The Leveret: June 2026

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Welcoming the Summer Solstice

Image: Wendy Andrew (from her book Luna Moon Hare: A Magical Journey with the Goddess.

See also the previous posts:
• Welcoming the Summer Solstice (2025)
• A Summer Blessing
• Hare in Summer Field
• Summer Hare
• Summer Boy

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Friday, June 12, 2026

The Portal

~The Glittering Fox.

See also the previous posts:
• Magical Creatures
• Sacred Glade
• Totems of Mystery and Misunderstanding
• Creature of Mystery, Creature of Magic
• The Hare-Witch
• Symbol of Enlightenment
• Sacred

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Morning Coffee

See also the previous posts:
• Morning Coffee I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII
• Mon Bel Amie – May 11, 2015

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

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"Like a hare, springing erect and bounding exuberantly across a dew-kissed field, the beauty and energy of the aroused male embodies the burgeoning life force often associated with spring. After all, the hare is symbolic of natural phenomena that connote actions of the aroused male: the rising sun, the coming spring. In folklore, art and dreams, hares herald great bursts of energy and creativity. They are often thought to be touched by divine madness, by a spirit of anarchy that overturns dogmatic tradition and restrictions. They are tricksters, offering us new ways of seeing and being in the world. They are emblems of the integration of body and soul."

– The Leveret
Body and Soul

"In many mythic traditions, [hares] were archetypal symbols of femininity, associated with the lunar cycle, fertility, longevity, and rebirth. But if we dig a little deeper into their stories we find that they are also contradictory, paradoxical creatures: symbols of both cleverness and foolishness, of femininity and androgyny, of cowardice and courage, of rampant sexuality and virginal purity. In some lands, Hare is the messenger of the Great Goddess, moving by moonlight between the human world and the realm of the gods; in other lands he is a god himself, wily deceiver and sacred world creator rolled into one."

– Terri Windling
The Symbolism of Rabbits and Hares

"The [medieval] bestiarists [those who named and attributed human characteristics to animals] deemed the hare’s sex to be ambiguous, and its mode of reproduction strange. They included the hare in a group of several beasts that they asserted had been declared unclean in the Mosaic law because of their alleged sexual deviance . . . Moses Azikri (1533-1600) wrote that one who is involved in homosexual relations is reincarnated as a hare."

– Marc Michael Epstein
Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature

“Hares” by Carry Akroyd