We are absolutely delighted to announce that on May 10th 2025, Thomas Poppe will be giving a lecture at Satmya. We have been following Johanna & Thomas’s work since we first opened Satmya in 2007. A good client recommended their book Moon Time for better results with gardening and life in general. Their book was life changing and we recommended it to many visitors to Satmya over the years.

• Date: 10th May 2025
• Time: 2.30pm
• Cost: €15 (you will receive a wristband with €10 for the Bealtaine Garden Festival on May 11th)
• Spaces are limited, book online
• Learn more about Thomas

About Johanna Paungger-Poppe & Thomas Poppe

News about the “right time”!

About using the lunar calendar in daily life

Lecture by Thomas Poppe 

In recent years, many people have been able to see for themselves the great benefits of rediscovering the ancient knowledge of lunar rhythms. The books by Johanna Paungger-Poppe and Thomas Poppe have now reached a circulation of over 20 million and have been translated into 31 languages. They are a household name in the German-speaking world. In Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Northern Italy there’s virtually no doctor, osteopath, natural healer, hairdresser, wood merchant, who doesn’t know about their books, many of them using these as reference works. This will be their first public appearance in Ireland. Further info: www.paungger-poppe.com 

Healthy nutrition that is also effortless to use, successful gardening, time-saving housework, the use of remedies, operations, agriculture and forestry – carried out in a non-toxic, nature- and people-friendly way, a career choice based on talents that are actually present but perhaps still hidden, humane building, being healthy and becoming healthy through one’s own efforts – all this and more becomes much easier and sometimes even achievable by acting at the right time. 

All you need is honest information, a little patience, self-confidence and a lunar calendar. There will be no lack of precise information during the lecture. 

You will learn about the influence of lunar rhythms in everyday life, but also about timeless natural laws and rhythms that are indispensable for a healthy life and successful everyday coping. If there is still time, you will hear about the Alpha and Omega types – invaluable information for your own personal healthy diet – and about the “Tyrolean Number Wheel”, a long-forgotten element in our ancestors’ store of knowledge.  

Whether you are a beginner or a “pro” of lunar knowledge – everyone is welcome and can learn something new.

About the authors/speaker
We are the authors of by now 12 books (in the German and 31 other languages) and of 11 different varieties of yearly lunar calendars. 

Book and calendar sales amount to 19 million copies in German, the calendars sell 300.000 copies each year. Foreign language editions listed here: https://www.paungger-poppe.com/de/publikationen/international

Johanna has been born and raised in a Tyrolean mountain farmer family. She belongs to the select few in whose environment a special wisdom was kept alive for centuries, handed down to her in its entirety by her grandfather, a healer and shaman as his vocation would be called today.

After hundreds of lectures on this special wisdom Johanna decided – in an act of self-defense almost – to find someone to help her put this knowledge into writing, mainly to reduce the number of invitations to lecture. There was virtually no information available on her specialty, let alone based on direct experience and everyday practice.

Thomas Poppe, translator and writer, traveler, and Aikido master, had already published some 20 non-fiction works on a variety of subjects, ranging from alternative healing to Eastern Spirituality before he met Johanna. She then took great care to prevent the first book from being „ghost-written “. For years therefore Thomas Poppe practiced the knowledge of timing in his everyday life as a big-city dweller – with convincing success.

And just what is this special wisdom we have published? The success of almost any endeavor not only depends on the availability of the necessary skills and resources but also, very decisively, on its timing. Direct observation and practice led our ancestors to the discovery that numerous natural phenomena are directly related to the phases of the moon and the position of the moon in the Zodiac. The became masters of timing.

Further aspects of Johanna’s knowledge have found extensive treatment in books like “The Code” and “Lebenschance Zahlenrad” (not translated yet). 

• What is your best publicity medium (i.e., where and how do you feel you would best represent your work)?

TV, radio, monthly newspapers, weeklies, lectures – in that order. 

* What strengths do you possess that we can use in promoting your book? Experience in media interviews? Lectures and workshop programs? Acknowledged expertise in the subject matter? Willingness to travel? Please list the following specifics.

Thousands of lectures, hundreds of TV and radio interviews, live radio series, workshops, columns in daily magazines, more than willingness to travel.

• Membership in any significant organizations or associations, including offices held and dates, that may help us develop promotional material or establish your “value” to the media.  

None. Independence is one of our hallmarks.

• Any significant periodicals in which your work (especially related to this book’s subject area) has been published.

All major periodicals in the German language (weeklies, monthlies) as well as periodicals in other languages. Copies available on request. See also Press Corner in our homepage www.paungger-poppe.com 

• Media or broadcast interview programs (or types of programs) that you believe will be particularly interested in this book (including names of personal contacts).

Sorry, no extensive experience in the US media market. Women’s magazines though were particularly interested and successful with stories on our work. Fact is, that wherever we have appeared in person in the German speaking world, sales rise.

• Have you appeared on media shows or in print? Do you have copies of the interview(s)? Do you have contact names and numbers? 

Contact us directly. There are stacks of them. Also videos and audio tapes available in German and English. Also see homepage.

• Organizations (or even types of organizations, such as local study groups) you believe will want to use this book (in bulk purchases) as program resource material (with names of contacts if known).

In Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Northern Italy there’s virtually no doctor, osteopath, natural healer, hairdresser, wood merchant, who doesn’t know about our books. And many of them use them as reference works. 

• Recognized authorities on the book’s subject, matter whom you believe might be willing to read galleys and write comments for publication, including cover and advertising “blurbs” and reviews. Please include addresses, if known, and indicate whether the person is known to you personally.

Sorry, there are no „recognized authorities“ on the subject. It is completely new insofar as our books are based on personal experience. By now methodical scientific research has slowly started, reference available on request. 

• Are you fluent in any languages other than English? Could you effectively participate in that language in foreign media interviews; seminars at international gatherings etc.? Art you able to write in a second language?

Johanna Paungger speaks only German. Thomas Poppe is fluent in German and English and speaks very little French.

• Bookstores or other pertinent sales organizations where you are known and that may be responsive to personal promotional opportunities (book signings lectures, workshops). 

Sorry, don’t know about the US. Barnes & Noble published a hardcover version of our book “Moon Time”. 

Do you have a professional photograph that can be used on the back cover of your book?

Yes. 

About your books in general 

„Why (the consumer) Should Read your Books” In 300 – 500 words.

• What will they do for the reader in practical, immediate terms?

The best doctor is not to need one. The best medicine is not to need it. 

Our books provide a major step forward in managing one’s life more easily, less expensive in all areas. 

Our books will be a cornerstone in the Going Green of the years to come. For Going Green in any walk of life the knowledge contained is indispensable.

We are making available a form of knowledge that will accompany the reader throughout life and smooth his path to direct, personal experience of the factors that strengthen or weaken him physically, mentally, and emotionally – without the need for any detours via the advice of experts and authorities.

Nothing in our books is new. It is age-old knowledge, tried and tested over thousands of years and found to be valid, effective, and healing – natural laws and rhythms which in the space of a few decades we have needlessly forgotten or learnt to ignore: the influence of lunar rhythms and the art of acting at the right moment, bodily rhythms, healthy, nonfanatical nutrition, herbal knowledge. Some of it is not to be found in any textbook and some of it has never been published before. 

Perhaps for this reason one or two pieces of information will sound incredible or even bizarre at first reading – possibly because this is the first time that you have heard about them, or perhaps because they run counter to convictions or arouse prejudices.

And yet every piece of information, every rule, every piece of advice is based on personal experience – not just our own, but that of many people, past and present, who are skilled in the art of timing and healing. Little by little you will be able to share in these experiences yourself, because going about the daily round, trying out the rules in this book, will sharpen your attentiveness to nature and the things that surround us – will open you to hitherto concealed relationships between body, soul, and environment. 

These insights will ultimately lead you beyond rigid laws and bring you nearer to a state which renders you incorruptible by and immune to the countless negative influences around you. Above all, you will be sheltered from the ever-present attempt to keep you in mental or physical dependence.

Inner instinct, observation and direct experience showed our forefathers the way to natural and lunar rhythms, to a knowledge that deserves our grateful acceptance. We propose to acquaint our readers with a portion of this knowledge.

• Are you aware of any similar books?

No. Without exception all books on the subject in German have been plagiarized from our books. The American Old Farmer’s Almanac contains two pages on the subject, it’s “information” is largely not very useful.

• What do you believe distinguishes this book from comparable titles? 

To our knowledge there are no comparable titles based on true personal experience.

• Develop some advertising blurbs. You are the author; you know the book better than anyone else. How will the book be sold? What will motivate people to buy it? 

The success of an intention depends not only on the availability of the necessary skills and resources, but also decisively on the timing of the action. In former times people gathered knowledge of these rules by direct observation. They discovered that numerous natural phenomena are related to the movements of the moon.

Johanna Paungger, one of ten children of a Tyrolean mountain farmer’s family, belongs to the few people in whose environment this knowledge has been kept alive and has been handed down from generation to generation. 

Now for the first time this knowledge is available to us, together with an abundance of tips and advice dealing with almost all the important areas of our daily life: from medicine, to housekeeping and nutrition, to gardening and work on the land. Patience is the only price you have to pay in order to profit by this book. Then it can really become a building block in the foundation for a brighter and greener future.

• Describe the audience, including age group, to whom this book is directed, and why you believe this audience will be responsive to your book. 

Initially most of our readership were women between the ages of 25/30 to 65 simply judging from the audience in our lectures and from the more than 200.000 letters from our readers so far. Slowly the relation is now shifting to a higher percentage of male readers in all age groups.

• Other than through trade or specialty bookstores, how do you believe this audience can best be reached?

Very successful are series of articles in monthly newspapers, each article covering an area of application of this knowledge in daily life.

Ideally, in what context would you like to see your book used?

• University class or seminar.

No. We have immediate and easily verifiable knowledge to offer. Nothing “scientific”, nothing speculative, no need to prove anything.

• Trade outlets reaching millions of people.

Yes. But only after sufficient publicity. 

• As a key book in Wiccan or Pagan circles.

Don’t know. Wiccan and Pagan are virtually unknown in the German book landscape. 

• Workshops or lectures.

Lectures YES! 

Workshops LESS SO! Because they are incredibly exhausting and reach only a select few.  

• Professional applications.

The books have been converted into PC programs. Available on request. 

Finally, tell us about your other publications or worksinprogress.

• List any previously published works, sequentially; with title, publisher, year. 

* “The Power of Timing” (Irisiana-Verlag München 1991)

* “Moon Time” (Goldmann-Verlag München 1993)

* “Alles erlaubt!” (1999 Goldmann-Verlag München)

* „The Lunar Dictionary“ (2000, Irisiana-Verlag)

* „Bauen mit dem Mond“ (2000, Goldmann-Verlag)

* „Die Mondgymnastik“ (2001, Goldmann-Verlag)

* „Der lebendige Garten“ (2004, Goldmann-Verlag)

* „Das Tiroler Zahlenrad“ (2008, Heyne-Verlag)

* „The Moon FAQ” (2010. Goldmann-Verlag)

* „Lebenschance Zahlenrad“ (2010, Heyne-Verlag)  

* „Moon Power“ (2015, Mosaik-Verlag) 

* „Alpha Omega Formel“ (2021, Gräfe & Unzer München) 

* „Espresso mit dem Teufel“ (Thomas Poppe, 2021, Gräfe & Unzer München)

The books are accompanied by 11 different Moon Calendars.

Books marked red are available for the English language. 

Many more subjects are in our minds, a very special series for kids, etc.

Foreword to the American Edition of “The Power of Timing” 

For thousands of years the knowledge of the influence of lunar rhythms has been an established tool that is available to all who are willing to accept it. Countless people in numerous occupational groups had used that knowledge until a little while ago as an indispensable element in their work—from physicians to farmers, from carpenters to architects, hairdressers and on to foresters. After a few decades of falling into disuse many people all over the world today have once again remembered this incalculably valuable inheritance of our forefathers. We are very happy that we are now able to pass this knowledge on to our readers in North America. 

Countless gardeners, farmers, and most of all the multitude of indefatigable “balcony farmers” in the cities have gathered firsthand experience of the great value of living in harmony with the lunar rhythms. They have seen that it is possible to forget pesticides and fertilizers and stop wasting valuable drinking water and still harvest the same or a higher yield at a much higher quality of crops and herbs. That’s what true life-containing food is made of!

Practitioners, physicians, and dentists have seen how working in accordance with the position of the moon proved to be a blessing for their patients and have used this knowledge to explain a great many strange phenomena surrounding therapy and healing processes. Being skilled and well prepared is essential, but our moon calendars are hanging openly on the walls of many medical offices and hospitals to help in choosing the best times for surgeries and therapeutic measures.

There isn’t a single forester or carpenter in our home countries of Germany and Austria who hasn’t heard of this book. They have seen that wood cut at the correct time is far more durable and enables carpenters to work environmentally sound – inside and outside of the house. Wood is no longer corrupted by the poisonous varnishes or protective paints that cause health problems for the inhabitants. It can remain what it is: The most beautiful and healthy building matter nature gives us.

Hairdressers and beauticians have also observed with joy that the application of the moon rhythms was of good service in their professions and they were able to work without using many of their usual products, which contain excessive amounts of chemicals. Natural cosmetics thus get the chance it deserves.

Last but not least, housewives have received the knowledge of the art of moon timing with open arms. Millions today know firsthand what a great little household helper knowledge of the lunar cycles can be, and at no cost with the exception of a little investment in patience! It is the housewives first and foremost who have denied that this knowledge is merely a fashionable trend. They have no need for scientific proof. When it comes to cleaning, half the work and twice the fun speaks for itself. 

This book is ushering in a minor revolution. May the knowledge it contains bring you just as much usefulness and pleasure as it has brought to many people before you and to us. 

Johanna Paungger-Poppe

Thomas Poppe