{"id":7908,"date":"2023-10-27T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2023-10-28T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:30:53","slug":"full-moon-samhain-salutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=7908","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon & Samhain Salutations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hunter’s Moon<\/strong><\/span>
\nthis full moon reaches its peak @ 9.24pm<\/span><\/span> (UK<\/span><\/span>)<\/span>
\nSaturday 28th October<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

Samhain*<\/strong> is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season<\/span>
\nand beginning of winter<\/span><\/p>\n

celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October<\/span>
\n*<\/strong>precurser of Halloween<\/span>
\n\"\"\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>
\nhonouring darkness, fear and sorrow, and their transmutation<\/em><\/span>
\nthis ancient festival honours the ancestors,
\ntheir spirit and wisdom,<\/span>
\nand acknowledges other and all worlds<\/span>
\n<\/span>a time the Celts believed the veil between
\nthe living & the dead was especially thin<\/span>
\n🍂🍂<\/span>🍂🍂<\/span>🍂🍂<\/span>🍂🍂<\/span><\/span>🍂🍂<\/span>
\nIt\u2019s the time of the crone or wise woman<\/span>
\nMany countries celebrated and recognised the female goddess at this time of the year<\/span>
\nAs we know from history in the Middle Ages<\/span>
\nthe wise woman became a threat, an object of fear.<\/span>
\nHag, originally meaning holy woman,<\/span>
\nsoon incorporated women who were midwives and herbalists<\/span>
\nwho quickly became labelled as witches and were ruthlessly persecuted….<\/span>
\ncelebrating elders
\ncrones
\nhags
\nolder women
\nall women who have owned their agency and are<\/span>
\npowerfull, vulnerable, creative, empowering, compassionate<\/span>…
\nwe’re dropping the derogatory meanin<\/span><\/span>gs these names have come to imply
\n\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n? <\/span>which women creatives do you admire and respect<\/span> ?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

one of the elders we respect & admire enormously:<\/span>
\nLaurie Anderson a<\/strong> wonderfully creative & heart opening being<\/span>
\nalways exploring
\nher recent VR<\/strong> film\/video collaboration<\/span>
\nChalkroom<\/em> is a library of stories<\/span>
\n❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>❤️<\/a>
\nfor more insights see<\/span>
\nLaurie Anderson: The 60 Minutes interview<\/em><\/a><\/span> and
\nSisters with Transistors<\/em><\/a><\/span> (1hr 22mn)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒
\nmore<\/span> fabulous<\/span> elders-creatives<\/span><\/span>, still<\/span> showing up<\/span>
\nPatti Smith\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Louwrien Wijers<\/span><\/span>
\nJudy Chicago\u00a0 <\/span>The Guerrilla Girls<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nMarianne Williamson<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

& we honour just a few of those that have passed\u2026.
\n1924-2023 Dorothy Bohm<\/strong>
\n1915-2022 Carmen Herrera<\/strong>
\n1928-2019 Agn\u00e8s Varda<\/strong> film director photographer artist
\n1928 – 2014 Maya Angelou<\/strong> activist author performer
\n1914-2001 Tove Jansson<\/strong> illustrator painter writer
\n1907-1997 Dora Maar <\/strong>photographer, painter, and poet
\n1889-1978 Hannah H\u00f6ch<\/strong> collagist & photomontagist
\n1862-1944 Hilma af Klint<\/strong> artist
\n1593-1656 Artemisia Gentileschi<\/strong> painter<\/span><\/p>\n

💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎<\/span><\/p>\n

❤️Feeling to share heartfelt sorrow for the unbearable suffering<\/span>
\nof all beings across the world, evoking unbearable compassion.<\/span>
\nTo recognise too the peace zone starts here with me❤️<\/span>
\nGreat appreciation for all that we have been gifted❤️<\/span>
\nfor community, friends, home…<\/span>
\ngreat gratitude for my wisdom teacher Ziji Rinpoche<\/span> ❤️<\/span><\/p>\n

staying open to this great sorrow
\nkeeping a tender & open heart
\nbearing the pain
\nall are such gifts
\nreminding me we are indeed all one
\nnot<\/em> alone, not separate
\n\"\"
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\n\"\"
\n🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉<\/em><\/span>
\nOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing <\/span>
\nand rightdoing there is a field<\/span>
\nI’ll meet you there
\n<\/span>Rumi
\n🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉🕉
\n<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\nsome recent explorations
\nfrom us @ kitchen sink studio
\n\"\" \"\" \"\"
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

continuing the series….3<\/span> books by the bed<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" \"\" \"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

thank you for visiting<\/span>
\nwe hope you got value<\/span><\/p>\n

….and trust it was worth it💞<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunter’s Moon this full moon reaches its peak @ 9.24pm (UK) Saturday 28th October \u00a0 Samhain* is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of…<\/p>\n

Read MoreFull Moon & Samhain Salutations<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":36,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","excerpt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7973,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions\/7973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}