🌕 One Moon. One Earth. One People. July 12, 2025
- Michael Jones
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Cycles, clarity, and remembering what we already knew.
Not too long ago, the July full moon was honored across cultures—each name revealing how people once lived in rhythm with land and season. Not aiming to control it. Just living alongside it.
🌕 Buck Moon – Algonquin tribes (North America)
When male deer begin to grow antlers—symbolizing strength and regeneration.
🌕 Thunder Moon – North American / Farmer’s Almanac traditions
Marked by frequent summer storms and powerful seasonal shifts.
🌕 Hay Moon – Anglo-European agrarian calendars
Aligned with the midsummer hay harvest—rolled bales on sunlit hills.
🌕 Mead Moon (Honey Moon) – Celtic and Wiccan traditions
A time of community celebration, sweetness, and full hives.
🌕 Wyrt Moon (Herb Moon) – Old English and Celtic lore
The peak moment to gather healing herbs and medicinal plants under moonlight.
🌕 Guru Purnima (Guru Moon) – Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions
Honoring spiritual teachers and guides, renewing clarity and gratitude.
🌕 Salmon Moon – Coastal Indigenous peoples (Pacific North America)
Marking the sacred return of salmon—feeding ecosystems and traditions alike.
In many places, these cycles are more symbolic than lived.
But then again—not everywhere.
In the dry hills of Terra Alta, Catalonia, I’ve worked closely with farmers and locals who still move with the moon. Off-grid. Intentional. Land-based.
I remember one friend in particular who shared the importance of timing—of planting or collecting certain medicinal plants during specific moons, under their light, for peak potency.
They don’t speak of this as past knowledge.
They live it. Or aim to.
They are trying, deliberately, to remain in tune with the natural systems that surround them.
This kind of indigenous knowledge—though sometimes seemingly lost—is not.
And I’d argue it’s gaining traction again.
Through science. Through recognition in academic circles.
Through the realization that these techniques were never outdated. They were just ignored.
We must continue on that track.
Not back in time—
Back into rhythm.
Back into humility.
Back into systems that work because they were never designed to be conquered.
Let’s be blunt. Let’s get real.
🌍 The Earth’s temperature has changed.
Scientists are aligned.
We lived in the Holocene (~11,700 years of unusually stable climate conditions)—a period that made agriculture, cities, and society possible.
Essentially, all of human civilization.
Now, we have entered the Anthropocene—a geological epoch defined by human disruption of planetary systems and thresholds.
This isn’t opinion.
This is data.
This is geology.
This is the scientific community.
This is the Club of Rome.
This is Earth4All.
This is the reality of our time.
This is the reality of our lives.
And because that is true—and it is—we must get serious about becoming more resilient.
That means rooting ourselves within ecological boundaries.
Ending the fantasy of endless extraction.
Choosing to live within natural limits.
Whether that means eating fruits in season or simply consuming less.
Climate change gets abstract fast.
The numbers are too large. The timelines too far.
Like trying to count the stars in the sky—
(if you’re lucky enough to still see them).
So I return to a passage from The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles.
A reflection that lives with me—especially on full moon nights like this.
“Because we don’t know when we will die,
we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
Yet everything happens only a certain number of times,
and a very small number really…
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?
Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
— Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (1949)
Think about that.
Not endless. Not infinite.
Just perhaps twenty more full moons that you’ll really stop and notice.
That you’ll be present for.
That you’ll remember.
We talk about tipping points.
PPM.
Heat waves.
Flood metrics.
But what we also need—alongside that—is presence.
Measurable moments.
Moments that count.
So here’s the update:
We’re not winding down.
We’re easing up our sprint—and moving into stride.
Why? Because the groundwork is finally in place.
The tools are built.
The pilots are scoped.
The partnerships are forming.
Now, it’s about steadiness. Delivery. Depth.
We’re accelerating and growing with precision, care, and deep intent.
Our platform is open source.
We don’t just tolerate competition—we encourage it.
We relish seeing others use, adapt, and build on our model.
There are 8 billion of us.
No one is fixing this alone.
Whatever your work—climate, food systems, education, equity—
If it overlaps with ours, reach out.
If your model mirrors ours, keep going.
If you’re using the same tools, let’s talk.
We want to support you.
We want your support.
We want to build relationships grounded in reality and shared purpose.
Bandwidth is real.
But so is intention.
If anything here resonates, or if you have a story to share—
I want to hear it.
And this full moon—
Be aware. Be aligned. Be well.
With care,
Michael & the AgroReGenerations team
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