January 2nd...

New Moon December 8 - January 5, 2026

Here is is my research up till now:

The last 7 months the moon goes way off from the Druid Tree Calendar...it's weird. I have seen where people debunk the Druid Tree Calendar - they say Robert Graves invented it for Modern Druid Astrology...

You can read about this here.

and it may be true because it seems that the Druids came up with a Menatomic Calendar which was both Lunar and Solar...

Here is a link to a paper I found written about it.

But for my purposes, I am going to use a Tree Calendar - and I am going to change some of the Trees for Colorado. My purpose is to reunite with Nature, while living in the city, while the incrementalism to transhumanize society continues...so I am going to utilize the Moon & the Trees to help me this year.

I have decided to make up my own symbols for each tree that correspond to the Moons in 2026 because the Winter Solstice fell in the middle of New Moon this year, which is auspicious.

Sometimes I forget to pray. This is so weird to me because I pray for everything usually - but there are things - like art where I forget because I have been doing it so long as a distraction that I forget that now I am doing it intentionally and therefore I need to pray.

Today, I had to get them done fast. I asked my husband to "clean the living room" for my Christmas present. My husband has been living in this house for many years and he lives like a construction worker - his house is his "garage". The rooms are not set up for "living" - they are his large studio of creation. I have been living here for 5 years and I have slowly been upgrading each room to "livable" from salvage. The living room is the last frontier. He had piles of tools stored and other piles of rubbish. So, he decides he is not only going to clean it but he is going to tile it with these "walnut" ceramic tiles he got from this high end ceramic tile dealer who was going out of business. My studio is in the "living room" so I had a small window this morning while he went to Home Depot, to get these last substrates done. No one is allowed in the LR today now that he is working.

So, this time I prayed. And I got these 4 done - (I had more black sheets left I could use now) - and they are much better than most of the others, I feel. Did I not pray for any of them before? Whew.

Life goes a lot better when I pray for every little thing.

Black Canson Mixed Media Paper 11" x 14" with Acrylic, Monoprint on Gel Plate

What inspired me today is my husband and I got a free trip to the hot springs yesterday because the person who handled the computer that's debit cards, didn't show up for work yesterday and then today we were going to lunch to celebrate our anniversary and the restaurant called to cancel our reservation due to a burst pipe and we were comp'ed in for our meal "next time" we make a reservation...

If that's not God, then what is? We are in the right place at the right time - the phone call from the restaurant came right before the 58th Street exit so we could just go to the Red Rooster Restaurant, instead, since we were hungry... so far, our whole anniversary party has been free.

Living by God is such a great way to live. And God is a gentleman - He gives me Free Will - so that I do have to ask for the help... As a spiritual advisor of mine used to say...
God loves us so much that He will let us starve to death.

Black Canson Mixed Media Paper 11" x 14" with Acrylic, Monoprint on Gel Plate

Besides the Tree Calendar, the Druids have a 12 Month LuniSolar Calendar...