Writing Novels, Alchemy, Tarot and Poetry

I wonder why this one works

2010-06-14T22:38:00.000-07:00

Hello

most of my blogs are in a different dimension after the mandatory migration.

hmmm

laurel

touch the sky

2010-02-18T18:31:00.001-08:00

Hendrix

"excuse me while I touch the sky"

a comma can kill

2010-02-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

swimming writers scream
catch a glimpse of ocean mist
a comma can kill

Laurel

H a I k U

Winter Solstice Approaches- yin time, yes!

2009-12-17T09:52:00.000-08:00

by Laurel Kahaner » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:32 am

Appreciating this thread, the word vulnerable, and the quote of one step at a time on the staircase, stay with me, as if I am writing a poem, and a vulnerable staircase either invites me to climb up or to climb down or not to climb at all. Climbing up the staircase I begin to understand, climbing down the staircase I begin to feel, more deeply with both, climbing up and down the staircase. If I stay on this particular stair, which, of course is crumbling, I am going to miss the plot point, in life and in writing that is the next step, up or down.

Winter Solstice approaches,

The hermit is thriving and sometimes I love the feeling of running up a staircase.

Teaching yoga and all.....

journey well,

laurel@symbolicbridging.com

Aisling aka Laurel

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ghastly

2009-11-06T22:59:00.000-08:00

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Cerberus Sleuthing Fade-In

2009-09-16T21:45:00.000-07:00

C S F

Cerberus Sleuthing Fade-In

I'm going to do Nano!!!!

2008-10-21T11:10:00.001-07:00

More soon!

Oidhche mhath - Good Night in Gaelic

2007-04-06T14:28:00.000-07:00

Click here: Gealach Bandia Diomhair Cruthaich

Sybaritic Word Play

2007-02-07T08:57:00.000-08:00

someone once said when we imagine we begin to fall in love and love requires a really excellent imagination. Clearly relation ships benefit profoundly from an auspicious affinity with the stream of eternal images.
Fecund concatenations
sybaritic word p l a y rhapsody sussuration of the approaching third quarter moon and Moonquicksilver playful perambulations enjoy the plethora of seraglio's the absolute de light of communicating with words a slap dash daring tightrope walkunderwater in full view of the dragon who is ancient, youthful and ubiquitously alive.enjoy this day

Calcinatio in Alchemy- Fire

2007-01-07T23:15:00.000-08:00

within the Alchemical Cauldron
There has all ways been fire.calcinatio in alchemy the operation of fire.how much fire is needed for this novel in this moment. .there can be too little fire or far too much or there can be just the right amount. Laurel KahanerTransformational Counselor e-mail Laurel@SymbolicBridging.com Explore the Mysterium Magnum

what to say, a complicated dance of rapture

2006-12-05T21:48:00.000-08:00

and timing - artfullness and craft. doing my best to stay connected and it is challenging and absolutely worth it and today is full of complications and still the rhythm is with my novel and tomorrow i will write again. i love it..when i listen to it i am deeply pleased. hope you will be. laurel

Deep in the Writing Adventures

2006-11-26T10:46:00.000-08:00

Myriad Possibilities and gifts from the liminal worlds as i am blessedly contained in my Novel and the other mystery book too. Many Mysteries. Blessings, Laurel

Music to write novel to - Peatbog Faeries

2006-11-16T10:48:00.000-08:00

Click here: Moon Musings for Alchemy: Libra Moon Today

writing emerging from deep ancient peace

2006-11-09T10:09:00.000-08:00

deep in forest of writing

2006-11-05T22:49:00.000-08:00

image of forest of writing was to upload but appears to be in liminal space as am i

my novel sounded brilliant in Skye

2006-10-20T19:57:00.000-07:00

so very pleased - taped my reading of it up to last completed chapter - it sounded beautiful as i listened in the airplane, on Kererra and on Skye - excited - now to finish it - dark of the moon now - tomorrow night is new moon and time to glide towards completion - blessed be

an island tower, a ferry ride from Oban in Scotland

2006-10-14T20:47:00.000-07:00

clues and keys and mysteries

2006-09-24T23:13:00.000-07:00

bleachtaire, noun = detective bleachtaireacht, noun = detectingúrscéal bleachtaireachta = detective novel

New Moon Approachs - another one for refinement

2006-09-17T22:29:00.000-07:00

Click here: larkin-mystery-at-gloaming: if you bring forth what is within you

the link will take you to where i wrote de story instead of destory

seems they are related
to refinement
bemusement
amusement

and a muse

best
Lark

Cooperation with the Inevitable - Pluto Pleasures

2006-09-12T09:25:00.000-07:00

Click here: duende and desire: Cooperate with the Inevitable

Writing going well

other than conscious mind and
conscious mind in exquisite
communications

love this dance

many blessings

Scotland calls

namaste
laurel

writing two fabulous books which you will love

2006-09-01T19:47:00.000-07:00

back to writing - see you soon

infinite blessings on the creative process

tis to create
and in creating live a being more intense
that we endow with what form we fancy
gaining as we give the life we image.

Lord Byron

journey well

kind regards
laurel

Mystery of Writing Three Simultaneously

2006-08-04T11:20:00.000-07:00

Click here: larkin-mystery-at-gloaming: Clue Number One for this Moment

Solutio

2006-07-27T22:19:00.000-07:00

Interesting Alchemy with all this Heat - the writing container needs to be cool and able to easily dive into. so much heat outside, not wanting to write with too much fire just now. steam works well and another deeper dive into the Mysterious Waters and surfacing with the next work. Solution - being dissolved in that which is truly apropos to dissolve into Now.

The Transformer and that which is to be Transformed

2006-07-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

Mercury, the Magician, Mercurious, Hermes - relates to every type of communication. Love the Alchemical awareness that the Mercury part of us is both the Transformer and that which is to be transformed. Whenever we are at crossroads, and when are we not, Mercury is the guide to the all worlds. The Mind in its infinite aspects and ability to connect us to the higher words, this world, the underworld is like quicksilver in the rapidity with which an enlightened thought can transform into an underworld invitation. As we become ever more aware Transformers we are able to Transform in Magical/Miraculous ways that are true to who we are. Mercury was at a certain place in the sky the moment we are born. as we come to honor and to know our own Mercury and the Mecury principle this threshold can become particularly scintillating in its capacity to trasform whatever it is we have in our alchemical containers now into gold. looking forward to next Thursday. Mercury is such fun. a muse ing too, blessings Laurel

exciting

2006-07-02T22:39:00.000-07:00

when the flow magic , alchemical marriage in the writing process is unfolding with just enough mystery and ...it has been said that whenever there is a real meeting between conscious and other than conscious it is experienced as erotic and slightly terrifying and sub lime. yes ! merci

Tarot Card for Approaching New Moon

2006-06-24T10:33:00.001-07:00

Click here: THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Tarot Card for Approaching New Moon

2006-06-24T10:33:00.000-07:00

Click here: THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Summer Solstice invites longer nights

2006-06-19T07:58:00.000-07:00

Summer Solstice Wed morning invites , initiates , begets the first impulse moving towards Winter Solstice. After reaching the apex of the Sunny Side of the Mountain one then takes the first step towards the Shady Side of the Mountain. Full Force Yang - Summer Solstice calls forth the initial movement towards Full Force Yin - Winter Solstice. Summer Solstice begins when the Sun moves into Cancer. Winter Solstice begins when the Sun moves into Capricon. perhaps writing a haiku today to integrate this will invite in dreams that honor both Solstices on Tuesday Eve. Eve of Solstice. time of honoring, aligning, integrating. blessed be. laurel

Fairy Tales - read with lunar light

2006-06-05T22:02:00.000-07:00

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."
~Albert Einstein~Scientist (1879-1955)

Gemin-friendly Gremlin - Mischevious Imp - Gemini

2006-05-26T10:37:00.000-07:00

Click here: Moon Musings for Alchemy: New Moon in Gemin tonight - Gyfu Rune- A Gift this link will take you to what was written for Gemini New Moon
kind regards - laurel

fourth quarter moon - reminds us

2006-05-19T21:00:00.000-07:00

to look at our new moon intention. see how it is unfolding through this lunar cycle. is it the same as it was at the beginning of the cycle? has it shape shifted?

are you pleased, or not especially ecstatic?

always room for refinement.

Click here: Moon Musings for Alchemy: Fourth Quarter Moon- Eclectic meets Sensual

fourth quarter moon approaching

journey well

Pluto and Venus in a volatile romance

2006-05-10T22:55:00.000-07:00

Full Moon approaching.

Scorpio Full Moon, Taurus sun.

Pluto rules Scorpio, Venus rules Taurus.

the alchemical recipe

"separate the subtle from the dense sweetly with great ingenuity."
infinite variations on this.

separate the subtle from the tense wisely with great ingenuity, etc.

Pluto and Venus have an opportunity to challenge each other and/or enchance each other.
Pluto and Venus can also just plain oppose each other.

a possible scenario is Pluto says to Venus - much deeper please
Venus says to Pluto - fine but make sure the eros is flowing so i can feel the lovely bits
then i will go as deep as you desire
very deep

Happy Full Moon

cheers
Laurel

Prelude, Interlude, Denude

2006-05-04T11:09:00.000-07:00

Writing going brilliantly. what a blessing!

Pearls of the Priestess

2006-04-25T22:57:00.000-07:00

The High Priestes is the Moon and Memory

the New Moon draws close

dream time,

feeling into next intention time

Lunar Cycles spiral deeper and deeper
within the cauldron of knowing
within the Alchemical Container
within this moment
now

Namaste
Laurel

Beltaine approaches

2006-04-22T21:51:00.000-07:00

Click here: duende and desire: Enthusiasm and the Quest Although we are now at Last quarter Phase of the Moon , still it is wise to begin to distill what is being learned in Ares cycle and to let it shape shift into Taurus Cycle blessings with all this the way this post is being created is shape shifting itself letters show up where they wish to and disappear where they wish to i hope it will arrive but we shall see blessed be Click here: Sagittarius New Moon

Taurus New Moon

2006-04-22T21:40:00.000-07:00

Click here: Sagittarius New Moon Although it is last quarter phase, one of my absolute favorite phases, still i have been guided to write Taurus New Moon now. more will be revealed Namaste Laurel

Ebullience

2006-04-16T22:15:00.000-07:00

Click here: duende and desire: Enthusiasm and the Quest

Looking for the cosmic egg

the no thing

home of the Fool in Tarot

the Scintillating Intelligence

that which emits SPARKS

laurel

The Phases of the Moon

2006-04-14T22:11:00.000-07:00

Exploring the Phases of the Moon

New MOON - Feeling into what is wanting to be born in this nascent lunar cycle

CRESCENT - Clarifying intention and deepening commitment

FIRST QUARTER - Anticipating a challenge.Being connected to that whichkeeps one strong and connected to intention

GIBBOUS - Growing Awareness

FULL MOON - IlluminationRealization

DISSEMINATING - Integration

LAST QUARTERA challenge to deepen and embody what is being learned.

BALSAMIC Sharing and reflecting on the cycle .Cultivating awareness of what to let be and what to carry into the new cycle.

DARK Inner time preparing for new beginning

Laurel Transformational Counselor- Explore the Mysterium Magnum

The Moon is the High Priestess

2006-04-10T22:44:00.000-07:00

Click here: duende and desire: seeking the High Priestess within the Moon
she is the Uniting Intelligence
the color blue

that part of each of us that remembers the mysteries
that can touch memories and symbols
as secret doorways
to amazing worlds

she holds the book of knowledge
and if we approach her, the moon,
with respect, love, appreciation and,,,,,,,,,
then a breath and a lunar phase at a time
she reveals her mysteries
uniting intelligence

namaste
laurel

the night left open to reveal a silver chalice

2006-04-06T23:14:00.000-07:00

Click here: duende and desire link is to photogaphs of the first New Moon cycle after the Spring Equinox and whatever else i've written or photographed when you arrive HERE Now

Silver in the Sky

2006-04-03T22:24:00.000-07:00

Click here: duende and desire: La Luna The Moon is approaching first quarter early Wednesday Morning

Tis to create

2006-03-31T09:36:00.000-08:00

and in creating live
a being more intense
that we endow
with what form we fancy
gaining as we give the life we image

Lord Byron

it is a bit more complex but still

tis to create
health and creativity - yogic free flow of energy deeply related

and in creating live
when we create our sense of being alive deepens

a being more intense
It has always been intense
but intensely good and intensely aware and empowered
is connected to how deeply we let the great mystery move through us
the profound aliveness of the Alchemical Marriage between
conscious and other than conscious

that we endow
that we refine and pour
the creative into - that we give birth to
that we grow in the creating of - the manifesting of
the imagination that is all
imaginatio

with what form we fancy
interesting
i feel it is more that we endow with
what form needs to be birthed within us now
fancy is fun
necessitiy is also a part of this
and responsibility
and deep listening

gaining as we give the life we image
Absolutely

creative blessings
and love
laurel aka larking aka............

Fire Ares - First New Moon after Spring Equinox

2006-03-28T19:41:00.000-08:00

Go to: New Moon Exploration

to discover more

much more

enjoy the cycle

much stirring

namaste

l

Salutations to the Moon

2006-03-23T10:50:00.000-08:00

Came upon

Lunar Salutation this Morning

Om Sri Chandraya Namaha

Om and Salutations to the Moon

Namaste

image uploaded but vanished

2006-03-18T19:51:00.000-08:00

wonder in what worlds it now lives

can feel the disseminating phase of the moon

and the Approaching Equinox

and ....................

what photograph most illuminates this day

namaste
laurel

today's photo is Intimations of Spring

2006-03-18T19:46:00.000-08:00

Knowledge

2006-03-11T11:03:00.000-08:00

needs to be embodied

Namaste

the mystery of relation ship

2006-03-01T22:23:00.000-08:00

read something about love and
ways each of us express this energy
and receive this energy

how very easy it is to have very different languages
and have the person
you are loveing
not
understand yours
and you perhaps not understand theirs
which brings
us back to communication
which is lovely
when it is present and
presence is good too

what brings what is communicated into being
is shakti- the feminine energy- that is growing
ever stronger

Glimmers within the Gloaming

2006-02-25T20:52:00.000-08:00

Click here: Sagittarius New Moon This link will take you to New Moon Section in my site for the Pisces New Moon February 27. may it be a deeply creative cycle Namaste

Imagining Pisces

2006-02-18T09:41:00.000-08:00

Click here: duende and desire: I am Imagining Sun Moves into Pisces today - very much the dreamer. in the blog world the space button is not working. i love the spaciousness that can be created - not so big on all the words being forced so close together - but well hmmmmmmmmmmm there appear to be other ways to create spaciousness and i am also imagining lovely ways to connect. blessings , pleasure and peace laurel

Not much real insouciance today.

2006-02-16T18:48:00.000-08:00

and then again, the night is nascent

breathe freely today

2006-02-14T08:53:00.000-08:00

today does not align with a particularly significant turning of the natural wheel.

although it has many amplifications.

breathe freely and feel the lingering effects of the Full Moon.

feel the potential of this amazing moment in time
embodied
and
free

blessed be
namaste
laurel

Blessings this Leo Full Moon

2006-02-12T10:47:00.000-08:00

Click here: duende and desire: Leo Full Moon - lots of fire and Aquarian detachment

That which emits SPARKS

2006-02-08T10:27:00.000-08:00

Click here: duende and desire: Scintillating Intelligence

While Mercury remains in Aquarius

Scintillating Intelligence strong
and Uranian energy

when, very soon, Mercury moves into Pisces
then watery flows
Neptunian energy.

both are divine

namaste
laurel

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Chiron and Neptune are all

2006-01-28T21:44:00.000-08:00

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Chiron and Neptune are all
in Aquarius at this New Moon.
this cycle asks us to tune into /attune to our unique vibration
at the next level
what is the next step
if we take at least a step each lunar cycle things will change
if we take a leap every no thing will transform
nurture the unusual this cycle
cultivate brilliance
have fabulous conversations/communications that contain the power
to Transform

in this moment

2006-01-23T23:01:00.000-08:00

all i know is that it seems a long time since i left tracks here.
though i am

writing my novel

and that is what initiated this particular blog.

and it takes a great deal in the overall everythingness to
stay focused on the novel.

and
once again
the sentence i love
the quintessence of it when it is distilled and embodied

"the essence of anything that grows is as much an exposure to as an arising from."

almost dark of the moon
almost imbolg
time of quickening

ahhhhhhhhhhhh
back to the book

Mandala's, Mandorla's and Bindus

2006-01-05T09:59:00.000-08:00

ahhhhhhhhh

welcome

revisiting the Mandala
like the sacred circle that it is
that we are
circling within all the circles and cycles of our lives

what is the center point now?
what centers us
contains us
invokes the center in us
that is connected to every other center

on this day

musing on initiations as what is really wanted when we celebrate
our

Solar Return ings

and the labyrinth of each gesture
to invoke the center
again and again
ever deeper
more nourshed
from a wise
solstice honoring

blessed be
namaste
laurel

cycles within cycles

2005-12-23T17:49:00.000-08:00

awoke reflecting on Wheel of Fortune
feeling the soothing cycle of Solstice
and the frenetic one of Christmas

When Santa was a Shaman

2005-12-14T23:16:00.000-08:00

Winter Solstice approaches

darkening magic time of inner musing
touching the mystery
as deeply as we can
stillness, silence
whispers

wonders

deepening times

transformative times

muse ing times

Novel Writing Month was Great and continues

2005-12-04T10:15:00.000-08:00

Click here: National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month

this may take you to library card and a fun medley of possibilities

how to get to Skye

2005-11-26T21:14:00.000-08:00

How to get to Skye
From the west coast of Scotland, there are 3 routes onto the island:
by bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh
by ferry from Glenelg
by ferry from Mallaig
Full details given below
By road, Kyle of Lochalsh is: 75 miles north of Fort William 80 miles south-west of Inverness 180 miles north of Glasgow

Laurel KahanerTransformational Counselor e-mail Laurel@SymbolicBridging.com Explore the Mysterium Magnum

driving up the coast tonight

2005-11-19T17:04:00.000-08:00

There is something about driving and not knowing where you are driving to

or walking and letting something guide you that knows a way you might not ever have discovered

or seeing a star and letting its light guide you deeper into the woods

some call this midlife
or midnight,
twilight
or gloaming

It is the spaciousness after you exhale before you inhale again
sometimes a long exhalation is needed .

we are in the darkening of the Scorpio Lunar Cycle
she will not make herself known in this form for another year
Winter Solstice draws closer

may the darkening time
nourish something deeply beautiful

blessings and pleasure
Namaste
laurel

snowcones, smoothies,chainsaws and haiku

2005-11-13T21:44:00.000-08:00

saw this once on a billboard on one of those out of the way
off the beaten track roads
(who beats it?)

anyway

i sort of like how it goes together

Snowcones, Smoothies and chainsaws

the three whatever
as in
haiku
5
7
5
syllables or whatever you feel
mercury about to go retro grade

and health is a really good thing
wishing you well
namaste
mistress a muse

Stirred but not entirely shaken

2005-11-09T19:14:00.000-08:00

The Dare

Have your protagonist work for an Alchemist who has never been alive and has a strong desire for the best wine.Have the protagonist be someone who doesn't drink and yet is absolutely consumed with desire to learn what this Alchemist offers

.have the protagonist be dating someone who likes wine alot and after the third glass begins to speak in Alchemical Recipes.have the third alchemical recipe each night hold the key to something that has to do with "separating the subtle from the dense sweetly with great ingenuity."from Emerald Tabletblessings to Mercurious
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Distillations of Wisdom

2005-11-07T09:11:00.000-08:00

Someone once said

"Attention concentrated is the first distillation of wisdom."

so many threads in the tapestry
all luminous
irreplacable
exacting
and to choose one
and draw it forward
and to let the others also live and grow
but to know which
one
is the central thread
weaving all else together
is sthe distillation
in this moment
in this breath
NOW

blessings and peace
laurel

Solitary Refinement

2005-11-01T19:21:00.000-08:00

Definitely writing novel as Scorpio Alchemical Adventure this month.

This link will take you to what I rapidly wrote to honor Scorpio New Moon

Click here: Sagittarius New Moon

May it be a sultry and serendipitous month.

blessings
laurel

Scintillating what have you and she hare a zade

2005-10-24T23:36:00.000-07:00

long strange day and jupiter almost to move into scorpio and yet if there is the free flow of words then there is room or a room or even a rom for the magic to be revealed.

Teaching Hierophant/Shaman/
story teller/Chiron - so many ways of accessing the Archetype of Taurus through the Tarot.
so much moving thorugh the cauldron and spinning inside it too, and within the cauldron
there is a memory that is not fully felt and yet it is feeling its way into the
texture and pattern of the story that the Hierophant/Storyteller is about to tell through me.

time to segue to the dream world and receive the bridge to the transpersonal
and to bridge whatever else needs to be bridged so that at All Hallows this can
be fully conceived and born a breath at a time.

ah yes, always the Fool.

The Storyteller

2005-10-16T10:16:00.000-07:00

Day before Ares Full Moon.

A new bookcase, tall like the ladder reaching to Stars, becoming Stars, books
becoming stars, star dust like when we follow the North Node in our Sky Map
sometimes there is Star Dust as wayshower, as a gift for doing the Alchemical Yoga Stretch
to embody the Stellar Pattern we are asked to share.

Books and bookshelves are Sacred Containers for the infinite knowledge and wisdom that is bestowed and not exactly stowed away but definitely we want to remember.
Memory being a gift of the High Priestess , helping us align with that which is true to our Soul.

and this bookcase has a magical playfulness in its design and it let's me build stairways with side and slide doors and to differentiate and yet integrate the vast
areas of learning that i love so well.

Symbolicbridging.com the name of my site and my work and that
which i love.

Symbols are transformers of Consciousness.

I write to save lives
perhaps mine.

thanks to all those who have written books that have been stepping stones.
and those that have designed magical bookcases to behold and
to uphold and to hold books.

merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.

Laurel aka Alyx aka larkin

Scarlet Red, Sulphur and Alchemy of Emperor

2005-10-13T11:33:00.000-07:00

Teaching the Emperor tonight

The Ancient of days and Youth of Eternal Spring

Ares, cardinal Fire that which initiates the Spring Equinox and a great deal
more.

ruled by Mars which in Tarot is the Tower.
if one plays with The Tower Moving Through the Emperor one can see why
there is a need for containment and foundation .

Also a need for reviewing to see what rule the King plays in our psyche.
and does the old order need to be sacrificed so that something new and
vital can be erected.

something that is connected with Nature and the Empress. But that also
helps shape her ever lustrous flow into ye olde Novel.

a page a day would be the Emperor
the flow of novel everywhere in everything is Empress.

write

I write to save lives.
perhaps mine

and there is Sulphur
more to be revealed.

The Lady and Lord of the Green

2005-10-10T10:13:00.000-07:00

There has blessedly been writing each day though i've been deep in the Green Woods.

Now segueing back into writing rhythms here and teaching the Emperor Archetype on Thursday - day of Jupiter. Thors's day and that relates to Zeus and Zeus relates to the Emperor.

The Emperor also relates to Ares and we are approaching an Ares Full Moon..
The color of the Emperor is Scarlet Red.

Empress Alchemically relates to Copper that which conducts energy
and Emperor relates to Iron. That which forges forward.
Empress relates to eros - connecting things, fuseing them
Emperor to Logos - Separating and reflecting to create new forms
Empress amplifyies
Emperor looks back and sees what will work with the form that is being created.
without the Emperor the Empress can create chaos
without the Empress the Emperor has nothing to put in order

Having written thus far i am reminded of
what a gift it is to align my life

with the lunar cycle and with the Archetypes of Tarot, Alchemy, Astrology, Mythology and................

the phase of the Libra New Moon Cycle
and the archetype of the Emperor
are contributing to my feeling every more able to sustain the tension of the opposites (libra) until something beautiful(libra) arises and leads to a new form (emperor)

there is something about the Emperor and Sulphur that hot firey energy that is so powerful that it wants and does not want to be contained in form.

and this leads to the pages for today
and the combination of alchemy and sacred play
the balance of all that is ever shape shifting
and the coagulation (earthing) of this fecund frolic
into something that is both scintillating and grounded
simultaneously.

write well
musingly yours

First Day of Libra New Moon - First Page of Novel

2005-10-03T17:00:00.000-07:00

Ultimately that's what it comes down to a new moon or something strong enough
to detonate any distractions so that the attraction to writing a page a day of a novel
becomes like a river of wayward ramblers on the black hills in wales watching wild black horses.

waiting until one pattern within one play of horse mane tale and a remembered tale.
and a connection to the heirophant, story teller merlin and the tale we've come here to tell.

writing saves lives. perhaps mine and if not now when. and whatever is written
is something that actually has a musical score behind it and there is always refinement.

emerald tablet
separating the subtle from the dense sweetly with great ingenuity
and there are infinite translations
infinte excuses
infinite lovely excursionss
and although
time does not exist it is also a very
quickly flowing water of an incarnation
and at last and at least and lately
the need to write has become far stronger
than the need not to
for now that has to be the first day of a new cycle
and
as bradbury said "plot is the footprints the characters leave in the snow."

i know my first novel did that and it didn't quite come all around to make a mandala. it got lost and somehow there is always a thread
the art form is in finding it
and someone else said
although it was about a short story which is probably a far better idea
that all we need to know is how to see as far as the headlights can light the way in the fog.

o.. k. well there you have it for now.

alyx