What happens when an astrologer who doesn't consider herself a gardener decides to just... plant by the moon instead? Her first year, she was giving vegetables away to the whole neighbourhood. Nobody else in Calgary could grow peas. Hers were over her head. That's where this episode starts. Tracy and Lillian are joined by astrologer and Kepler College president Donna Young to dig into lunar gardening — moon phases vs. signs, void of course, the Apogee/Perigee (which most calendars skip entirely), Moon-Saturn aspects, biodynamic gardening, and what ancient Mesopotamian farmers were doing that we've mostly forgotten. It goes to some unexpected places. Birds. The Dust Bowl. Feng shui. A Washington Monument Christmas tree. And a county extension agent with the most practical advice you'll ever hear about when to prune your apple tree.

Timestamps: 0:00 – Introduction 0:28 – Meet Donna: her first garden, no experience, incredible results 2:29 – Peas, bad soil, and what the moon might have done 4:26 – Electional astrology and the garden — every day is an opportunity 5:00 – Solar Fire's garden planting guide and what Lillian found 8:00 – Astrology as the original calendar — Alexandria, Rome, Mesopotamia 12:21 – What the Farmer's Almanac and Llewellyn calendar miss 13:52 – Void of course, infertile signs, and Donna's personal rules 15:00 – Why plants are a better indicator of lunar cycles than people are 16:58 – Moon signs and what to plant when 20:02 – Moon-Saturn conjunction vs. opposition for gardening (from a biodynamic book) 21:11 – Callback to the ensoulment episode: what plants can and can't tell us 24:00 – Spring cleanup, Aries season, and why Donna's timing works 27:08 – Companion planting, succession planting, and seed saving 38:26 – Working within real life — the May long weekend gardening problem 42:00 – Phase vs. sign: which matters more? 43:54 – 200-year garden plans, outer planets, and thinking long-term 47:00 – Planetary hours and the long Edmonton/Calgary summer light advantage 49:00 – Your own chart as a gardening indicator — Donna's Sun in Pisces, Moon in Libra 52:25 – Wrap-up and happy spring

Ensoulment by Andrea Gehrz: https://www.abebooks.com/Ensoulment-Tyre-Porphyry-Andrea-Gehrz/30550416545/bd Biodynamic Gardening: https://www.abebooks.com/9781465429865/Biodynamic-Gardening-Grow-Healthy-Plants-1465429867/plp

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