Lughnasa Lughnasa Moon
There is, among us and within us, a current that pulls toward deep water, toward a cold darkness. It takes the warmer waters of our surface interactions and draws them down into the crevasses of our psyche. There the surface loses its bounce, its vitality and becomes absorbed.
We often make the mistake of assuming that this current’s engine lies within our experience and our personality, in that highly fungible interface between who we believe ourselves to be and the swirling mass of life outside us. But for most the powerful motive force which takes us into the bleakness is both more and less personal.
It is more personal because its constituents are in the stuff which make us, our DNA. It is less personal for the same reason, it is pre-psychological, implanted not in our character but in our chemistry. Yet, it manifests itself, or at least brings its influence to bear through psychology, through the mood shifts and terrible ideas that flash up from below, rising like leviathans.
