The Reed Celtic Month starts on 28 October and ends the 24 November. This lunar month offers the energy to take distance with the outside world enabling deeper connection with our inner world and our ancestors.

All Festivities under the Reed Moon are linked to death and rebirth. The celtic tradition of Samhain, meaning literally “summer’s end” corresponds to the end of the harvest that marks the end of celtic year, and the start of a new year with the entering in the dark season. The veil between the worlds is thinner, enabling live and death to connect at a deeper level. In other regions, we celebrate “dia de la muerte” in Spanish and la “Toussaint” in French. It is the occasion to celebrate our ancestors, wash and decorate their tombs, talk about them, celebrate them, inviting them to be present in our life.

The Reed Month is also the time to let all the battles go and gain some insight of the year that has been.

Reed is a common name for several tall, grass-lie plants of wetlands, so they are may species. Common Read is Phragmites australis derived from the name φραγμóς meaning “barrier, palisade, fence”. Reed is associated with water: it grows in wet and swampy soils and to air.

Reeds spread in three ways: by seed, vertically by rhizomes and horizontally by suckers

Signature

At first, leaves emerge in the form of sword blades, linear, slightly wavy at the edges. Here we already recognize its aerial signature, the preferred space of the soul. Then its floral stalk rises with disconcerting ease towards this privileged azure because it benefits from the light reflected by the surface of the water.

Meditation

Here is a little meditation in the middle of the reeds:

May I be as resistant as the Reed
having his feet in the cold water and in the ice
May I be as flexibel as the Reed
that is bending in the wind
May I receive all the sun, and the reflexion of the sun,
to have even more light in me
May I sing and dance with birds coming near me
May I let things go and let it be as it is

Reed is also used in phytoremediation to clean industrial polluted grounds.