July 31, 2012

i live with the moon ::

This savage season of the waxing moon, she tears me apart right now. Her keening darkness, light-edged and yet oh-so-dark, casts shadows on my “wild gypsy energy that refuses to be tamed,” as Marion Woodman puts it, and those shadows are the shape of my bones.

eclipse. light and shadow.
My darkness wakes with me. She isn't underworld darkness but otherworld, a womb-shaped mystery.  I didn't know it would happen like this, with my own awakening, and I’ve resisted going there until now.

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I am guest-posting today at the lovely Gypsy Moth Sol. Please join me with Katelyn to continue reading! 
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  1. Heading over to read more of your lovely words.

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  2. I wish you so much love and peace in your season with the moon. I read it all and you have a gift with words. I know what stage you are talking about as I lived it out in a different but same way. I understand how important it is. You are a true gypsy soul balanced with compassion and light. My ancestors were Gypsies who traversed many sorrows yet also danced with abandon. I am so glad you are finding your balance. I am writing a post about that today...Not because of your walk but because of what I have seen in mine and the world around me.
    Thank you for your inspired journey and sharing your legitimately important stage:)
    Love

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    1. thank you! this intrigues me because i feel like the more i "become" the less interested i am in balance, but to see it AS balance that way is not a concept i've considered. thanks for the food for thought!

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    2. Yes it IS balance...I guess it's perspective on words though. For me balance is equal to wholeness in Being. It's different for everyone....their balance. I am a person who feels tension from both paradoxical extremes. My balance is finding some sort of middle ground of acceptance where I can lovingly embrace all peoples yet still hold up boundaries to the disrespectful...yet still be considerate in the way only I can. Balance means to me what compassion means to most. To not get so ingrained into one thing (like religion) for too many years without bouncing back to something with more consideration of anything outside of that. When we lose balance we lose foresight, compassion, empathy, tolerance...and most of all our own empowerment. The more I become the more I find "my" balance...
      which will be different for everyone...But the concept is basically that the more accepting and free someone is- the more they have found their own inner balance. It does not mean they won't dabble in extremes- that is fine. Sometimes we need that to find our balance...but they will not get "stuck" in them:)
      Does that make sense? ANd some like you find less need to mention balance because they are becoming and found it. I simply mention it because it is my passion just like the inner warrioress is yours. Different meanings and similar jourmeys of freedom:)
      Thanks for challenging me and inspiring always:)

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  3. Moon Mother is in darkness more than in light..........

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  4. Heading over to check it out. Your words really bury themselves into me. So beautiful and haunting.
    I wish you nothing but light and love
    Manda Rave x

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    1. thank you so much! i've really appreciated your comments. thank you for spending time here. <3

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  5. your words really stretch me, truly stretch me, because i too am in a place of questions and "not knowing", but i don't know how to be okay with that. i don't really know what i believe or don't believe, and instead of sitting with that, i've just tried to push it away. because not knowing does not feel good. it makes me feel all heavy souled and my heart feels gripped and squeezed and black spots of not seeing dance behind/in front of my eyes. and sometimes, most times, i don't know where to go, where to start looking for answers. but i think i need to become more okay with living in the questions before i can truly go find answers. if that makes any sense...

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    1. it's hard, isn't it? and it's ok not to know how to be ok with that and these layers upon layers of vulnerability and uncomfortableness. you are stronger than you know. <3

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  6. i just made a soul connection with you. at least on my side.

    you made me truly REALIZE that the moon is truly feminine. it's mysterious, dark, and you have to work to reveal her secrets. womb shaped is the perfect... PERFECT way to describe darkness...

    last night, i went out into the field behind my house, where the foxes make their dens, and EVERYTHING was illuminated by the moonlight. it was truly beautiful. instead of going inside after my dog was done playing, i just sat in the damp vegetation and stared at Her and the misty clouds reflecting her light.... so magical.

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    1. mmm. this resonates with me so much. what a lovely evening. i try to steal away into shadows and moonlight whenever i can, and it saddens me how hard it is in the city where i live. i loved reading your words and feeling as though i was there, too. <3

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  7. you are beautiful

    love and light

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Please be respectful in your words. I am on a journey and this is a glimpse of it. I do not engage in debating nor do I choose to spend my energy defending what I write.

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Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.

Charles B Newcomb

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