Darkness falls.
I enter sacred space
stepping from holy ground
onto holy ground
only this time I recognize it.
Owl calls,
moon rises,
sun sets,
leaves rustle,
heart beats.Breathing in,
breathing out
feeling the world spin
feeling the earth turn
watching Her weaving at work in the night.
July’s Blue Moon is coming up at the end of this week and my Womanrunes course is carefully scheduled to end on that day. I can hardly believe we have worked through 37 runes already! (I’ve also scheduled the next Immersion for October.) I’ve written a Full Moon ritual to go out with the last email for the course and I will do the ritual myself with my family. I definitely feel the restless energy referenced in this Blue Moon article:
…As amazing as this moon will be, and necessary—it’s going to be one that challenges us on every single level. In the build up to this lunar event we may have been feeling restless, or have had an excess of nervous energy. Our pulses may have been racing, and it may have been harder for us to relax or fall asleep at night.
Our souls can sense that we are on the verge of something big—but it’s up to us to initiate change.
via Unprecedented Blue Moon in Aquarius: Now or Never. | elephant journal.
Last night, I took my new crystal ball with me to the woods to reflect. I asked what I need to know right now, as I am feeling pulled in several directions and between several wonderful ideas, and I drew The Heart. It reminds me to rest for a little while, but also that I act in this world with great passion and intensity and that’s okay.
We are leaving tomorrow for a family mini-vacation at a river cabin. I’m really looking forward to it. Some healing, play, and relaxation after the energetic depletion of the hard work required for me during the last two weeks of my school session.
(Of course, I fantasize that somehow I’m going to finish writing my dissertation during our mini vacation! 😉 )
“She may feel she will die if she does not dance naked in a thunderstorm, sit in perfect silence, return home ink-stained, paint-stained, tear-stained, moon-stained.”
—Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Hi Molly, I enjoyed your Blue Moon blog and now I understand why I just couldn’t sleep, on one night in particular over the past weekend! I love your quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estes at the end – it really spoke to me. Which of her books is it from? I feel like I need to read the whole passage! Thanks, Ruth
I love it too! It is from Women Who Run with the Wolves.
Ah thank you. Time I revisited that amazing book.