It’s full moon dreamboard time again, hosted by Jamie Ridler.
This lunar month is the full frost moon. Jamie suggests we look back at our hopes for this year and what we may still bring to birth during this final period.
My “word” for this year is heart. You can read about it here. All year, I’ve been filling my heart with reflections, with friendship, with images, with music, with ideas, with stories, poems and prayers. Like a hibernating animal I’m ready for the frosts of winter, my heart full with fuel to warm me through the cold. I’m ready to sink into a darker, more introspective place.
Somewhere behind my eyes I see our ancestors darkly gathered around fire against the cold. They sing their stories, they store their food, they know not all those around the fire will see the spring.
As the dark gets longer and more profound each day, nature seems to conspire with the great night silence, part of the ancient rhythm of monastic life.
My dreamboard is above; my dream is this:
I yearn to be held in the great hands of your heart – oh let them take me now. Into them I place these fragments, my life, and you, God – spend them however you want.
Rilke, quote taken from
Seven Sacred Pauses
by Macrina Wiederkehr
Elsewhere:
Gather round the fire at Abbey of the Arts to read poems of the ancestors. And of course visit other dreamboards at Jamie’s site.
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Steve Marshall 11.02.09 at 5:43 pm
What a lovely image, Tess. I’ve seen and touched the Goldsworthy wooden sculpture that you feature – and that makes the dreamboard all the more real for me…
Last year at our place we cut down a tree and today we have been cutting and re-stacking some of the logs to provide us with warmth throughout the winter. This time of year makes me feel very close to the land – it brings some of the gravity of our participation with the world… As you say, this is an ancient rhythm…
SteveM
Lisa 11.02.09 at 6:37 pm
What a beautiful collage…. and powerful words as well! Many blessings to you as you dreams grow in the silence of winter…
Kate England | Marmalade Moon 11.02.09 at 8:21 pm
So beautiful and I love to hear your thoughts around your dreamboard and your word for the year, heart! May your wishes come true!
Theresa 11.02.09 at 8:33 pm
I can feel the warmth may it keep you warm all winter! Hold on all things dear to your heart~ Theresa
rebecca 11.02.09 at 9:35 pm
“As the dark gets longer and more profound each day, nature seems to conspire with the great night silence, part of the ancient rhythm of monastic life.”
Left me with goosebumps of anticipation for the quiet dark of winter.
Beautiful dreamboard. I am so intrigued by the twig sculpture(?), so complex and interwined, yet earthy and rugged.
Love….
kigen 11.03.09 at 12:08 am
Deep, dark, warm, wonderful!
“they know
not all those around the fire
will see the spring.”
or perhaps,
“they know not
all those around the fire
will see the spring”
Laura Daub 11.03.09 at 12:31 am
Beautiful words and collage and it’s true that your dreamboard has given off such a warm feeling… may your dreams come true!
Crayons 11.03.09 at 2:01 am
Beautiful post. This is the one that stuck with me: our ancestors gathering around a fire for warmth. I am so out of touch with nature, the planets, the temperature. I actually use the moon gadget on my laptop to know the stage. As I brace myself for the onslaught of Thanksgiving and Christmas, I forget that this is a season about bareness and warmth and shifting inward. Thank you so much for reminding me.
Abbey of the Arts 11.03.09 at 5:37 am
Beautiful Tess, this is my favorite moment of the year, this great turning toward darkness, this thin space when the ancestors breathe through the veil, and having a full moon just makes it all the more wonderful. Blessings dear friend, so glad to have gotten to know the beautiful person behind the blog.
Kel 11.03.09 at 7:23 am
mmm, that goldsworthy sculpture just drew me in
may winter bring your heart’s desire
Kathryn - Collage Diva 11.03.09 at 10:41 am
What a beautiful post – both pictures and words.
May the magic of this time stir within you your power to make your dreams come true!
Silky Hart 11.03.09 at 1:36 pm
Rich and powerful images and words! May the desires of your heart come true!
Tess 11.03.09 at 1:37 pm
Thank you all for these encouraging comments. Steve, how lovely to have seen and touched the sculpture. I cut it from the cover of an issue of Resurgence, one of my favourite magazines for both its words and images. I used it upside down in the collage, of course.
For those who don’t know Andy Goldsworthy’s work there are various sites where you can see it. A short biography is here: http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/AndyGoldsworthy/.
Crayons, I was struck by what you said about bracing yourself for the onslaught of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I think a lot of us probably feel the same. I wonder what’s to be done to get that introspective/exterior balance.
Sunrise Sister 11.03.09 at 5:24 pm
Your dreamboard is beautiful – thank you for sharing it here!
xoxo
Karen 11.05.09 at 3:12 am
what lovely images and intentions. thanks for sharing your dreamboard
jamie 11.05.09 at 6:33 pm
What beautiful dreaming, Tess. May all of your dreams come true.
lucy 11.10.09 at 11:13 pm
tess – the depth and variety of what you bring us is incredible. thank you for sharing your thoughts and images. your dreamboards are always so fabulous and deep. i can’t wait to see some of your official soulcollage cards! xxooxo