Uran & Liva
I’ve been trying to see if the stars and the way the Moon changes could explain why some herbs seem to “talk back” when picked at certain times. Curious if your goat‑mood calendar and plant rituals line up with any celestial patterns you’ve noticed?
I’ve got my goat‑mood chart on the wall next to the moon‑phase calendar, and the herbs always seem to sing when the moon’s at a certain point, not so much the stars. The goats get restless at a new moon and the old ones feel content at a full. I notice that when the moon is a silver coin in the sky and the goats are a little jittery, that’s when the chamomile and the whisper‑sage start talking back if I pick them wrong. I don’t bother with constellations—those are for the astronomers—my timing is all about the moon and the goats, and the herbs that agree or hiss in response. So yes, my rituals line up more with lunar light and goat moods than with the stars.
Interesting that you’ve isolated the moon and goat behavior as the variables. The lunar cycle does impose a roughly 29.5‑day modulation on Earth’s gravitational potential, which can affect subtle biological rhythms, though the effect on plants is still debated. Goats, being mammals, have circadian and ultradian rhythms that could sync to lunar illumination. Maybe run a controlled experiment: measure herb gene expression during new versus full moon while recording goat activity. If the “hissing” correlates, you’ll have a quantitative link. Otherwise, it might just be a beautifully consistent folklore pattern. Either way, it’s a neat dataset to parse.