Day 21 - mandala a day - "Dreaming the World" - Frithgarth/Eden

Here sleeps an angelic child... Mabon... child world soul.. a childlike facet of a human collective consciousness...

She's also me, dreaming of a better world... an ideal situation... where all is innocence and unblemished...

In process of drawing, the sheet began as a bridge, and wallpaper as pendulous wisteria blossom... Monet's garden in France... where I've never been... but have imagined as a perfect garden for most of my life...
the iris remained... as did floating marigolds...

And the hearts? Once the circle is drawn around the child in 3 dimensional form, they meet, and become whole...

If life is a garden, I hope I can dream up a kinder, sweeter, softer place...

Day12 - mandala a day - Mabon

This is getting rather personal now... here's my Mabon - my child of light - and the tale I tell myself about my life and how things are... Of course, I'm perfectly at liberty to change this story, any time I wish...

Day 11 - mandala a day - Imbolc

This morning I woke before the dawn... rekindled the embers of the fire, and lay down to listen to a lone, warbling magpie, heralding a new day, and the beginning of a new season...
As I lay, the little dog, snuggling against me, reminded me of a snuggling child... and that the new spring is as a tender child... and that my heart is still that of a child...
I thought: "if I allow the last 40 or so years to drop away.... perhaps I can stand as firmly and as confidently as the child I once was"...
So my spring undertaking is to protect my childlike heart... my Mabon... to nurture it... keeping  alight the flame of love.... the flame of creativity... of healing..

Blessings of Brigit to you, in the South, and to your loved ones, this cold morning! And if you're in the North, enjoying the warm harvest, may it sustain you well, until the year has turned full circle.