Black Moon (Part Three): The Month Ahead

[windinthemaples]

This month, to honor Temple of the Twelve's Lady Black, I intend to take an honest look at my talents and assess how I use them (and more importantly, *could* use them) in my daily life. Though it is not always comfortable for me, I will make an effort to reach out more and to share my feelings. I have no idea who might be in the dark, needing the reassurance of a little light.

I've got a few projects planned:

1. I will complete a self-portrait, as Caroline did, that reflects the whole of my True Self. I took the first step by taking a photograph to represent my physical self, as it exists without makeup or fashion or artifice, and the larger portion of that task is that I'm going to create an intuitive collage self-portrait. Here's an entry of various intuitive collages I did as part of my Silver Branch work in 2008. So far, I have a wooden hinged treasure box (with a little bird on top, appropriately enough) that I'm filling with words and phrases and snippets that catch my eye in our magazine recycling pile. By the next new moon, I'll have pieced them all together on a hand-colored background to best represent me, as I am, warts and all. :)

2. I am going to work with and really study the black crystals on my black month altar. I know there is a lot I can learn about Black from my specular hematite, black tourmaline, and that night's sky blue goldstone.

3. I am going to serve, in the larger world, the essence of Black. Volunteering at the homeless shelter felt right, a solid start to this intention. The challenge will be to keep it up, to put myself out there and to volunteer myself to serve where I'm best suited.

For those of you in your own Black Moon, what are your plans? :)

Comments

[costumenut.livejournal.com]

I love reading about your progress! And I'm jealous. I would love to work through the colors as part of my creative and spiritual growth. Do you think the book would be helpful for a nondenominational spiritualist?

[elfinecstasy.livejournal.com]

I worry that people will think that cause I'm the author I'm just pushing the book but I HAVE to step in and butt in here. This particular point means too much to me.

I wrote the book DELIBERATELY HOPING that it would be meaningful accessible and useable for ALL spiritual paths. And i've had Christians Unitarians Jews and a few others say that the book does cross over those boundaries to just simply touch hearts. I really hope it does. :-) In the workbook in fact, there is a section about what different faiths feel each color represents...

I also have friended you by the way ;-)

[costumenut.livejournal.com]

I have friended you too!!! I'm at LEAST a few months away from being able to commit to something this important, but I have filed it away as a future "want/need". Color for me as an artist is vitally important, and I often have played with various the symbolic nature of it. So I think it's right up my alley! :-)

[elfinecstasy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for friending me back :-) *yay* Caroline the main character in Vol. 1 is an artist as well

I have found that the Colors I write about are ready and waiting for each person at just the right time when that person is ready for them :-) :-)

Welcome to my journal new friend

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely. I think it reads more like a general spiritual/personal growth allegory than anything else since it is couched as a fiction novel and the corresponding experiential journal is also very open-ended, too.

[costumenut.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation! I can't wait to read more about your journey in the coming months.