Moon dreaming for introspection

Published date26 January 2023
Publication titleGuardian, The
By Dr Hinemoa Elder, Penguin Random House, $30

This compact little book is a daily wisdom guided by Hina, the Māori moon goddess, and its author Dr Hinemoa Elder is already well known as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a writer of Māori wisdom.

The Māori lunar rotation has 30 different names and this outlines ancestral knowledge about what the faces of Hina mean. There’s a circular ātaahua Okoro lunar calendar to refer to, which is just as well as it’s pretty complicated. Elder brings a personal perspective to each phase, asking...

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