So the full moon was on the 16th January and as usual, the skies were cloudy and she hid from me. I saw her on the 15th and 17th, but somehow the fullest version always eludes me. Perhaps in February :-)
I chose to try scrying in a bowl of water as my divination, since I am already very familiar with using Oracle cards and wanted to try something a bit different. I wasn't sure exactly what to do, so built a ceremonial fire, added some of my Rowan bark chips to the fire and lit a charcoal disk and put Rowan incense onto it. I also lit several candles and it was only after I had arranged them that I realised I had chosen 7 which is a magical number for me.
I couldn't find a bowl large enough at first and ended up with a metal mixing bowl, which gave me interesting reflections in the water. It was also a little awkward holding the bowl and the wand I had made (from the Flying Rowan) at the same time. It took a long time of gazing with soft focus before anything really appeared, then three dimensional shapes seemed to come up out of the water towards me, quite spiky like crystal shards or harsh mountain peaks. And the mystery man also made another appearance. I also saw several symbols of interlocked arcs and circles, and got an image of a design I need to try and draw or recreate somehow of a woman dancing on the edge of a circle, with ribbons flowing out behind her.
My pyrography kit arrived and I had fun practising with it, though it's easier to make straight lines with the chisel tips than it is to create spirals or write freehand with the fine pointed tips. Since I only need straight lines for the ogham stick symbols, that worked out fine and I marked the two Rowan ogham sticks, as well as all 3 wands. I also played a bit with the wooden hearts I had bought as templates and created a stylised version of my name on one of them :-)
The manifesting has been intriguing. I have started a new project with 3 of the ladies I've met online through the Sassy SHE group. It was very much a random flowing connection, very spontaneous and we have a lot of complementary skills. The plan is to create a women's event of some kind in the autumn, a gathering where women can come together to share, connect and feel nurtured, though the actual structure is still very fluid and we haven't yet decided what format it will take or who our target audience is. We tried a Google+ web meeting, then when that didn't work too well, tried to move to Spreecast. We also struggled with that so we will have a face-to-face meeting which I am hosting on 22 Feb :-)
I am finding that the energies of my two Rowan wands are definitely very different - it will be interesting to see how that changes the way I use them. So far, I'm mostly bound up in creating the wands, I haven't yet found any Rowan trees near to me. Or at least, I don't think I have. I need to take some pictures and collect some berries to take with me to one of the sessions to see if Ros and Jon can identify a couple of trees I've found that I suspect are hawthorn but could possibly be Rowan, or maybe something else entirely!
It's been a very short period of time since we finished with Birch (3 weeks) and we're still a little way from the new moon so although I will be starting work with the next tree this weekend, I have my suspicions that Rowan is not quite done with me yet :-)
We shall see if I have anything to add when I come back to this post to put in the photos, lol.
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