New Ivy Moon dreamboard

I've been moving very slowly today (I had a hypo in the night...), but I was determined to get today's dreamboard made. I started making New Moon boards last October, so I SO didn't want to miss my anniversary :)

Left-hand page

It's a pretty stark page, but I love how the reindeer antlers mirror the bare branches...

And I wrote out these words from this week's We'Moon diary:

I boldly take up

the shadows,

wear them

like midnight silk,

honour them

for their part

in me.

Nell Aurelia (2013)

Right-hand page

And here on this page are two more images from We-Moon - Encountering Shadow, with a powerful painting called 'A Friend of Nancy's' by Sophia Rosenberg (2013) and this wonderful poem by Holly Wilkinson (2013) with a lovely image called 'Willomaiaa' by Dorrie Joy (2008):

The Shadow Seamstress

Three doors down,

easily passed by

in the light of day, the shadow seamstress

stitches webs of the world.

For a few sous, she will

re-shape your woes, worries

and night wanderings.

Come she calls,

when gloom envelopes you.

Come when your heart is laden

with piles of soiled dreams

and tarnished plans.

She will warm a cup of tea

while you wait,

take a tuck here

loosen a tightness there,

turning your fears into lace.
[I LOVE that line!!]

No, she cannot cut you free from darknesses you carry.

A lover of shapes and shadows, she simply desires we embrace

our intricate wholeness.

And the page is finished off with a page from last year's quote-a-day calendar:

All good things are Wild & Free

Henry David Thoreau

and a beautifully pensive model from this season's Toast catalogue.

I am definitely moving into hibernation mode... the desire to sit in the shadows, exploring my own shadows...

Bring on the Darkness :)