Imbolc Waxing Wild Moon
Blue Cloud Abbey Marvin, South Dakota
A group of about 30 Missouri Synod Lutheran church women have come for retreat. Their energy differs from ours. A lot.
Frank played a wonderful adagio movement by a Spanish composer named Rogdriguez. A very moving piece.
We have a conversation started about a Woolly Way, a brief evocative expression of our Tao. Our 20 + years together commend us by their evidence of stablity, intention, commitment. We have never tried to spread or split ourselves, though we have taken on the occasional international associates. We have two in St. Petersburg and one somewhere else I can’t recall right now.
Blue Cloud Abbey has a distinctive Plains Indian imprint. The American Indian Cultural Resource center has a collection of Lakota beadwork, parfleching and quill work that contains several museum quality pieces.
The Wild Moon has grown fat, swelling almost full. It colors the clouds and gives the night sky a romance. Venus also hangs in the northern sky. Here the sky runs on and on, the earth gives little obstacle to the eye. The spirit takes a breath here, fills my lungs with the light of the Wild Moon. Tonight we dance on the prairie, the wind in our hair and moonlight shining out through our eyes.
