Friday, January 26, 2024

Word of the Day - Rain train

Rain train, meaning - (simple google search): basically a storm that forms from the conglomeration of smaller scale thunderstorms but is not as big as a mid-latitude cyclone.

Left for something, Elysian Fields Ave, NO

I learnt this word yesterday. And today. And I will probably learn more about the concept tomorrow. Another meaning of rain train: pretty tedious.

However, moist and murky as they may be, rain train days are perfect curiosity days, or cultural days if you want to sound more focused. New Orleans have a lot to look at and the public library culture pass is a great invention.  Michael and I are looking into  possibilities. But first a walk. A rain-hanging-in-the-air walk.

St. Roch Cemetary, NO

Friday, January 12, 2024

Holding Magical Space

To hold a space for magic -real magic - is the most delicate thing and requires strength of a rare kind. It is - I imagine - like teaching a moth (to teach a butterfly would be similar I assume. I really have no firsthand experience with the analogy on a whole.) to lift a barbell heavier than its own weight.

To lift that barbell yourself would be impossible. After all, it's the jobb of a moth, or a butterfly, and a fictional one on top of that, doing an impossible task.

If one holds that magical space long enough, (Just discarding that it is indeed impossible.) then maybe, sometimes, sometimes miracles do happen.


Butterflies on mural , Who Dat Coffee,
Burgundy street, New Orleans

Saturday, January 6, 2024

A Very Red Day

A day is filled up

     with every thougt we have

          every feeling

               every action

               every joy, every low grade sadness of things lost, of the color we paint our aura, or our walls.

This is a good day. Early still. But I will cook a chicken (in the oven, the hottest red spices, lots of onions) and put up pictures in our workroom (second hand frames, some already filled with images of fiddlehead fern and mountains and trees. In some I will put doodles I made over the last years.) In the room where Michael and I write and work and dream. A very important room for us indeed. 

I think I'll use plant allies, those warm and happy ones - cinnamonsticks, cloves and orange peel, I'm sure I'll come up with something more - and make some tea. It will fill up the room with scents. Scents have colors you know. Those scents are reddish, a warm orange hue. The color of the chicken cooking will be a deeper red. It's the chillipepper mostly and the paprika, of course.

Feelings also have colors. At least for me. The feeling of accomplishing something is also red; a bright, shiny red. So putting up those pictures on the wall radiates something. Punching nails into the wall with a hammer defiently creates ruby sparks.

I think this is a very red day.

From collection Associations by Jeffrey M Fletcher



Friday, December 29, 2023

Ancestral Healing, The Shadow-Side of "Light Workers" & Predications For Humanity



I seldom lazy-share the ideas of people in the so-called spiritual field. But there's so many things I want to say and it takes a lot of time. So sometimes, I think it's ok to share the thoughts of a person you admire. Someone who doesn't simplify anything. 

Like right now for example. I'm listening to Teal Swan in a beautiful interview about Ancestral Healing, The Shadow-Side of "Light Workers" & Predications For Humanity. If you're tired of the humbug of ... well ... many things. This interview is worth its weight in gold.

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Petals

Everything you want will come flowing in.

If you ask for it. But be careful.

If you want love, you cannot make a list of the traits you wish a partner to have. If you want money, you cannot think that hard work or losses, much more important than money, is also on the horizon. If you want health, you got to do the work that a healthy body and mind demands.

Everything you want will come flowing in. But wishing is not a shopping list. There is a price to every gift. The price may be high if you haven't thought it through.

What do you really want? Are you willing to pay the price? Is your wish pure, devoid of pride and petty return-to-sender sidenotes

Then, and only then will everything you want come flowing in, slowly but surely like petals moving gently on the water surface.


Petals by Jeffrey M Fletcher

Thursday, December 21, 2023

The We'Moon Calendar 2024

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.



Thursday, December 14, 2023

Prayer for Any Crossroad

 Great Spirit

Save me from my own stupidity.

Release me from my fears - known and unknown - so I can take true part in Every Day.

I will be all here and do my parts, always present, always ready knowing that:

"What you are seeking is also seeking you."

I give thanks to my allies - visible and unvisible alike. I am alive.

I told many stories. I will tell many more. I will flow like a body of water in the River of Life (rocks and boulders eventually wears down.) I'll walk in Turtle strides. When you walk very slow you get to your destinations so much faster.

Idun make me young again in heart and mind. Lifeforce flowing freely,

until it doesn't.

So mote it be

Stage setting for Wicked, Saenger Theater.



Word of the Day - Rain train

Rain train, meaning - (simple google search): b asically a storm that forms from the conglomeration of smaller scale thunderstorms  but is n...