“The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”-C.S. Lewis
a bit more myth and medicine.
The story that began with The Safety Pin Cafe continues. This time the journal kept by Pale Wawae, also known as Joy Weed, opens more deeply the inner world of the evolving sensitive. The two stories The Safety Pin Cafe and The Joy Weed Journal are a pair. You might like to (re) read The Safety Pin Cafe before you begin The Joy Weed Journal, read both stories and savor the connections, metaphors and places where the myth can tickle at lines in your/our journey evoking memories, similarities, queries. Between reading the two stories, do pause and reflect on the characters and the effect of the cafe upon you. Maybe a journal of your own --to make notes, sketch images that might come, intuitive renderings--would be fun. Allow some time and space to feed your soul and your imagination.
Thanks so much for coming to read the Joy Weed Journal. If you journal you know that these pages can include snippets of an unfolding discovery; emotions and entanglements might flood a page; or sometimes a long and detailed dialogue from a memorable day; and other times remembering an event long passed will find its way in your journal. The journal you're about to read includes all of these sorts of recordings. They are the private writings of an aging border witch about to discover more than she expected.
If you have come as part of Our Audience CLICK here.
If you have come 'to read only' CLICK here to start reading.
Mahalo,
Mokihana
P.S. Already, the horse has given me insight into her true nature. Notice the subtle word change?
It's Sunday, and by the Hawaiian Moon Calendar this is a Ku Moon, one of the four Ku Moons following the New Moon. The Audience participation is such a wonderful thing! The handful of long-time friends, family and newly met readers are moving through the story at different paces. Comments are included and conversation has begun here, as well as in personal email. The give-and-take is just what I hoped for, and at the same time, surprising in its form. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSome of the audience has read the story through once; others are savoring and "disciplining" (their word not mine) their reading; and others still are finding their way through the mythic writing that is very new perhaps for them.
There is no rush to read. The pace is open, and the story welcoming of whatever shows itself. I am leaving this comment as much to give thanks to my audience, and the anonymous readers too, for the progress, the process and the first days/nights of The Year of the Wooden Horse.
Aloha kakou (hello everyone),
ReplyDeleteToday and tonight begin the 4 phases of the Hawaiian Moon Calendar called the 'Ole Moons ... the phases of rest, reflection, weeding and repairing.
The Joy Weed Journal began to show itself with the New Moon ... the dark and potential phase when the Moon is hidden -- no light a most feminine of times. Deep Roots. In contrast to the hidden and potential, the medicine story began with the start of the Year of the Horse. There is nothing hidden in the nature or the sight of a horse. But, the value of horse IS in his-her nature as a wild, large being. Unbridled and unsaddled, the horse offers something much different than a beast upon which human's ride.
As these 'Ole Moons unfurl and you read, digest and discover the medicine within The Joy Weed Journal. I would like to leave a link to a conversation with someone who influences my life and my writing. She is the one who reminds me "Dig deep, 'eli'eli kau mai." Link here if you are curious about the deep roots that weave through this medicine story.
http://www.kamehamehapublishing.org/kahonuaola/listen.html
Aloha,
Mokihana