We’Moon 2016: Quantum Leap Year
by Anne Key, Author of Burlesque, Yoga, Sex and Love
Editor at Goddess Ink

The arrival of the new We’Moon datebook is the herald for the New Year, and We’Moon 2016: Gaia Rhythms for Womyn brings a year filled with beauty and support for change. The theme for 2016, Quantum Leap Year, is especially mindful, leading the reader through a year of destruction and regeneration—images inspired by Tarot card XVI: The Tower.

The title for each new-moon theme brings us through the process of the Tower year: the falling away of the old, opening the ground for the birth of the new. My favourite is the ninth cycle, Renewal, with an inspiring painting by Bettina “Star Rose” Madini of a beautiful violet phoenix surging into the sky.

We’Moon 2016 holds us in gentle, loving hands. Each month reminds the reader that the process of creation is in itself an act of destruction. A beautiful poem on page 122 poignantly expresses this perspective:

…Make of my wounds gateways,
breathing and seeing;
bind up my broken shape,
fill me with still music.
excerpt © Sherri Rose-Walker 2012

We’Moon is a collaborative work, one that combines the hearts, minds, and souls of many different women who fill the calendar pages with inspired art and writing. Every year We’Moon reminds us of the breadth of women’s gifts, giving us each the courage to reach deeper and explore our own.

We’Moon 2016 Special Features

We’Moon 2016 is the 35th edition of the datebook, featuring art and writing submitted by women from around the world. 141 contributors, 22 of them from outside the US, take up the Quantum Leap Year theme.

Josphine Wall’s colourful rendition of the mythic Phoenix graces the front cover with a strong image of rebirth from calamity. And Mara Berendt Friedman offers vibrant back cover art, elaborating the transformative power of heart. Miriam Dyak is 2016’s Holy Day writer. Poet extraordinaire, she crafts eight seasonal Holy Day writings which spin a quantum dance of Energy and Light—laced with surprise and joy.

We’Moon documents the celestial and planetary rhythms of every day, keeping us mindful of earth-and-star cycles, and teaching astrology from the ground up. We welcome Rhea Wolf to our astrology “faculty” for 2016. This year she writes the 12 Year-at-a-Glance articles and divines astrological guidance for each sun sign. Gretchen Lawlor offers instruction about Saturn cycles, as she takes her leave from decades of yearly oracular writing for We’Moon.  Heather Roan Robbins explains moon and sun sign definitions, and in her Astro-overview for 2016, takes the long planetary look at a year full of change and challenge. Heather’s starcodes page on our website unfolds daily astrological wisdoms. Sandra Pastorius plays with astrology and quantum physics in her clever musings on the metaphysics of change. Susan Levitt teaches us about Chinese astrology, and about the Year of the Monkey—when “anything can happen. Even the craziest schemes can succeed.” We include an abbreviated rendition of Beate Metz’s writing about the four goddess planets/asteroids, and an article by Mooncat! illuminating each planet’s connection to the Self.

This Quantum Leap Year, We’Moon makes waves, and particles, and wavicles, and . . . .

To order this 2016 Quantum Leap Year datebook, wall calendar, cards, and posters, visit www.wemoon.ws, call toll free 1-877-693-6666, or 541-956-6052, or write to Mother Tongue Ink, PO Box 187, Wolf Creek, OR 97497, USA. Also, see the colour display ad on page 24 of the 21.4 November/December issue of the WHOLifE Journal.