Lunar Datebook

Episode 31- February 1, 2015 How do the Chinese introduce their babies to the world?  Host Jennifer Ellsworth explains a traditional Full Moon Celebration and reads a short story about an aging woman with one last battle in her:  "Burdock War." "The war declaration came the first day of February.  I was sitting alongside the wood stove waiting until it was time to make my biscuits, staring down along the pasture to the orchard.  The pasture was scattered with snow-covered people...." Moon Astrology:  Full Moon Tuesday in Leo:  Come Alive! Red egg and ginger party, baby head shaving and a restorative confinement.