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05/01/2025

Today it is my turn on and I am writing and talking about wassailing and the beauty of ritual and reciprocity in our gardens - the art of saying ‘thank you’ to the trees.
Find it via the link in my bio or via my stories. The first read is free!

05/01/2025

I have been very lucky over the years to have the wonderful support of , who took a liking to my first ever almanac and has invited me back onto her show every year since. This morning between 10 and 1 I am back, talking about my 2025 almanac, and in particular about epiphany and twelfth night.
This time it was pre recorded but here are some pics from our chats over the years, including some snaps by of us having lots of fun at the Good Life Experience in 2019.
Do listen in!

01/01/2025

It’s a brand new year of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co, and we have some very special things lined up for you, including the wonderful as our resident musician, writing and recording an original song for each month of this year! Such a huge treat. I cannot *wait* to hear them all as the year unfolds.
We will also have folklore with our very own Zoe Gilbert, a fairytale from me, and I visit the orchard each month, alongside lots of other goodies.
Find snippets and links in my stories, or find the whole podcast wherever you find your podcasts.
Huge shout out to for making it all happen and to for beautiful production.
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01/01/2025

Now open your new almanacs! ☕️📖

☔️❄️💨JANUARY 💨❄️☔️
1 - New Year’s Day
6 - Epiphany/Three Kings’ Day 🤴🏼🤴🏾🤴🏿
6 - Nollaig na mBan/Women’s Christmas/Little Christmas
7 - Orthodox Christmas Day ☦️
13 - Plough Monday
13 - Lohri
17 - Old Twelfth Night 🍻
25 - Burns Night 🥃
29 - Lunar New Year 🌙
29 - Chinese New Year, year of the Green Wood Snake begins 🐍

And so we begin a new year! If you have my almanac by your side today do take a little time, a cup of coffee, a quiet corner, and sink into the moment with me.

Picture is of The Almanac, a Seasonal Guide to 2025 by me, Lia Leendertz. Accept no substitutes! Illustration is by the wonderful

31/12/2024

The Big Beautiful poem of the year is here! Here are a few snippets…
Every week on my substack, Lia’s Living Almanac, we have a community post in which we all write about the little things we have noticed or done or eaten or smelt (etc) that week, the minutiae of the seasons as they turn. And now I have woven a chosen few of those many, many comments into a sort of poem of the year, and I love it. It makes me nostalgic for the year just passed but also look forward to every month ahead, and their wonderful differences and uniquenesses. It’s a great way to wrap up the year.
Next week we begin it all again for 2025. I would love you to join the Lia’s Living Almanac community and be a part of it. It’s a wonderfully chatty, supportive community of like minded people and just a lovely place to hang out. Find the link via the Linktree in my bio.
See you there x

22/12/2024

I’m on Found Sounds this month! Found Sounds is ’s mini episode of our .co podcast As the Season Turns, which appears half way through the month, and for her December episode I met her at Stanton Drew stone circle in Somerset to talk about the seasons, midwinter and these amazing monuments in our landscape.
Listen now via the ‘As the Season Turns’ link that you will find if you click on the linktree in my bio, or - more simply - on the link in my stories.

15/12/2024

The Almanac 2025: a year of night skies, constellation myths, tides and moons, folklore, celebration cakes, music and megaliths.
Don’t be fooled by my many imitators! I revived the almanac form and I pour my heart into each and every edition and although the format is easy to copy, the passion isn’t.
I utterly love making these guides to the year and I hope you will join me for my eighth edition as we look ahead to 2025 ✨🌙💫 📖

06/12/2024

Competition time! has named The Almanac 2025 one of its Best Books of the year in the nature writing category! And to celebrate they are giving away a Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P OTA telescope 🔭 , with which you can watch the skies through 2025. The theme for my 2025 almanac is ‘ancient astronomy’ so this is all very perfect…

Find the link via the linktree in my bio, or on my stories. All you have to do to enter is become a Waterstones Plus member (it’s free) and y’know…buy my book!
Wishing you good luck and clear skies 🔭✨

04/12/2024

It is my turn on today and I have continued my lunar gardening series and written about the nature and beauty of dormancy in this darkest and stillest of months. Plus a little bonus bit of gardening folklore, the Barbarazweig, for St Barbara’s Day today.
You can try out one article for free. Click on the linktree in my bio and you will find it there, or on the link in my stories 🌝 🌱

03/12/2024

Your moon phases for December
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From my book, The Almanac 2024.
The 2025 edition is out now! Containing the year ahead’s moon phases, meteor showers, sunrises, folklore, recipes, and more.
Find links to buy via the linktree in my bio or visit your local bookshop 📚🎄
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01/12/2024

🎄🎁✨ DECEMBER ✨🎁🎄
1 - Start of meteorological winter
1 - First Sunday in Advent
13 - St Lucia’s Day 🕯️
21 - Winter solstice 🌞
24 - Christmas Eve 🎅🏻
25 - Christmas Day 🎄
25 - Hanukkah 🕎
26 - Boxing Day/St Stephen’s Day 🎁
31 - New Year’s Eve 🍾

December is here! Thank you to those of you who have followed the year through with me and with The Almanac 2024, and please remember even in these busy days to take a moment to sit with a cuppa and enjoy the final chapter, and so to sink into the magical month we find ahead of us 🎄
The next edition, The Almanac 2025, is out now, with a theme of ‘ancient astronomy’ ✨ - megalith of the month, co dtellation myths from around the world, and more - and I look forward to doing it all again with you next year 📖 🌙💫🌞✨

Find links to buy via the linktree link in my bio, or visit your local twinkly Christmassy bookshop 📚🎄✨

26/11/2024

The Almanac 2025 keeping some excellent company in the top 50 of ALL books on Amazon today! Where it is on a Black Friday deal for £7.
*Delighted* to have overtaken Boris Johnson…

14/11/2024

I love the stage of autumn when the trees do this, all skeleton but with the leftover leaves acting as pointillist suggestions of summer tree shape 🍂

11/11/2024

Today is Martinmas, or St Martin’s Day, once known as Old Hallowe’en or Old Hallowmas Eve. It marks the official end to the harvest season and the beginning of the winter revelling season, and is the traditional moment to drink the first wine of the year. Lanterns were lit and paraded and the Martinmas goose eaten.
All the old dates that mark out the turning of the year can be found in my book, The Almanac 2025, out now! Links via the linktree in my bio or via my stories.
🪿 🍷 🕯️ 📚

10/11/2024

The reviews are in! Here’s what people have been saying about The Almanac 2025 📚✨🎄🌙 📚
Find links via the linktree in my bio or via my stories

06/11/2024

Stop doom scrolling! And take a breather to read my first column for , the start of my moon-gardening sow along. I talk about some amazing research I’ve been reading which scientifically tested out traditional lunar knowledge around wood harvesting, and how it has tipped the balance for me into throwing my lot in with this ancestral knowledge. Come along with me and we’ll do it together.
Link is in the linktree in my bio, or via my stories. Hope to see you over there 🌝🌱

02/11/2024

In November’s As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co, we celebrate Samhain and visit the creatures of the ancient woodland as they too close down for winter. We explore fire folklore, from Guy Fawkes to Will o’ the Wisps, and hear the Hopi tale of grandmother spider and the fire. Our resident musicians sing ‘All That You Have Been’, a song for this dark month.
Out now, find it wherever you find your podcasts, and like and subscribe for it to pop up on the first of every month.
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01/11/2024

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Your moon phases for November, waxing up to the Darkest Depths Moon or Mourning Moon on the 15th. The new moon falls today, in Scorpio.
You can have all of this information in your hands for the year ahead with my new book The Almanac, a Seasonal Guide to 2025. Out now, links via the linktree in my bio or via my stories.
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