Friday 14 August 2015

New Hazel Moon Dreamboard

There is a definite autumnal feel in the air, and some of the trees' leaves are turning... I can sense the Presence of my favourite season and it's appearing on my dreamboard as we welcome the deep wisdom of the New Hazel Moon :)


Left-hand page


Two old Papaya Art planner pages set the scene, plus the words 'Recovering a Sense of Abundance'. Then a page from an old Susan Seddon Boulet diary with the image 'Northern Lights' (1990) and this quote from a favourite lady: 


Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart

And two magazine images and the words 'Trust your intuition', 'Inner Wisdom', 'Tree of Knowledge' - messages from the Hazel tree.

Right-hand page



A favourite We'Moon diary page, I've been saving for a rainy day (like today!), with a wonderful poem by Caitlin Chero (2009), and the image Ocean Sanctuary by Susan Lirakis (2008):
Dusty cobblestones glow in the darkness
I walk out thinking the moon is illuminating them
but the sky is only pinkness
A city engulfed in its own smog and light
Red sky prophesies say this is the end of days
A lone frog singing says the days will last
Outside I am overcome
Inside I am too big for my own cage
Shining intensity at my own smog
It glows too brightly
to see the moon
or stars beyond
I wait for a shift
For things to end
Or for a miracle
that will come
and clean everything
Like the rain
the frog is calling.

A lovely autumnal image from an old Toast catalogue and a postcard I designed and had printed for an art challenge a few years ago which reads:
With every step
I take inside,
Truth comes closer.

A gorgeous image of a wooden stile from County Living and the words Choose with no regret, two wee stickers - one saying 'sanctuary', the other, 'believe', a pensive Toast model and finally the wonderful words The Journey Begins.

I've always seen September as the month of possibilities, the beginning of a new school year, and with this New Hazel Moon, I sense the beginnings of an adventure, a fluttering of anticipation, which I think is permeating this dreamboard...

I'd love to know what you see/feel when you look at it :)



7 comments:

  1. It looks to me like a transition from summer on the left to more muted autumn on the right. I love autumn but I don't yet feel we've had summer!

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    1. You're so right, Alison, I didn't see it when I put it together... I do love that folk see things I don't :) xx

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  2. Hi Claire, gorgeous pages as usual, new moon and full moon, I have to check your posts as fast as I can. Love to see your pages, this time the words got my attention more than the images, "Go slow and choose with no regret", I need them, I'll copy in my journal. Lovely new moon for you, and fall is on this way here too!

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    1. Those words stood out for me too Elizabeth, as did the stile photo... I feel I'm off somewhere, just don't know where yet :) xx

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  3. Claire, this is lovely. I would love to have your stash of images. I need to make mine today and get it posted.

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    1. It's only taken a decade of not throwing stuff away, Kate!! :) Looking forward to seeing yours xxxx

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  4. The words "New Hazel Moon" have a lovely energy to them. Very fitting for the start of an adventure! :)

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