It has been such a magical full to moon to have in the family-oriented sign of Cancer. How can we appreciate our families even more?
melted dark chocolate
hand-drizzled on a candy cane
positioned on a graham cracker stick
for dream walking
hats off to the warm gingerbread baking in the oven
while we lick the frosting freshly made
messed about on our fingers, spreading icing
with song‘s flav
hearth lit 🔥 and cocoa steaming in the kettle.
hanging with that marshmallow snow outside
is the song 🎵 of the seasons lingering in the air from the records revolutions
adding to the momentum like floating clouds
the smell of pine needles and the early setting sun glowing up on the rafters
I will see the stars tonight, on this long night of 14 hrs.
butterscotch nightcap and the old Sprites
yen for more blackberry honey mead
one more toast to the night in radiant jubilation
for the
the gift of the sight,
its rising nature
the way the sun, love, air, heat, & ascension
are always lifting up.
chimes of the clock mark my optimism
for even at midnight both arms point high.
rainbow colors are
mixed differently
half drawn
into a sketch
stretched onto a surface of
fitting in, trying, that is
room for everything
tangled by
the light in the center
with strings
horizons multiply
and the thick scent of vapor
freshens the tablet
we all have eyes
seeing out, seeing in
everywhere is news ,
events
then there is just sitting
and smiling
sitting in the center of a mess
satisfied by
by the sketch in progress
never done
not worrying about how to
tie it in a bow,
story-coat it.
In November I promised myself I would get back to making art in the form of something more like free-flow drawing and allowing. I had a big ambition which was to do one drawing a day. I set out with these inspiring supplies of water color pencil which were magically on sale for 50% off. This has been a favorite medium of mine throughout the years. I think my first love was actually oil pastel, but it shifted. No sooner did we get to this spot in the month did I realize that I did make my mark on the paper but I would have to revisit the same image, because it just wasn’t going to be completed in the short amount of time that I allotted. I didn’t meet my challenge but the point of a challenge is to put forth a sufficient FOCUSED effort sometimes, not to necessarily always reach the intended goal.
When I was younger and I made art, it would be for fun, for exploration, but also I was working out things. Sometimes I made art that was ‘ugly.’ Yet I have always held this dream to one day make art again that (other) people like.
I remember to well the early admirers of my art. They really did make me feel “seen” as a child and teenager who made art.
So, I’m posting over the years my “starts and stops” my spurts and my blurts. I’m not sure if I will ever turn my art into a steady meditation (or if I even want to) because I’m exploring and explorers look for some kind of “gold.” So maybe I’m a wandering one, and I get off the visible path and trek in the unseen for periods.
So there’s its own process “the art” and “the unfolding;” and, it simply needs my respect and my love.
When I was younger I always noticed the passion in others. It became easier to fan their flame than to dedicate myself to my own creations. Maybe my art can become an extension of my self inquiry. 🧐 I always picture myself doing installation art “commentaries” once again. I only ever did one once and I thought it was gonna be the start of my art career. It was not.
This upcoming New Moon in Sagittarius ♐️ looks kind of nice on paper with 20Deg at Sun/Moon conjunction. It’s in trine aspect, which is generally considered an easy aspect, to the transiting North Node. However it is squaring Neptune in its domicile of Pisces. A square is an angle of challenge, with a more potent flavor.
Mercury is in its retrograde shadow and will be turning retrograde right after this New Moon on the 12th. So there’s a Neptune-y feel to this new moon and Mercury. There’s a chance to reconsider the habitual nature of mind and adapt with reflection and then re-charting course.
Higher and highest ideals mashed and mixed with reality possibly a sandblast with clarity or being spun again into a tornado of confusion. The latter is less likely but possible. The title relates, for me, back to my natal Neptune in Sagittarius which does square my natal Saturn in Virgo and trine my natal Sun in Leo. Neptune is in my 10th house of public/career. It is no wonder that I was called to be and serve spiritually in a capacity that is often free-flowing and idealistic and visionary.
For us all:
It’s a good time to make extra progress shedding addictions and illusions in consciousness. There may be grace and insights on the wing.
The wisdom and insight of spiritual teacher Helen Hamilton points to ways of self-inquiry that speaks directly to the ways she fully awoke. She helps the satsang listener to understand experientially how to practice and embrace the Self through awakening and deepening the habitual attention to the space from where all phenomena comes and goes. Here’s a link to her core teachings: https://youtu.be/DyzwcIiEQqw?si=iUrRn4xDEvfRIso4
I’ve been waiting for a long time to be found by what needs to find me: people, energies, Spirits. How about you? Did you find your calling right away? Each time I meet someone new I can help or connect with spiritually, my calling becomes known to me. My lifetime has been one of patience and dedication, growing and realizing faith through walking through the thick fires of consciousness transformation. The Spirit is willing.
How do you move through consciousness? Are your days deliberately planned, whimsical? Did you feel the fires burning from a young age for a particular skill or gift? Are you on the planet with a mission, or is it time to renew one, or even create one?
Whatever you’re calling, let us know in the comments!
This post is the finale post. Included here is the whole passage, number 48, with links from the Tao Te Ching passage (citation below). Also included is the rest of the passage, because there were more words than I had title space for (more than 30). Ah, the spirit of a challenge. It’s like a brisk walk through the days, an autumn season delight. A way to hold the light gently. There’s the gathering, and the spirits, and the gathering of the spirits. So much to appreciate and be thankful for. The cuppeth overruneth.
every day something is dropped.
Less and less do you need to force things,*
until finally you arrive at non-action.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
True mastery can be gained
by letting things go their own way.
It can’t be gained by interfering.
Each year, this Nano Poblano is a *certain* challenge. We all face different circumstances and event-filled lives for many of us. For others, it might be lonely. Nevertheless, my WP blog (and yours) is one of my most special homes. You all who gather here and interact really touch my heart and make my season. I get excited to do NanoPoblano, it puts me in a festive mood and sets the tone for “unofficially official” in a way that really appeals to me: a ‘no pressure’ challenge. What could be more than a gift but a gentle push and nudge that is mostly self-governed, with group support and group consciousness? Thank you, Rara, Bill Friday, Matt, Dinah, and all of you. You all have last names, but Bill’s is Friday, so I had to list that. Seeing you year after year, in whatever capacity, is part of my festivities. You may not realize how much you impact me with your presence, just living your own lives, writing through it all–or flustering through it. It doesn’t matter how we get to the other end; we are together.
To all of you who have been with me almost every day: Eddie, Mark, Sue, Tania, my dear Yassy, Joanna, Karen, Debra, Dani, and so many others… I cannot thank you enough for your presence and helping me to get through this challenge. I hope it has fulfilled you to be a part of it as much as it has fulfilled me to have you be a part of this month-long blog challenge, and just blogging together, in general ❤ You are all loved. There are countless others who I did not name but you know who you are. Thank you for being here. Your comments have helped me in my own transformation and levity.
As for my more reflective space and self-discussion: The Tao Te Ching has been with me since I was a pre-teen. It was my answer to what didn’t make sense in religion, and has been with me in some capacity ever since. I highly regard the Tao Te Ching, which is why I am a doctor of acupuncture, East Asian medicine and practice holistic, integrative, and functional medicine. Yes, those are a lot of words for I educate myself a lot and I’m always busy learning. My blog has mostly been the space where I share my astrological insights (since my astrology tutelage began as a pre-teen as well). I also share my art in writing, drawing, whimsy, shamanic practicing, meditation, photography, poetry, and whatever is new and transformative for me to bring out of myself and into the world.
Kauai is a most wonderful place in the world, who is the heart of the mother who speaks to me. Almost all of my photographs displayed here are of this beautiful island.
For those of you who just met me: Welcome. Get cozy. Please take something from your time here with me. Please make your time meaningful, delightful, and/or full of wonder. Please leave with a renewed sense of purpose. Open your mind to questions with ease and grace. Please be as you are, and come and go with your own joy, tenderness, vulnerability, grief, openness, perception, wisdom, and embrace. However you are.
Happy Holidays! From my heart to yours!
Source:
Laozi., & Mitchell, S. (2009). Tao te ching. London, Frances Lincoln Limited.
Marveling at little things, energy, forces of nature. Is a force a power? Or just a way to look at focused energy? Use the force for the good 🙂
to
live in green
as hill or a seam
as a speed bump on
a mountain
or a thread
pointed to the stream
to be woven into nature’s
tapestry,
as an aspect of color,
a surrendering ribbon to gravity,
is to relax,
is to hang…
This Full Moon, today, in Gemini is interesting because its got the Sun very close to Mars. So there could be more urgency, a sense of motivation, or even a “loose canon” experience. So moderation and temperance is extra advised. One additional reason this experience is “pressurized” is because the Sun and Moon (in opposition as with a full moon) are in a T-square with the planet Saturn at 0 degree of Pisces. Spiritual experiences may intermingle with your sense of reality in a new way that reveals that ‘reality’ is either more ‘fluid’ and inconsistent than originally thought–or, conversely one can experience a solidification of what was otherwise seen as only etheric or of the “mind” (Gemini). Please feel free to share how you are feeling in the 3 days around the Full Moon. We are all so curious for your feedback.
Just a few more days of the Nano Poblano challenge! Happy Blogging during the Holiday season. Get your cozy on!
The Eucalyptus (Rainbow) Deglupta is my favorite tree.
A rainbow tree has to be literally the coolest thing that exists on the planet. I mean, especially that it’s a eucalyptus!
This is my Thanksgiving post. The fact that we get to live such a magical life, and to share it with you, with each other ❤
Go ahead and click on the pepper. There’s a whole team here.
I’m hoping I didn’t lose the theme to this Nanopoblano 2023, and it all got carried away with me. I think I also just trust that it’s all gonna come together on the 30th, when I put it all together. There will be some reflection, some wisdom–something to glean. I believe you can make something out of nothing. The nothing is the less. There is a less, even when there looks like there’s more. That’s the beauty of the illusions of life. (Yesterday’s post is Dropped.). I am allowing the process to be its own thing. I am at the temple, tenderly, openly, readily allowing…
Thanks for being here! Thanks for reading! Thanks for liking! Thanks for commenting! Thanks for being with me on my *very* busy day. I’ll be around a lot more tomorrow.
Okay some weird things about me.
I just put this image up because my inertia of not doing any artwork — at all — for years, it’s starting to get cracking. There’s a crackling. The push from inside was “make a mark” “start a spark.” So there you have it. An unplanned, unscheduled post (that does not fit with my theme of this month). But line, color and spirit really want to be made time for. It’s something I’ve been grappling with for some time. This is even despite that I read one whole book and am halfway through another! Productivity is my middle name. Haha. Let it flow forth and outward. It’s time to flow. In all the ways… like rays.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for being here.
Let the image activate you!
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