Opening We'Moon calendar - Gaia Rythms for Womyn is like re-meeting an old friend.
This is supposed to be a review but unfortunately, after that introduction sentence I have had the hardest time to continue.
We'Moon is an old friend. A very old friend. When I started using it I just loved to have a calendar that celebrated the rythms of the earth wheel, the cycles of the moon and an array of pagan holidays. It was extra fun to bring this calendar to meetings of a more so-called mundane world. It inspired interesting questions to say the least. That was a long time ago. Another life you might say.
For the last couple of years I haven't used the calendar. Life hasn't really lent itself to the luxury of an inspiring and beautiful book of days and months. Or, so it has seemed to me. So, I managed with adecuate though somewhat boring calendars. Mostly to remember what month it was.
When I published The Echo World I did reviews of We'Moon year after year, struggling to come up with new adjectives to avoid being redundant. I usually ended up focusing on the years particular theme, always well chosen and presented.
Theme of 2024 is Luminations. A beautiful theme and artists, poems, texts and illustrations are as always exquisite.
What strikes me most, however, trying to write this review, is the persistence it must have taken for We'Moon's creators to hold this wonderful project together, to stay true to its purpose and at the same time evolve and keep going. Hats off for this and if I didn't say, the actual calendar for 2024 is great. With a spark of the product of visionary, brilliant and persistent women to light up my planning again I expect there's a good year ahead. You can find the 2024 edition HERE. Happy winter solstice.
No comments:
Post a Comment