New Moon: 16th November 19:14 Full Moon: 2nd December 07:30
Blue Moon: 31st December 19:13 Lunar Eclipse: 31st December 19:22
Hello Friend,
Welcome to Bird&Bee’s news update. We hope you are all well and coping with the weather, the sniffles and the onset of Christmas!
We are at an exciting time at the moment with Christmas Markets hotting up, the ‘Word on the Street’ sculpture trail planning application going in next week, Creative Practitioner work underway in local schools and we have run out of Moon Mugs (don’t worry more have arrived!). Our Full Moon/New Moon Newletter will give you a flavour of what we are up to, what is happening in the night sky at the moment and any insights offered up in the process of creation….thanks for looking!
Ryan
Bird&Bee
Tonight's Sky
Sun: Rises: 07:40, Sets: 16:02
Moon: Waxing Crescent Rises: 11:12 Sets: 18:49
Meteor showers: The Leonids can still be seen tonight. Look towards the constellation Leo in the West this evening.
Planets: Tonight you can see Jupiter, low in the south west; Mars is visible in the East later tonight
The Moon
The Blue Moon’s a coming…
A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons, which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years there is an extra full moon in the same month. This extra moon is called a blue moon and makes its appearance on New Years Eve this year with the added bonus of a Lunar Eclipse!
Lunar Eclipse
The Moon will be above the horizon for the duration of the Eclipse and is visible from all over Europe, Africa and Asia. Start looking on New Years Eve from 18:30 UT (GMT).
Detailed explanation of the 2009 lunar eclipse
Website Updates
“Thanks Ryan & Sarah, They’re Fabulous! I had a lunar wave card from you last year, so I took a look at your website this time. My husband particularly loved the Firewood poster. I'm part way through a nutritional therapist course in which cleansing in the lunar cycle is recommended, so it's great to have an easy to see yearly calendar. Thanks again.” – Web customer
Take a look at the Firewood Collection Prints
Thank you to all who have visited our new website in the last couple of weeks. We have lots more to do on it yet, including adding a portfolio of all our current and past projects, tweaking the web shoppe and developing the Miscellanea section as a knowledge bank.
Some of you have had problems in using the web shoppe but we have been working hard to iron out the idiosyncratic creases that are inevitable with these things. We have also added a ‘Simple Shoppe’ for anyone who still has difficulties.
Send me your order and I will then send a payment request to you. You can make payment via Paypal or any Debit/Credit Card and I will process your order and post it straight out.
Christmas Gift Ideas
Moon Packs
We are offering Moon Packs this year, consisting of a Lunar Wheel Moon Calendar, Moon Mug and Lunar Wave Card all for £18! That’s a saving of £3. Perfect for any Moon Lover.
Moon Mugs
Moon Mugs are proving to be very popular this year - our first year of making them! We have sold out of our first batch so we have made some more in time for Christmas. With a deep blue glaze and a white inner, in fired mirror silver, with silver guilt rim - they make the perfect gift for moon lovers and tea drinkers alike. Why not go for something truly unique and original this year – it’s the only moon mug there is!
See the Moon Mug - 4 Pack now available: Save £8
Firewood Collection
A fireside guide to burning our most sustainable heat source...wood! The gold inlaid prints will glimmer by the fireside whilst intriguing anyone with an open fire, a stove or just a love of wood & trees. £7 each. Reduce your heating bill and heat your home for free!
Firewood Collection
Peace & Love at Christmas
We have introduced a Christmas card bundle this year. Why not send out Peace & Love to all this Christmas. With their vibrant colours and shiny gold and silver foil they are the perfect festive card.
These shiny double folded cards come with their own transparent envelope and are made using Wind Power. You can now buy a pack of 10 cards for £12
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The Bird&Bee insignia encompasses:
the Bird and Air in the North,
the Dragonfly and Fire in the East,
the Fish and Water in the South
and the Hare and Earth in the West
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all of which revolve and flow into one another.
We endeavour to take traditional knowledge from nature and experience and turn it into beautiful design that is both aesthetic and useful, whilst treading as lightly as possible on planet Earth. To us, there is no point in producing anything that isn’t both useful and sustainable. We print everything on paper that has been produced by harnessing the power of the Wind and using 100% recycled paper.
Please send us your comments, thoughts and ideas to:
Bird&Bee
PO BOX 3237
Sheffield
S11 9WJ
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