‘Tis the season for fortifying and cultivating, lighting and nurturing.
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” – Pietro Aretino
I’ve been churning through a process of refinement and discernment as of late by clearing out all that isn’t fully and deeply what I’ve been waiting for. It feels like a lightening in terms of letting go of the things in my circle that look like what I’ve been waiting for but clearly lack the OOMPH and va-va-voom (as my dear fellow goddess Rachel would so aptly call it). It’s an auspicious time for taking advantage of the cosmic trifecta of eclipsing full moon solsticeness as it’s a powerful time for change – and for turning. I’m ready for Mercury’s retrograde to right itself.
This past weekend whilst in the studio, I was dreamweavering dreamcatchers in between paintings. The last dreamcatcher I made was over 10 years ago, but I still have it. It’s made it through numerous cross-state moves and many shifts of scenery – literal and metaphorical when it comes to the waking and dreaming life.
In Native American lore, dream catchers are intended to filter out the bad dreams and keep the good ones. They were made of willow branch and sinew and meant to be impermanent. I’ve reappropriated this medium and use the creation of the dreamcatcher as a meditation on catching the dreams that I want to catch, with the image of filtering out what isn’t really ‘it’ and moving forward to the horizon sprayed with dazzling stars to the one that’s ours.
On the powerful eve of the solstice, align yourself with all that is yours – here, now and on the horizon. Deep blessings from my fiery heart to yours – and may all your wildest dreams come true in this new year.
xxoo
alstar
PS. Put a big ol’ red dot on the calendar for a date with moi and my art on the walls of TONIC in downtown Boulder on the eve of January 7, 2011, at 8 pm. Selections from The Cloud Forest series will be hanging for the month of January. Come, come…enjoy the relaxmosphere, enjoy a potion to sippy-sip and play. I can’t wait to see you.
