Full Ivy Moon Dreamboard

What a busy week... 

October is ending with quite a flourish - TWO guest blog posts (last Friday and Saturday), learning Tarot (will post tomorrow), Hallowmas/Samhain festivities this coming Saturday and on Sunday I begin NaNoWriMo!

All illuminated by a beautifully bright Full Hunter's Moon (which, once again, I cannot see - SO much low cloud/mist here... ho hum :/) Thankfully I don't have to see it to feel it!

Left-hand page

Top left is a great scrapbooking paper from my stash, on which I've stuck some smaller elements.

The words are clipped from this year's We'Moon diary:

May you say yes

to the adventures

that scare you 

and emerge

from the darkness

transformed.

(excerpt Caitlin Chero 2010)

Just perfect for me as I prepare to write a novel in the month of November!

Next to this is a wee Papaya Art image and the Temperance Tarot card. She fair leaped out of the drawer - clearly I need to balance excitement and fear, light and dark, rest and work!

At the bottom of the page are two pieces from an old We'Moon diary, where the words and image are just perfect:

Unfolding

How long will it take 

to become snow    the lattice

of water frozen into flower?

How long to become rock

solid    unnoticed support

for the feet?    How long

to be tree    rooted

swaying for centuries?

To simply breathe and see

a snare for the tangle it is

at the moment    To not

constantly wind back

what has lost its way

but to sit with

pain   gardenia    a handful

of pebbles scattered

each stone unturned    its own

universe   shifted by wind

or water   The moon as

simply   a moon   each

fist unfolds to 

finally   hold

emptiness.

(Words by Claire Blotter 2007, image 'Inner Voices' Barb Levine 1994)

Evening

My friends had gathered,

and though their wild creaturely tongues

were unknown to me, I listened and nodded

in what I hoped were the right places.

Dark leaves against soft pearly sky,

hummingbird on her evening twig,

masked tricksters,

trees on the mountain

seemed all to be speaking a common language.

For a moment, I thought I understood,

as we sat together there in the stillness

dreaming we knew each other's names.

They have gone now,

following their secret trails in the dark,

I have remained here,

in their grace, unfolding like light.

(Sherri Rose-Walker 2008)

Right-hand page

At the top is a photo from an old Country Living magazine, below that a gorgeous painting of Hecate from an old We'Moon diary by Catherine Larsen (2005) symbolizing Hallowmas/Samhain. Below that is a powerful painting of a black panther/jaguar called 'Out of the Dark' by Jayne Dee (2010) with these words:

Speak to Me

Bring it on,

you shadowy

dark thing.

Give it to me. Right here.

Right now.

Spread your

black wings

and give me

the truth.

Whatever it is

I can handle it.

I can handle you,

the shadowy ugly moth

fluttering in the cage of my chest.

You have been fluttering there for years.

Banging against the bars of my heart.

Come here - let me have a look see

at your beady naked eye.

Ah, so you are scared too.

excerpt Heidi Hewett (2010)

And a gorgeous, albeit pretty old, Jessica Galbreth card finishes the board.

As I look over this Moonboard, I can definitely see themes of the turning year, the dark months approaching (in the northern hemisphere), and the veils between worlds thinning... 'Tis a magickal time, indeed!