As this season shifts in splendid color taking us into our deep winter, the New Moon in Scorpio arrives on November 4th.
Imagine…you are in the forest deep…with a lighted torch lit by Baba Yaga’s Fire…what are you seeking?
Currently the tale of Baba Yaga stirs my imagination, there are a variety of stories associated with this hag, this Cosmic Crone. Sometimes horrid and awful, sometimes beneficent, her wild ways stimulate inventiveness and mystery. Achieving the impossible our compromised innocent, Vasilisa overcomes the witches’ challenges with her magical doll.
With vivid imagery , natural forces of nature, the Dawn, Day and Sunset are personified by magnificent horseman. And what tale would be a tale unless we had the naughty step mother and step sisters taunting their new sister ?
On that note, I invite you to join in a New Moon Magic Creativity Circle, where you are guided thru creative prompts and conversation to create in your art journals or Cosmic Smash Books, the tale as it relates & inspires you.
Do you live with a Visionary ? Would you be able to recognize the Visionary thinkers around you ? Can you trust a Visionary ? What is a Visionary Person ?
Now, what is a Creative Visionary ? These are the questions I am asking myself this morning. As an Active Dreamer, which for me is, a Lucid Vivid Dreamer, I have always, even as a child , dreamt in visions and landscapes. My visions reveal to me, inform me, and sometimes they even become real in the world.
My mom would call into my room,,, get up get up, time to wake up…I would sleepily murmur wait wait, I have to wait, I am seeing something, I have to finish …shhh, go away….
Artistically, some of that visual information finds its way to the sketch book, into poetry or story…maybe onto a canvas.
The marvel of modern times brings to global society the ability to work with 1 and 0 creating computing language which correlates to our DNA language….whew…that is some creative potential ! We now have video games, we have what Dick Tracy always used….the cell phone…apple watches….streaming tv…due to visionary thinking and then implementation, but it had to have belief and implementation to become real into form.
Well, let’s take those Visionary Impulses and place them in our Cosmic Smash Books…to connect in real time thru the senses to explore our unique symbolic language, thru the mediums of writing, crayons, and paper . To bring into the now, into embodiment. Getting a bit out of must do, must have thinking , into the flow of hmmm, I think I will tear this magazine to shreds and reassemble into a dragon, which may lead to building a fort for your sons that looks like a dragon !
Epiphanies occur in relaxed time/space
Now, imagine the constellation of Virgo…she is illuminated in our September skies. Imagine that her stars are portals to feminine imagination ….. symbolically she resides in the Western Zodiac at this time of year. Each New Moon, is in the native place of that month…ie Leo New Moon when the Sun is in Leo, Cancer New Moon when the Sun is in Cancer….then when the Full Moon rises in Leo, that Full Moon is in its opposite sign, that of Aquarius….and in Virgo, the Full Moon will be in Pisces.
Collectively we are in the great change of ages…ok, what do we do with that on a personal level ? A community level ? I don’t know…I am just asking the question…
What if, the New Moons can reveal more information to us as we journey thru these changes ? What if we approach this deep dark that come with this cycle and take it more deeply into our BodyMind ? What if we created a personal culture of inquiry and creative response thru creative practice ?
What if our creative practices influenced our family and neighborhoods , ultimately our larger countries in the most positive of ways, leading to innovation, empowerment & expression, what if we could find our best voices thru the gentle acts of artmaking ?
What if allowing the quiet of the concentrated dark revealed that perhaps darkness is tightly bundled light that will inform and come to illumination and fruition in the light of the Full Moons?
This September, I am choosing to create with the Constellation of Virgo as a portal, as a connection to the Wisdom Goddess Matrix….back to the Lion’s Gate in August…imagine that the doors opened to the Archetypal energy of the Mother Matrix…that of Isis, Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene… and then now….the doors open even wider to bring more connection to the Shekinah & Sophia the Wisdom Goddess ?
What if….as this last quarter of 2021 were the best ever in terms of personal illumination, thru the journey of Shadow to Light…what if every Shadow was a Light ? What if the journey into the New Moons , in October , November, December, were to reveal to you more of your inner landscapes as seeding potentials into the future times ?
It’s been an unusually long and oddly interesting week, for me, I am happy that it is Friday ~
This Sunday , the New Moon reaveals herself thru the Lion’s Gate. I am planning a Cosmic Smash Book Evening to create in my book, creating Alchemical Visions for the future.
Hope that you can join me.
There will be more stories to share about this cultural event.
When I was young, if I can recall that far back, I think that I thought all was possible. The world was full of magical wonder, my parents were larger than life…my story as I learned later was even larger than life, for me anyway.
My Mom was pure enchantment. There are more story lines wrapped around her aura and mine, those are for another time. I recall how much she enjoyed the material world…books, books, books, dresses, fine china, good furniture. excellent design and Art.
I was about 9 years old when she got me my first calendar book which featured many masters, Picasso, Monet, Degas, Kandinsky… I wanted to be one of them…from that age. When I was even younger, she brought me all sorts of language books…I also wanted to be multi lingual….
Seated Harlequin Picasso Metropolitan Museum of Art
In school, 1967 we learned a bit about drawing, I recall collaging Veruschuka…her image had been on Life Magazine…..( mom adored magazines ) I cut the image in half and drew her in pencil on the other side…Perhaps as any curious 10 year old does…I moved on into Brownies , Girl Scouts…etc… When I tried to draw again…I couldn’t make anything look real. Every attempt was abstract and bizarre…
And the story continues, Art, Art Making, developing confidence, continuing exploration, mistake making…Art History, trying to find Women in the Arts, which now is much easier than in 1970’s….
This weekend in my Moon Wisdom group, we gathered in Circle, talked story, shared , drew animal totem cards and laughed, cried and created. In my personal creative practice, I am in a course exploring Lost Child Archetypes. I was having trouble coaxing them into presence…collage is the medium used as well… as I am the hostess of the Moon Wisdom Circle…I am present for all 6 hours of creating…this devotion builds focus as I create more pages…asked more questions…guess what, a Lost Child revealed herself…the one that enjoys water, Summer and fun even as her older self reaches for rungs on the ladder.
I discovered the quilting genius of artist Crisar Bono
Our gifts of art and wisdom inspire one another…the times are more than interesting..may your gifts be shared widely and your devotion to your passions continue.
Each Morning I awaken with many thoughts or lyrics singing across my mind. Does this happen for you ? These past months the songs activate memories, whether long ago or the recent past. This Summer I am most grateful for the return of songbirds. A family of finches has made their home in hanging lanterns on my porch, even when the sun’s hot heat is beaming on them, they rest and pause during the afternoons. Their morning song merge with my imaginal songs as the day begins.
I discovered an abandoned birdbath in the backyard and relocated it to the front, where now the birds can play and drink more easily. My cats, Gigi & Cookie observe the birds quite closely as if they are watching tv screen. The weeping willow across the street was removed last week, it stood there so courageous in its nakedness this year, it had died during the winter…now that it is gone, I marvel that it was even there…I miss her swaying branches of sparkling leaves.
Still in shock over the massive changes that we are collectively experiencing, these simple pleasures of birdsong and memorable soundtracks bring comfort. As stepping into each day feels, well, different.
This week I am contemplating 31st Hexagram. The 31st Hexagram is called Mutual Attraction. If I usually have an idea when I start my explorations into the rabbit hole that is the I Ching/Gene Keys/Human Design archetypal world, that I “know” what I am choosing to study, I soon discover that….
No, I don’t .
If I approach with beginners mind I will find that I will be surprised.
According to Master Huang-Ching Ni: Guidance of the 31
Guidance: ” Mutual Attraction brings joyful love. One will benefit by being upright and persistent. Marriage brings good fortune” Lake is above Mountain, Mountain is the youngest son of Nature. Lake is the youngest daughter. Therefore mutual attraction of love occurs naturally. Lake represents Gentleness. Mountain represents strength and firmness” Lake’s movement is downward and Mountains is ascending. They meet in a movement of Communion, while each retains their natural characteristics” he goes on to say ” The ancient sages called this interaction “to touch the heart”
The Lines of this Hexagram resonate to our forms:
“Good Fortune will result from remaining centered”
Line One: “Attraction begins at the toes
Line Two: “Attraction reaches the calf: disturbing, Now is the time to remain calm”
Line Three: “Attraction reaches the thigh. One who is too anxious and responds quickly meets trouble”
Line Four: “Attraction reached the heart. A correct response occurs and remorse disappears.”
Line Five: “Attraction reaches the upper back. Neither response nor trouble”
Line Six: ” Attraction reached the mouth. Conversation is brought about.”
Now this journey leads me to the Gene Keys, where the Gift of the 31st Key ( Hexagram) is called Leadership, truthfully, I am not to clear on how the Mountain and the Lake meet here in the ” Key of Sounding Your Inner Truth” within exploration of this Gene Key. What I am imagining within, is that the flow of receptivity between strength and gentleness takes us to a place of ebb and flow, give and take. Human Design identifies this as a Gate, the Gate of Leading. Shall we lead with our hearts ? Shall we lead with our Minds ? How shall we balance the two ?
I began to this blog post with a title, Feminine Leadership., perhaps, it still is…”Feminine Leadership to Touch the Heart”. I enjoy exploring and contemplating Wisdom teachings across time to find, discover, rediscover my truths and to jog my thinking.
You are welcome to join me this Saturday as I visually explore these questions in my Cosmic Smash Book
Along the Creative Path, Artists meander, linger, emulate, learn, express….stumble, discover, reveal , complete…and repeat.
This Friday Evening July 2nd, Celebrating Frida event ( Free ) and on Saturday, July 3rd, a painting workshop delivered in two sessions. You will discover that creating in two sessions activates and inspires more of the Muse !
Thru the month of July, you are invited to join me energetically and sometimes online in the discovery of iconic energies that we find along the Creative Path. This month I am following the spirited icon known as Frida Kahlo.
To prepare for the journey ~
Suggestions :
Go wild and google Frida Kahlo , find her images, photos and paintings on Pinterest too !
Over these next few days, attune yourself to your environment, to see what shows up…what synchronicities are aligned with the discovery of yourself with Frida ?
Prepare an inspirational Altar for your Creative Self and Frida.
Begin a visual and written journal dedicated to this month.
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