In The Biodynamic Book of Moons Dennis Klocek begins by taking the reader through the rhythms and essential growing tasks of the gardener’s year in poetry and prose evocative of the traditional gardening almanac and illustrated by original drawings and woodcuts by the author.
What then unfolds is a unique exploration into the fundamental laws and living activities of the cosmos at work upon the living world of nature. Through understanding these laws and internalizing them within the soul through direct experience, the gardener can bring their humble work in their own garden into harmony with the cosmic events unfolding above, within, and through them.
For the biodynamic gardener this book is an essential practical gardening companion text. Within the biodynamic literary canon it provides a much needed link to the alchemical worldview while finally offering the student of biodynamics the keys to understanding the philosophical concepts foundational to the biodynamic method.
Any grower who enters the garden with an open heart and enquiring mind will find in these pages fertile ground for new soul impulses to flower and enough contemplative insights to cultivate their own inner garden for many seasons to come.
What you will discover in this book…
- How to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs in harmony with the subtle forces and rhythms active in nature
- How to enter into dialogue and co-creation with the 12 beings of the zodiac as they unfold their activities throughout the cycle of the year
- An in-depth explanation of the core alchemical concepts of Salt (Sal), Sulphur (Sulf) and Mercury (Merc) and the Aristotelian Four Elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire as living activities present throughout nature
- An intimate portrait of the different plant families and the living processes at play behind their outer forms
- A sensitive enquiry into the mystery of fertilization as a dynamic relationship between mineral, plant, and animal
- Meditative mandalas decoding the archetypal patterns active in nature
- Weather wisdom encoded in poetic verse introduces the reader to the beings active in the climate
- Poetic verse and illustrations encourage development of the artistic sensibility necessary to harmonize the soul of the reader with the living imaginations manifest in the natural realm
Who is this book for?
- Biodynamic practitioners both new and old will find the much sought after insights pointing to the origin of the biodynamic method
- Seasoned gardeners seeking inspiration and contemplative reflection into the deeper mysteries of nature
- The philosophical in pursuit of a deeper appreciation of the wisdom contained in the alchemical worldview and wisdom traditions of the past
- Goethean scientists wishing to trace the alchemical roots of the Goethean phenomenological method
- Every open-minded, open-hearted gardener wishing to develop a golden thumb and experience a more soulful relationship with nature
