Burn the Moon Hare!

It is the Autumn Harvest Moon. (Chung Ch’iu) 

Give thanks for your Bountiful Harvest!

In Chinese thought the moon symbolizes the female principle of yin.

Women from each household will place the following on a specially prepared altar:

an image or figure of the Moon Hare

five platters of different fruit and

13 mooncakes (spicy circular cakes that represent the 13 months of the lunar year).

The women light incense, 

approach the altar one by one and bow.

After this  the picture/figure of the Moon Hare is burned.

Its soul is free and

 it returns to the moon.

The Wyrd Kalendar Album - January Artist - Widow's Weeds

Last year we prepared for the publication of the book Wyrd Kalendar...

This year we are making ready an album of  the same name...

This new album will contain 13 tracks - 12 of which will be related to the stories from the book and the month of the year. The album will be released by the very groovy Mega  Dodo (who released Songs from the Black Meadow in 2016). All profits from the album will go to charity.

The artists have been given a month each, a copy of the linked story and Andy Paciorek's picture to give them a starting point and away they go!

We are very proud to reveal that the artist for January is the mysterious folk horror band "Widow's Weeds"with a track called "A Song for  January." Widow's Weeds are the brainchild of Grey Malkin who steered the wonderful band "The Hare and the Moon" through magick mists and ghostly glades until they shuffled off this mortal coil in 2017.

More information about the album and our other monthly artists will be released throughout 2018...

In the meantime enjoy this album from The Hare and the Moon entitled "The Grey Malkin".

Review of Wyrd Kalendar - "Darkly Spun Tales"

"Each darkly spun tale matches with a chosen month of the year, providing a folkloric and portmanteau feel to the book, with Paciorek’s richly detailed and haunting artwork prefacing the individual chapters." - Grey Malkin

We are very proud to announce this lovely review of Wyrd Kalendar from Hare and the Moon's Grey Malkin.

Read it here.