I’ve rediscovered Summer , in all surprise, as the transformation of our world meets its edges, I’ve rediscovered Summer. I am beyond grateful. Each day brings gifts of heat, insects, temperature plunges, temperature rises all across our planet, even in the recent daily disasters…
I have recreated a reconnection to Summer. This Michigan Summer is uniquely opposite of the Southwest, and tho I long for the the vistas and sharp air of Northern New Mexico…Michigan has reconnected me to nature, in a restorative way. My inner wisdom whispers that befriending where we are at is a wise step.
A swarm of no-see-ms and mosquitoes bit me in what felt like a thousand places, the welts truly itched and lingered. Regardless, the nymph spirits of forest and rivers have blessed my Spirit. Today, a shocking rainfall poured out of the misty skies, a little delay in playing outdoors for now.
Last month I had the pleasure of guiding art making at the Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center for a budding group of young creatives. I’m so proud of them. Expressive Art is so important as an act of personal wellness and inner connection, allows for letting our left brain and computer “Borg” brian to relax a bit.
What else is happening ? I am reminded of our childhood back to school assignments…What I did on my Summer Vacation….well, I painted in Legend…at Musea School for Intentional Creativity, it was an incredible experience. My Legendary Muse is a work in progress, She carries an old soul feeling for me. I learned so much these past months, I had let my painting pause whilst I played with AI and Procreate, I always water color but it is good to get back to my golden acrylic paint and brush.
I’d like to thank all creatives that that joined in Full Moon Wisdom & Lion’s Gate Circle this month, it feels good to get back into the practice of intentionally contemplating image and watching what emerges !
My joy overflows in daily discovery of the variety of greens that grace the outlying landscapes and neighborhoods.
Today I discovered that wild violets dapple the lawns in purple clusters.
Magnolia blossoms now flutter to the grounds as the fruit trees burst in full blossom splendorMay has unfolded under the watchful gaze of the Bull gracing us with Beltane, a Solar Eclipse with a dance of surprise and wonder of so many celestial bodies all the while the grace of the seven sisters has blessed and guided us.
While centering myself today, to create my calendar and New Moon Class announcement, I was following my inner voice.
My first inner message was to take a morning walk, then I was to settle in at my desk. Well, you know that’s not quite what happened.
I have a good friend who has a query in her healing work…”What want’s to happen ?” Well, what wanted to happen was to read my emails, which let to thinking about sending out my community email, which led to looking at images, which led to finding that I was choosing a lot of blue and gold images…and then…as tracking would have it, I discovered this image from Nasa of the planet Mercury courtesy Wikimedia Commons
“This mosaic of the Caloris basin has a monochrome mosaic from a previous post overlaid with an enhanced-color composite. The colour mosaic was created using photos taken when the spacecraft and the Sun were both overhead, which are the ideal circumstances for detecting brightness fluctuations.”
I was surprised to learn that Mercury is never seen in the dark of the night as he rises and sets within a few hours of the Sun. Historically he once was called Apollo, rising with the sun and Hermes ( classic Greek) setting with the Sun. He becomes Mercury in Roman culture.
Classic Mercury
“The cult of Mercury is ancient, and tradition has it that his temple on the Aventine Hill in Rome was dedicated in 495 BCE. There Mercury was associated with Maia, who became identified as his mother through her association with the Greek Maia, one of the Pleiades, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus; likewise, because of that Greek connection, Mercury was considered the son of Jupiter. Both Mercury and Maia were honoured in the Mercuralia festival on May 15, the dedication day of Mercury’s temple on the Aventine.” excerpt from the encylopedia Britannica
We gather a few days early in our creative circle to keep our weekend open for wonderment.
This month’s New Moon, travels quickly from Taurus to Gemini
5/18 Moon in Taurus Gate 27 Food of the Gods
5/19 Moon in Taurus Gate 23 Alchemy of Simplicity.
5/20, Rubbing horns to feathers from Gate 23 Gate of Simplicity to Gate 20 The Sacred Om Moon shifts from Taurus to Geminii
5/21 Moon is in Gemini holding their own in Gate 35 Wormholes and Miracles
5/22 Moon Gate 12 Gemini
5/22 The Sun shifts from Taurus into Gemini as communication is happening in a big way as their degrees travel thru the Sun’s Gate of Exquisiteness in Taurus into the 20th Gate of the Sacred Om to meet the Moon in so much possibility.
The magical sign of the Messenger blesses the Sun on 5/22 in Gate 20 The Sacred Om herself, and the Moon meets her that day while in Gate 12 Pure Heart , as a Gift of Discrimination, as the planet Mercury rules the sign of Gemini, our Star will be experiencing Mercury as it’s guiding planet.
Hermes/Mercury carries quite a role as his mythological persona is blessed to travel between the worlds with winged sandals.
He engages in quite a few plots and stories with heavenly beings and their myths. He carries a caduceus as a symbol of peace once symbolically represented with olive branches and garlands of ribbons.
Fleet of foot, clever, known to be a trickster and communicator. He even influences the chemical symbol of mercury. Hg, derived from the Latin name for the element, hydrargyrum–literally, liquid silver.
“The Talaria of Mercury (Latin: tālāria or The Winged Sandals of HermesAncient Greek: πτηνοπέδῑλος, ptēnopédilos or πτερόεντα πέδιλα, pteróenta pédila) are winged sandals, a symbol of the Greek messenger god Hermes (Roman equivalent Mercury). They were said to be made by the god Hephaestus of imperishable gold and they flew the god as swift as any bird.” excerpt Wikipedia
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Again, the violet bows to the lily. Again, the rose is tearing off her gown!
The green ones have come from the other world, tipsy like the breeze up to some new foolishness.
Again, near the top of the mountain the anemone’s sweet features appear.
The hyacinth speaks formally to the jasmine, “Peace be with you.” “And peace to you, lad! Come walk with me in this meadow.”
Again, there are sufis everywhere!
The bud is shy, but the wind removes her veil suddenly, “My friend!”
The Friend is here like water in the stream, like a lotus on the water.
The narcissus winks at the wisteria, “Whenever you say.”
And the clove to the willow, “You are the one I hope for.” The willow replies, “Consider these chambers of mine yours. Welcome!”
The apple, “Orange, why the frown?” “So that those who mean harm will not see my beauty.”
The ringdove comes asking, “Where, where is the Friend?”
With one note the nightingale indicates the rose.
Again, the season of Spring has come and a spring-source rises under everything, a moon sliding from the shadows.
Many things must be left unsaid, because it’s late, but whatever conversation we haven’t had tonight, we’ll have tomorrow.
(translation by Coleman Barks)
We are creating a few days ahead of when energies align per ephemeris on 5/20 when the Moon will meet the Sun. The New Moon in the sky is actually in Taurus on 5/19/2023, but my creative self wants to explore the Planet Mercury…and you know , the Muse will have her way.
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The Pleiades, known as the Seven Sisters, bless us with their presence as springtime skies twinkle in resonance with Venus in a dance with the Twins, Gemini. Our sacred voice, unique & ever present is enhanced within the dark nights prior to the birth of the New Moon’s field of becoming.
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We shall ponder the myths of Taurus; fertile, abundant, sensuous.
One thing I know for sure, it is all Messy. No way around it, more simple, more mess
I have a curious even grasping mind, I want to know and understand many topics. I see them as interrelated elements to a whole. The study of such leads to more messy bits.
Now, oddly enough that Human Design training and study all comes back to haunt.
For instance, I want to do things, well and right…right a long time ago meant, correct…I think social conditioning placed a veil over my thinking mind, I’ve really become stuck in getting things “right”. Doing things “well” , what does that even mean ? I often find that rut within where I get stuck doing it right…or thinking it should be other than it is.
Now, I’ve taken a leap into Web-3 spaces, probably due to the fact that I get bored and the winter nights are long plus I have a vision of something that has tugged at my imagination for years. But, what am I committed to ?
Can you feel the trend here ? I may be about to go into some free flowing swirl writing. If you’ve caught on to my swirl writing , it’s about free flow and connecting the dots of the inner conversation, yet there may not be any seemingly connected dots, therefore you’ve accomplished getting your thoughts out and hopefully feel expressed and perhaps a solution has risen off the pages.
I can take that energy into an altered book, as a page and work it imaginally ( is there such a word ? )
Social Media = Messy Website=Messy Art=Messy
And you can pretty much bet, that if it is Messy, it is also Complicated, which indeed may stem from Chaos.
Chaos, a truly feminine expression can lead to impeccable innovative applications. ie: a chaotic art table full of paints, paper, materials leads to a contained imaginative sketch or collage, etc.
More messy bits, how to market your talents ? That’s a question I ask myself. I really don’t have an answer. For instance: I would like to sell my paintings to collectors, this does happen occasionally but my question is am I doing it right or well ? hmmm, a wise man would say, look at the results. But, I don’t want to do it conventionally, ie, set up a pretty website shop, blah blah blah…I have tried for years and it doesn’t feel right. Which leads to the thoughts of how unique each of us are…or is it how unique each of us is… ? I have an ongoing disagreement with grammar and syntax.
I think also that I have an ongoing debate with all these technical digital tools as well. Now there is Substack, yup, I have that one too…what and how I am going to play over there ?
This may be a many part conversation with my Messy Muse. Recently thru synchronicity, I discovered another aspect Muse, she is the Enchanted Muse. , she seems to know what she is doing in here arena over in the Web3 landscape, more to follow on her …
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Spring of 2023 marks a new beginning, a fresh threshold to cross over within the framework of wonder and mystery. I invite you on a monthly journey in the darkened fields of the New Moon Becoming
Under the guidance Star Fields as well as the Sign of the Moon…. guided by totems and oracles, ancient wisdom with a contemporary touch we shall make creative pages of our unique vision and story
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Class dates will flow to the Moon’s Cycle, while a wee bit inconvenient for our linear schedules, following her rhythm supports our attuning to natural cycles.
The mythic nature of star lore continues to capture my imagination, sometimes new AI technology does too! And this pondering of stars, Pisces, fish and our cultural spin is taking an interesting turn as I am swirl writing again.
On the 18th our Sun entered Pisces, some say that at 0 degrees Pisces marks the beginning now of the Aquarian age. We certainly are in motion of moving times and events. Days so full of creative options and stimulation that is may be challenging to center into the “Now”.
It seems that embracing acceptance of the moment anchors a core presence. Each inhale inviting a space in between the known and unknown, exhale to find yourself in the next Now moment.
“We breathe in and out about 22,000 times a day. We are powered by breathing. Our lungs fuel us with oxygen, our body’s life-sustaining gas. Our lungs breathe in air, then remove the oxygen and pass it through our bloodstream, where it’s carried off to the tissues and organs that allow us to walk, talk, and move. ” https://www.lung.ca
As we have entered the sign of Pisces, naturally a question arises, How do fish breath ? https://www.livescience.com/how-do-fish-breathe Yes, they have gils, hmmm, how does a mermaid breathe ?
Lungs are said to be the organ of grief, lungs massage the heart, these organs have quite a relationship of give and take, Gemini rules the Lungs, Leo the Heart and Pisces the Feet. The medicine way says that we heal thru our feet…imagine that your feet have a soulful (soleful) relationship with your heart and breath, how present are you in your feet ?
When your mermaid self transforms to walk on land She must become present in her feet, more purposeful and connected to terra firma, her gils more than likely undergo a metamorphoses for land breathing… How is your land breath ?
Join me on Monday for a bit of Swirl Writing in our Creative Pages, taking the form of journal, altared book or Cosmic SmashBook, Visually explore how your are landing in and on your feet….or taking to the waters with a mermaids tail…
Swirl writing allows space for pop up thoughts, seemingly unrelated,
grammatically challenging yet important creative journey play.
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