moon on water

A Blessed Easter to you all, and Chag Sameach for Pesach. There are many connections between the two – may your connections to this time deepen and strengthen you.

The Moon stays bright

when it doesn’t avoid the night

– Rumi

What other force is there greater than the one who pulls the oceans from shore to shore?

Does the Moon have anything to do with Aging & Becoming?

 The moon has a natural rhythm in her cycles, and aging is one of the cycles.

 She is always in motion, ever metamorphosing, dancing to her own tune, her own cycle. She is so unlike the sun which is constant and on which we rely for its regularity. Not so the moon on whose mystery we cannot always depend. Nor is it easy to grasp the power of the moon and it’s influence over us. The moon’s principle is change and ‘change’ is also an inner principle of women. It’s a very different one to men whose inner principle is primarily Logos.

 When she is new, she is hardly a sliver, barely to be seen – a fine, fine crescent of light. When she is full, she is a mandala, a huge orb looking down on us from the night sky.

 She increases and decreases –

 She appears at night-time, dark time, goodnight time and, like our lives, undergoes the motions of waxing and waning and waxing again. Past, present, future; beginning, middle, end; death, re-birth, eternity, back to star dust from whence we came.

 Now, as we age, we are more mindful of the night, represented by the moon and her feminine energy. She casts her diffuse and mysterious light upon us. She calls quietly, whispering about the cycles of change. She asks us to remember that we know that our lives have been experienced as cycles of change. She says remember me – I change as you do –

Sometimes night clouds obscure her and it takes a long while for her to re-emerge from behind them, if at all. I want to breath a dragon breath and blow those clouds away – but I also like to think of her as hiding, withdrawing. I feel at home in her concealment.

 She says, yes, there is ebb and flow, in me and in you. I am sometimes dark, sometimes at half phase or quarter phase or in between those phases, sometimes in decline, sometimes round, sometimes invisible. In my complex rhythm I remain faithful to my nature. I remain vigilant even in my eternal solitude.

 She says yes, man has landed on me, but you have much further to go, go within, the longest and deepest journey and seek the mystery that is you.

 What better time than now, as we age, to look to the moon that becomes eclipsed and the evening that becomes morning again. We may see a harvest moon that represents our own life harvest. We can unravel the shadow pieces of our lives, those lying on the dark side of the moon and bring them into the open.

 Use the magic of the inward flowing energy and become more of who we are …

Does the moon have any meaning to you?

57 Comments on M – Moon

  1. A great post! Our beautiful Moon, the most amazing heavenly body, my favorite, words cannot describe what she does for me, I watch her every move, when she is full, how she brightens my room my life! When she is full, how glorious she is when dancing with the little heavenly diamonds! I spend many of my evenings looking up at The Master of the Universe’s magical creation, spectacular beyond words!!I am 82 and will remain in awe of that magnificence until I no longer am!!Thank you for allowing my comment.

    • What a lovely eulogy to the moon Mildred thank you so much! So beautifully descriptive and energetic. May she continue to delight and entertain you. Thank you

  2. many a time we camped with children on mountain tops under moons full and bright
    such majesty and such mystery
    Sandra

    • The majesty and mystery of the moon – may the memories live on – may the moon still be a melody for today. Thank you Sandra.

  3. It is a long standing love affair with our Moon I have been privileged to. Whether dark, round, a sliver, full, harvest, blood or blue, eclipsed, quartered or halved, she is ever in my heart and on my mind. She has followed me as I traverse this eastern coast, early morning, early evening and late into the dark night; never failing to support my sojourn. Below find one of our less complicated rendezvous.

    Ever,

    R.

    Lunaris Rarus
    Tens of thousands of insects performed a symphony, an elaborate musical composition resonating, familiar and strange, persisting, unwavering notes upon notes – the last hurrah – as I strolled along the cement walk, to view, in an early evening wan indigo sky, the golden orb of a blue moon. Pale purple colored shadows decorated the reflecting surface of the blonde satellite presenting the appearance of a face: still, mute, suspended, shedding an ochre glow, casting mine moon shadow: casting a shadow for all, for all mindful of the rare reverie.

    – Robert Pennington Price

    • Robert that is so beautiful thank you. I can hear the angel/insects singing in celebration of all that is Nature and in celebration of he moon.

  5. Here we can see the moon in a bright blue sky, then at night millions of stars join in the party, we have very little light pollution… we often lay back looking up at show, *sigh*. 🙂

    Loving the A to Z Challenge Maggie@expatbrazil.

  7. One to be born
    From a dragon
    Arises high up
    In the sky to
    The still land
    Veiling the moon
    With the light of eternity
    It brings
    Another promise
    To Mother Earth with
    A bounty and mercy

  8. Lovely post! I, too, adore the moon and am grateful for all that it does to shape the rhythms of life on this planet. I’ve even written a song about it (not yet recorded, though.) I got up at 2 a.m. last night to see the “Blood Moon” eclipse. So beautiful! I poured a mug of tea, went outside and peered at it through binoculars. I took several photos, too, but it didn’t seem like enough. I finally raised my glass and gave a toast to the moon and the nearby oaks (so as not to leave them out.) Only then did it feel right!

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  9. That is lovely Cecilia thank you – making the connection with heaven and earth. I do that too sometimes – it is so peaceful.

  10. I watched the eclipse tonight. Some nights I simply go out and stand in the light of the moon and make connection with the earth. I love the night and the moon. It is such a peaceful time.

    • That is lovely Cecilia thank you – making the connection with heaven and earth. I do that too sometimes – it is so peaceful.

  11. Thank you for your poetic encounter with the moon. Each time that I look up to view a full moon, I will think of you.

  12. Hi,

    Thank you for this informative article on the moon because i love watching it and will pay closer attention to it the next time I observe it.

    Shalom,
    Patricia

    • As I respond to you Patricia with my thanks for your comment I can see the moon from my window. This is altogether very special that I write as I view … and a Blessed Easter to you as you commemorate this time.

  13. I think of the Wesak moon (the full moon in Taurus, and commemorating the birth, enlightenment and death cycles of Gautama Buddha), the Wesak full moon meditation, a sacred event for one’s soul and subtle bodies and for blessings for the world. I experience the Wesak moon as a high, clear, peaceful time; I can almost hear the high-pitched, constant pinging of the cosmos. This year the Wesak moon occurs on or about May 14.

    I say this about the moon because you are writing this beautiful, reflective piece just before the Wesak moon, almost as a preparation.

    • That is lovely Samantha thank you! The Buddha life cycles: of birth enlightenment and death and its intentions for all …I have now made a note in my diary to commemorate this on May 14, when I’ll be in the Cape among the majestic mountains and will surely see her magnificence from there. I will cock my ear and hopefully hear the ringing and pinging of the cosmos ..

  14. Excellent post, Susan, and so fitting on the day after the lunar eclipse. The moon always holds a certain magic, its setting and rising through our lives and the lives before and after. Yes, it probably has something to do with aging and becoming, the consistency of life despite everything that happens — death, new birth, seasons.

    • Thank you Silvia! Did you get to see it? This is one of four eclipses – others still to come and visible only in the North, so we’ll miss out here in South Africa.
      You express that so well ‘.. its setting and rising through our lives and the lives before and after’.

  15. A very good post indeed, we have had a very bright full moon here in Britain for a couple of nights. I do like the light of a full moon. Although I dont run about in the woods howling (well not a lot).

    Many thanks for visiting my humble blog, I am (have) totally lost the plot as to who I have visited and who I have not so if I return and appear to imply I have not been here before it is because I’m old and my brain is on holiday.

    Rob Z Tobor

    • You’re in good company here Rob! I enjoyed your Mole poem .. and call it the Moon and her madness (which I can see in all her fullness from my study window as I write) and sleep deprivation last night, I left you a pathetic poem. I appreciate your stopping by thank you.

  17. Hello Susan – and Other Susan. What perfect timing for your M-Moon post.
    I have to admit, after my killer 12 hour Monday at work, I didn’t get up at 2 in the morning to see the beautiful moon last night. It was simply gorgeous about 11 before I headed to bed. She was majestic and luminous. I always marvel at her beauty. Great post today!

    • Thank you Trisha and glad you got to see it. How wondrous it is to see Beauty – and pause – in amongst the hurly burly-ness of life.

    • Thank you Jennifer. It’s night time here in South Africa as I write and the moon is visible – still pretty and full with all her stars. I was in San Francisco last week and it was a thrill for me to check out the moon from my balcony overlooking the Bay.

  21. Yes, the moon is intriguing with its impact on the universe and our lives. Some how I had not thought about our lives eclipsing as does the moon, but it is true. Our emotions definitely are impacted by the changes in the moon. Last week was a terrible week for many of my friends because of the changes in the moon.

    This is a beautiful post and I love the imagery.

  22. I love the gentleness of the moon and how you weave her into the aging process. Her feminine qualities lend a nurturing to the rhythm of our lives. Perfect timing for our full moon and lunar eclipse.

  24. A lovely post, Susan, thank you. There’s natural magic in the Moon and it’s subtle energies which affect us all. It’s reassuring to see it in the sky, and a full Moon can be quite spectacular, in a different way to when it snows and night becomes bright in a white landscape. No wonder I find it hard to sleep when there’s a full Moon! 🙂

  26. Morning Susan,

    These are such interesting thoughts about the moon. A lovely reminder placed on the sky where we can all see it, to be reminded of the ever happening change we all go through.

    I also find the moon very mysterious but also very comfortable. To me the moon is a comforting reminder of those home in Norway. When I first moved to South Africa me and my grandmother used to look at the moon on Sundays at nine in the evening, knowing that way we were both looking at the same moon and in that feeling a little closer to each other.

    Have a wonderful day xx

    • That is a tender story Oda thank you re you and your grandmother looking at the moon at the same time! And a reminder that it is there for all to see it. Tonight in the northern hemisphere is an eclipse of the moon.

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