{"id":4585,"date":"2019-04-22T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:57:08","slug":"full-moon-in-libra-remembering-our-artisan-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/full-moon-in-libra-remembering-our-artisan-selves\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon in Libra: Remembering Our Artisan Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thread that\u2019s been arriving for me this Full Moon \u2013 a thread that speaks to Libra’s love of balance \u2013 is this:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve only been told half the story.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Not a new idea, but a circling back to it. And always, grief and outrage that in Western culture, what\u2019s been promoted and valued is the \u2018yang\u2019 side of the story \u2013 the doing, growing, achieving \u2013 while the \u2018yin\u2019 side of the story \u2013 the being, resting, releasing \u2013 has been vilified and deliberately obscured.<\/p>\n

There is so much we have forgotten. So much we never even had a chance to know. So much lineage and ancestral knowledge that has been very deliberately broken<\/strong>, especially for us as women.<\/p>\n

This Libran Full Moon I touch into some of the grief and despair around that\u2026<\/p>\n

No wonder that we can end up feeling disoriented, overwhelmed, and extremely susceptible<\/strong> to patriarchal\/capitalist cultural messaging which consistently devalues our embodied female experience, so that we end up feeling even more confused and disoriented!<\/p>\n

(Image above: Recent art experiments \u2013 taking watercolour and acrylic classes at the moment, to feed my Artisan Self!)<\/em><\/p>\n

VIDEO: REMEMBERING OUR ARTISAN SELVES<\/strong><\/h1>\n

But in the spirit of REMEMBERING ourselves and recovering our truth, and under the light of this artistic Moon, I want to pass on a gift that came to me via Jo Kilima of The Darling Tree<\/strong><\/a>, based in Brisbane, Australia. (Thankyou so much, Jo!)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mesmerizingly beautiful video of a two-year process of making the \u2018scholar\u2019s four jewels<\/strong>\u2019 of China \u2013 Chinese ink stick, writing brush, ink slab and paper.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an ode to the incredible beauty to be found in one\u2019s craft, in the humblest<\/strong> of tools.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a honouring of how making connects<\/strong> us to the wider web in which we belong \u2013 to our bodies, to Nature \u2013 trees, animals, land \u2013 to our culture, and to the long line of ancestors who came before us, and the wisdom and stories they passed on to us (or didn’t).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a deep bow to both the dedication of the creator, who embodies her way in an incredible poiesis, and to the time it takes<\/strong>, always\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a reminder of the invitation from Life, always, to craft<\/strong> our lives, to priestess our lives.<\/p>\n

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We are so hungry for connection.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we make, when we create, particularly when we faithfully show up to creation regularly, we are reminded that we BELONG, that we are in this deep and ongoing conversation with Life wanting to birth itself through us in beauty.<\/p>\n

A PRAYER<\/strong><\/h1>\n

So this is my prayer for all of us, this Full Moon, from my artist heart to yours:<\/p>\n

May we recover our lost creatrix<\/strong> selves.<\/p>\n

May we honour the humblest<\/strong> of our choices and actions as an integral part of this life we are creating, worthy of our attention and esteem.<\/p>\n

May we shed the deep inculturation<\/strong> of the ‘consumer’ mentality that obscures even the idea of making for ourselves, with our bodies and our hands.<\/p>\n

May we attune to the ancient and insistent song<\/strong> of Creation flowing through our fingers, our wombs, our heart, our need, our history.<\/p>\n

May we feel and know ourselves an ecstatic fractal of the Cosmic Artisan birthing Herself<\/strong> in a perfect and everlasting unfolding.<\/p>\n

Sigh… so mote it be…<\/p>\n

xxx Grace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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