THE AUTUMNAL TWILIGHTS BEGIN & THE 13 BLUE CORN MOONS MEASURE TIME
The night after the Capricorn Full Moon is velvety black and silent. The
moon casts the weakest of shadows and illuminates nothing beneath the
trees and the following morning is still and quiet.
The Summer Sun begins to move us into the edges of all twilight. The
Summer Sun leads us forward into the Autumn by softening the fiery
mental resolves and physical intentions, by sponsoring the moist
marriage hearts urge to seed and all the while, the Sun Spirit slowly
continues winding the cyclical fibers of being upon the spool of spiral
time, drawing us forward, binding the drying stalks and fruits into
sheaves of harvest.
Already seed imprints know themselves. Knowledge of ourselves stumbles
and looks about for clue and information. Most seeds remain encased in
tender and tough sheaths until the final days of 'making' are complete.
The twilight presages the deep rest, sleep and quiet time but for now,
calm and caution, softening and waiting are the appropriate stances.
These things, all things, ourselves, require this time, time to draw and
color what has been 'made'. It is our time to 'make' the imaginary
Spirit drawings and color in the first sketches out of the water filled
ollas of summer. The winter stories, songs and dances continue to form
and flesh out, gaining momentum in contrast to the outward looking
stillnesses. It remains too soon to speak of the stories, to sing the
song which is still but a hum, and to dance what is still a walk but we
are coming to know some-things, and also know there is much more to
come.
The late summer rains are fewer. The mulching, irrigation and sprinkling
the rows of tasseling corn which is gaining its majority is required,
so too are directed water streams flowing down the thirsty rows and
gullets of growth. Clouds of pollen drift down upon the fair hairy heads
of slim corn bodies. The final 'making' is done in the dry heat.
The passages upon the 13 Moon Calendar continues in beauty......