st January

Wednesday 21st January
Today the Moon rises in Aquarius, having left the constellation of Capricorn. On a clear, cloudless horizon, a fine sliver of the waxing Moon can be seen lifting into the sky, with Aquarius forming the cosmic backdrop. While the Moon reflects the light of the Sun, it also carries a reflection of the wider cosmos — especially the air and light forces associated with Aquarius. These qualities seek to loosen, enliven, and refresh growth processes on Earth. Through biodynamic practice, such forces can be consciously supported in farms and gardens, helping to restore vitality where land has become tired or overworked.

Tuesday 20th January

Tuesday 20th January
Biodynamics works with earthly and cosmic rhythms, consciously orchestrated by the farmer or gardener, who seeks to deepen their intention and attentiveness. Rudolf Steiner noted that the peasant farmers of ancient times were deeply connected to these rhythms and forces, perhaps without naming or conceptualising them. Their knowing was instinctive, born of close relationship with land, seasons, and sky. To reach a similar state within today’s conscious, material world requires something different: training, guidance, and sustained practice. Through this path, the modern practitioner gradually cultivates an intuitive, living relationship with biodynamic processes rather than merely applying techniques.

Monday 19th January

Monday 19th January
With the Moon in Capricorn for the whole day, mid-January carries a mood of gravity and quiet strength. We may feel more serious, inward, or aware of responsibility, with a natural pull toward realism and restraint. Biodynamically, this is a time of crystallisation, as formative forces settle into the soil and give structure to what will come. Growth is held back, yet foundations are being clarified and strengthened below the surface. In the garden, this supports tending boundaries, paths, and compost rather than sowing or planting. What is shaped today — in soil and in ourselves — is built to endure.

Sunday 18th January

Sunday 18th January
The Moon rises in the constellation of Sagittarius, but moves into Capricorn in the evening. Today we are greeted by a New Moon, with the Sun also crossing from Sagittarius into Capricorn. As we move from a warmth constellation into an earth constellation, we may feel a shift from outward enthusiasm toward inward gravity. What is initiated and aimed for in Sagittarius now needs to be contained, structured, and made durable through Capricorn, so it can endure. It is a day for striving and aiming, while also practising restraint — shaping vision into something that can stand the test of time.

Saturday 17th January

Saturday 17th January
Today the Moon spends the whole day in Sagittarius, appearing only as a fine silver sliver in the sky as we approach the New Moon. In the evening, Saturn and Jupiter stand like distant guides, offering steadiness and familiarity against the deepening darkness. Under Sagittarius, emotions often turn toward questions of direction and purpose, and we may feel restless, idealistic, or quietly reflective, sensing a need to realign with what feels true rather than what is habitual. With so little moonlight, feelings arise subtly, more as intuitions than clear thoughts. Sagittarius invites trust that a new orientation is forming, even if its shape is not yet visible.

Friday 16th January

Friday 16th January
Today the Moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius to meet the Sun, while also reaching its lowest point on the horizon in its sidereal rhythm. From this threshold, the Moon begins to ascend for the next two weeks, shifting the gesture from inward gathering to upward movement. In biodynamic understanding, this supports the rising of sap in plants and the gradual awakening of growth above the ground. Strengthening winter light and Sagittarius’ quality of direction encourage what has been held in darkness to begin lifting towards form and purpose. In the garden, this is a moment to sense intention and orientation, allowing future activity to arise from this quiet but decisive turning.

Thursday 15th January

Thursday 15th January
Today the Moon moves through Scorpio, descending in its sidereal rhythm, drawing forces downward into the Earth and supporting depth, concentration, and inner work. Although it is mid-January, the light is now clearly increasing with momentum, and this strengthening solar impulse meets Scorpio’s capacity for regeneration and transformation. What has been resting in darkness begins to stir inwardly, like compost gently warming at its core. In the garden, this is a good day for grounding tasks such as tending compost, observing soil structure, and supporting processes of breakdown and renewal rather than outward growth.

Wednesday 14th January

Wednesday 14th January
Biodynamic agriculture works with Rudolf Steiner’s fourfold understanding of the human being. This includes the physical or mineral body, the etheric body — comparable to qi in Chinese medicine as the life force present in plants — and the astral body, which brings qualities of sensation, emotion, and imagination in animals and humans. Human beings alone also possess the Ego or “I”, the unique spiritual core of individuality. This principle of fourfoldness runs throughout Steiner’s work and is also used in anthroposophical medicine, which approaches health holistically. From this perspective, modern medicine focuses mainly on the physical body, while many alternative therapies work with the etheric. Anthroposophical medicine seeks to bring the etheric and astral into greater harmony, supporting integrated human health.

Tuesday 13th January

Tuesday 13th January
With the Moon in Libra all day, the garden is held in a gesture of light, balance, and orientation. Libra, a sign of light, lifts us away from heaviness and toward clarity and proportion. As the Moon reaches apogee — its furthest point from the Earth — there is an intensification of light forces. In biodynamic understanding, apogee can overrule the qualities of a constellation; in this case, it further strengthens Libra’s capacity for light rather than diminishing it. This creates a day less suited to sowing or planting and more supportive of observation, planning, and inward preparation. In mid-winter, when the garden continues its inward descent, this heightened light does not call for action, but for orientation — clarifying intentions, shaping ideas, and finding balance before future work takes form at the right time.

Monday 12th January

Monday 12th January
With the Moon in Virgo, the day supports reflection and discernment — gathering inspiration, reviewing the year ahead, and quietly shaping new projects and collaborations. While the garden moves slowly in mid-winter, continuing its inward descent, this apparent stillness is not emptiness. Do not be fooled by outer appearances: beneath the soil, everything is held as potential. As the Moon moves into Libra, thoughts turn toward balance and relationship — how ideas may be carried with others, and how future actions can be placed in right proportion. Like the garden, we work inwardly now, allowing plans and intentions to take form beneath the surface, before they move into outward manifestation at the right time.

Sunday 11th January

Sunday 11th January
With the Moon in Virgo, mid-winter draws our attention to the small, precise acts that sustain life, where nothing is wasted, nothing hurried, and care is expressed through detail. In the hive, honey bees gather into a tight winter cluster, the queen held at the warm centre, regulating the colony’s temperature through subtle collective movement and maintaining a warmth close to that of the human body even as external temperatures fall far below freezing. The natural beekeeping movement is turning toward log hives, to offer honey bees spaces they can swarm to in spring, recognising that heavily manipulated colonies have become dependent on constant human intervention. Honey bees predate human beings by millions of years, and Virgo reminds us that true stewardship is not control but careful adjustment — creating the conditions in which life can continue its own intelligent work.

Saturday 10th January

Saturday 10th January
The Moon has now reached its half phase after the Full Moon and stands in Virgo, bringing a mood of assessment and quiet correction. This is a moment to pause and take stock, rather than to rush ahead. In the garden, January asks for careful preparation: reviewing seed stocks, noting what remains viable, and ordering only what truly belongs to your soil and situation. Virgo supports practical tasks such as cleaning tools, sharpening blades, repairing trays and pots, and tidying the shed so that future work can flow smoothly. On this waning half-moon day, we are invited to adjust our plans — refining rather than expanding — ensuring that what we intend to grow this year is rooted in realism, care, and thoughtful attention to detail.

Friday 9th January

Friday 9th January
With the Moon held in Virgo throughout the day, a clarifying quality settles over both land and mind. Virgo invites focus, discernment, and careful attention to what truly nourishes. This is a favourable moment to plan the garden for the year ahead: to ask what you enjoy eating, which crops sustain you, and which flowers you wish to live alongside in the coming season. Under this influence, intention becomes practical. Whether turning toward the garden, your work, or your wider life, Virgo helps us order our thoughts and bring vision into form. Today supports quiet planning — choosing the seeds, both literal and inward, that will allow your garden to grow in alignment with what you truly wish to cultivate.

Thursday 8th January

Thursday 8th January
The Moon begins the day in Leo, carrying a quiet courage and heart-warmth, before moving into Virgo in the afternoon, where attention turns toward care, discernment, and the healing gesture of service. In its sidereal rhythm the Moon is descending, drawing forces inward, and it continues to wane after the fullness reached only a few days ago. This is a time for consolidation rather than expansion — for allowing impressions to settle into the body and the soil. As dusk falls, Jupiter and Saturn shine like bright jewels in the evening sky, reminding us of wisdom gained over time and the patience required for what wishes to endure. Today invites gentle tending: of the land, of our work, and of the quiet order that supports life beneath the surface.

Wednesday 7th January

Wednesday 7th January
The Moon rises in the constellation of Leo, carrying a gesture of warmth and quiet radiance into the midst of winter’s outer cold. Under such skies, we are reminded of the human capacity to kindle inner fire when the world appears dormant. Rudolf Steiner, the founder of biodynamics, gave over 6,000 lectures during his lifetime, yet it was in the final years of his life that his insights poured forth most intensively. Responding to the needs of his time, he brought new light to education, medicine, social threefolding, and architecture, applying a holistic worldview shaped by philosophy, lived experience, and spiritual perception. As Leo lifts the heart and strengthens the will, today invites us to tend our own inner warmth — that quiet courage which, when held through winter, can become a guiding force for renewal in the year ahead.