Full Moon Rising – Nature Beyond the Earth

The Earth rises to meet the Full Moon. The Earth’s crust literally rises as does my body and the tide. We are all pulled towards this luminescent light.

Nature encompasses more than the Earth. It is the cosmos itself. All is interconnected and so it is all one. I learn from individual beings and things in Nature and I learn from the relationships I find between these.

The relationship between Earth and Moon has played upon our psyches since we came to be. We are what we are because of this relationship. It has not only created the physical environment in which we live it has shaped us both within and without. Our imaginations have drawn fuel from this relationship since ancient times.

The rise and fall of the tides, the Earth’s crust, our bodies is an important teaching of this relationship. There are times when our energy is high and when it is low. It is a natural occurrence. When we try to always be high energy, it can adversely affect us body and soul. Low energy times are times of rest. We need both.

Another teaching is that of symbiotic relationships. We see how the Earth and Moon interact to the benefit of life on earth. If we saw all of our relationships, to one another, to animals, to the environment as symbiotic, we would work together for the good of all.

The fact that we are affected by celestial bodies, some millions of miles away, shows us just how interconnected it all is. We can see the interconnections on our earth, but to view how it all is interplay is to expand our consciousness.

This Full Moon is also a Blue Moon, the second Full Moon in a month. January also had a Blue Moon leaving short February without one. As I was writing notes for this blog in the middle of the night my eyes landed on a drink listed on the bar guide in the den. The drink was a Blue Moon. Until that point I hadn’t even thought of it. There was a reason I was drawn to that spot to take down my predawn musings.

We often use the term Blue Moon to indicate something that rarely happens and yet this year we have two. The last time this happened was in 1999. The next time will be 2037. Being metaphorically minded I have to wonder what it could mean. Of course our calendar is just a construct, but then we’ve made much meaning from it and it’s all reflection. A rarity occurring twice at the beginning of this year brings to mind how we may be starting to embrace a possibility mindset. Instead of have a mentality of “that’s just the way it is”, we’re moving towards one where we ask what is possible.

As the time of the Full Moon draws closer, I’ve been dreaming more. The Moon pulls all upwards including the content of my subconscious. All becomes closer and brighter. I will bathe in her light and all that is brought to me in dreams. Wisdom lies deep within the Source of All Life. It is born as Nature.