[The Void]
fall is here
2007-10-15
Things are for sure changing. Watching the seasons outside my window, stepping on the crispy leaves and feeling the bitter chill that blows through the trees. I have seen more deer in the last few days from a few weeks ago. Hunting season opened up, some have taken refuge in the back four acres. I brought my drum out and sang, its something I have only done alone or with my oldest boy. I sang to the animals and to the trees. Then opened my heart to my ancestors. This is my new home. And I want them all to know. Where I am laying in roots, where I am trying to start a new life.
It felt so crowded at first. You see faces in the trees, in the mysts. You see many feathered birds and squirrels still catching the last bits of nuts and roots. It felt like home.
I made a small fire. Burned some cedar and Fireweed blooms. Offered tobacco and did a small circle dance. I felt the outer barriers of this land with my fingertips...its amazing. I had never experienced something like it. I voiced out to the land where it was safe. Where the fencing line was, where the water still ran and greenery still grew. Little hiding areas, little dens to sleep in safety.
Samhain is coming soon, then the rituals of ancestory and family all t hrough November. We planted in our family staff at the back door entrance. We will make a new one this year out of Oak. After all the daily stuffs and helping paint the new mobil outside I came back into my house, and started to make wreaths and poppets. Over the weekend I collected dried weeds, tistles and thistles. Time to make some decorations with a magical effect for the house. So simple these charms are but have come very calming to me as well. Its not just something pretty but needed, as much as blankets on a cold day or dry wood for the stove. Each act we make is magical so they say, so make your actions meaningful and strong.
Soon we will cut the willows back, it leaves us good branches for weaving and amending other broken projects. The tall grasses are perfectly colored and hollow for the picking on bundles tied with prayers and good thoughts. I am making a few with my long distance friends in mind, with sweet lavender packed in the middle and some ginger for the heat of the hearth.
I miss the closeness I had before with folks around me...but at the same time something is keeping me from feeling so lonely. Maybe my dreams are to come true. That this will not be a lonely hideaway, and my happy go lucky smile still brings in the friendly folks from around town. I have met a few, and some few still travel down to see me.
One friend Diane is coming down to help with the color schemes we want for the house. While still awhile off from actually painting we are trying to buy the paint. Right now it is still the odd pastels of pink and mauve...soft blues. I am sooo not a pastel gal. I was wanting more green in my kitchen. Browns, so a nature theme we have come up with. Stenciling the leaves, acorns and ferns into the woodwork. The livingroom area we think the north wall will be grey like rock. Its textured like it right now with a huge arch that looks like a brick/rock wall. I bought some grape stencils to go there.
The eastern and western walls already have a deep textured wave look to them. Not sure how easy they will be to paint. But looking forward to the more natural color lines coming back into the home.
All in time I suppose. All in time.
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