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03/02/202603/02/2026

Synchronicity: Celts And Vikings

(Monday, March 2, 2026) full moon Virgo

I looked up the last name of my great-grandmother Bridget Doyle. Doyle: descendant of Dubhghall, “dark foreigner” or “dark stranger.” The term Dubhghoill referred to Danish Vikings. Fionnghoill (“fair foreigners”) was used to describe light-haired Norwegians. The surname Dubhghall is associated with Viking settlers who integrated into Irish society. Certainly most of my Irish ancestors had jet-black hair, including my mother. Interesting to have this last name when Bridget was born in a territory with many Scandinavian settlers (Minnesota).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle

This lovely story also made me think of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of “Sherlock.” Sherlock seemed to show up in one of my recent dreams.

A distant cousin with the last name of Doyle contacted me via Ancestry.com a few years ago.

03/01/202603/02/2026

2/25/26 Ted Middleton

I am with Deb and Margie. We are riding on a garbage truck. We get off, but need to get back on. (we get on and off the back of the truck). We then get on a large, fancy garbage truck that is like a ferry. We look around. We have our suitcases with us. We go into one room and see a display of pictures of sea animals from San Diego on the wall. Margi has these stones and we try to read her Tarot, but we can’t. There isn’t a book and the stones are not cards!

We are on our way to Siren, Wisconsin. I give Margi and Deb these little, rubber bands for their hair. A couple of girls give us some wrapped presents. We go to dinner. There are a lot of people. I see Ted Middleton. He is young (early 20’s) and I am also. We are nude. We sit in the hallway to the dining room. The other people are not comfortable about us being nude. We are not. Ted and I go into a bedroom. We talk and then sleep. In the morning We touch a bit. I ask him questions about what he does now. I can visualize what he tells me. It is very sweet.

Ted Middleton dreams are a series. I am not sure what they represent. I had a very strong crush on Ted when I was 19 and really until I was 40. It was not reciprocal. Later, when I got together with him, I realized that he would not be a good match for me and that he made everyone feel special. I didn’t really know him.

03/01/2026

Synchronicity: Herbalism

(Sunday, March 1, 2026) waxing gibbous moon Leo

This morning Cullan and I went grocery shopping at Lakewinds Co-op. He bought some supplements and mentioned he could have gone to Present Moment to have the herbalist make a batch for him. I hadn’t thought of Present Moment for a long time, although in my twenties and thirties I visited very often.

This afternoon I watched one of “Danu’s Irish Herb Garden” videos on YouTube (Danu: Irish Mother Goddess). Celtic herbalist Terry Conroy discussed the healing elements of herbs we use for spicing our recipes. And she mentioned Matthew Wood, the famous herbalist who used to live in Maple Plain (close to my Wayzata house) but now lives in Wisconsin. I looked him up again, as I paid a lot of attention to him when he lived in Minnesota. He began studying herbalism at the age of 13, in 1967, The Summer of Love. Someone gave him Carlos Castaneda’s book “The Teachings of Don Juan,” a huge inspiration for him. Matthew got his master’s degree at the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine and began working as an herbalist at Present Moment in 1981.

OK. I have been writing about Carlos Castaneda. And about my dream guide Edie the Herbalist. I need to pay more attention to herbalism in my summer garden. It seems vital at this stage of my life.