Tonight I looked through 15-70 Celestron binoculars at the waning moon, which reached maximum fullness yesterday. I found the experience inebriating, the details stark and unforgiving. Untold centuries of the moon's bombardment by meteorites have left darkened craters, which resemble....a face pock-marked with acne? White-rabbit wormholes? More vibrantly, the moon's surface shimmers with an incandescent sparkle, a glitter or crackle, of blue luminescence. Nothing will prepare you for the sight of this neon glow, like snow crystals or diamonds in the sun. Other spots, once lakes, swamps or marshes, perhaps, appear to be grey blotches / infestations. Blights gone-wrong. Dead zones, spreading like a flesh-eating disease. Is She alive and aware of Her disfiguration? Zombifying? Does She know the wise ones who anthropomorphize Her Divinity?
The moon is scarred. She has lived for billennia. Maybe even zillennia. Was She once a chunk of the Mother Earth? Is Her attraction with Earth's tides the ultimate seduction? She's been proclaimed a Goddess (and a God) by every culture alive and dead. LUNA. SELENE. CHANDRA. HINA. YEMAYA. IXBALANQUE. The Sacred Mirror of the Wiccan faith. THE MAKER. Her poison-blood-curse creates the Vampyr and Werewolf. Her magnetic pull induces the blood-moon of the Creatrix feminine cycle. Her Fertile Grace births our watery children. The One-to-Howl-Under. The Faerie Queen. The-Giver-of-Shivers. The salt-shaker-of-the-sea. The Moon-Man-of-briny-cheese. The Maiden Bride in her glistening white gown, enamored-of by the Sun, eclipsing their Alchemical Wedding. The silver spinner, waxing over our fate. Take care to know Her well. Sing of Her Lunar Eternity. Give thanks and praise for the feast-table, upon which our lives grow, month-to-month, by the Light of the Moon. And for those who have left us, surely they are guided by Her Light to their next destination!
A Beacon for the Souls of Beloved Lunatics....
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