{"id":237,"date":"2018-02-25T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordmagicglobal.com\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2018-02-25T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:40:20","slug":"moonwriting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordmagicglobal.com\/moonwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonWriting"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]The Moon is a Woman<\/span><\/p>\n

And I Am the Moon.<\/p>\n

The Waves leap off my Mind<\/p>\n

And my Heart pounds with excitement.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 1964 Laurel Airica<\/span><\/p>\n

Where WordMagic Comes From<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the 15th C. English printer, publisher, translator and author, William Caxton, native speakers of English were as if ‘born under the domination of the Moon.’ That certainly fits my experience.<\/p>\n

Caxton, I believe, was commenting on the mutability of English in the multitude of forms in which it existed at that time whereas my own sense of being ‘tied\/tide’ to the Moon is something very different. It relates to how compelled I have felt throughout my life by my relationship with both the Moon and the English language, and how strongly I\u2019ve desired to discover how and why we three connect so strongly.<\/p>\n

Selenotropism: Growth in Response to Moonlight
\nAs a child, I had many questions that seemed so basic to me that I did not dare ask them for fear of revealing how backward I was. After all, I reasoned, how could one live a life until these fundamental issues were resolved? Given that everyone around me was going about their lives without apparent disturbance, it seemed, I assumed that they must have long since figured things out. And if I could just \u2018read\u2019 their behavior, I could intuit their conclusions.<\/p>\n

There is just one question of this nature that I still remember from those early years\u2014and I remember it only because I read it years later in a novel by D.H. Lawrence (perhaps it wasThe Rainbow). In my recollection, a young woman, while embracing a soldier, feels her heart contract inside her like a hard, cold bead.<\/p>\n

I was so familiar with that painful feeling and so relieved to know that I was not the only one who had ever felt that frightening tightness. The young woman in the story then wonders to herself how she can possibly come together with another human being until she has centered the Moon in her own being.<\/p>\n

\u2018Yes!\u2019 I thought emphatically. \u2018Now why don\u2019t people talk about that?\u2019 That question continued to puzzle me for years\u2014in part because I did not know whether the centering process was meant to be literal or metaphoric. Years later, I discovered it was a literal experience that the Moon, Herself, initiated. But that’s a story for another time.<\/p>\n

I had a number of other profound lunar synchronicities. Yet I still do not know the depth of interconnection I share with the Moon and the English language. I suspect I will be exploring this for as long as I’m incarnate on this plane. What I do know is that I envision the possibility of turning the tide on the ‘See of Human Consciousness’ so that we are no longer the instrument of dead ideas embedded in the letters and words to which we give life as we speak and wRite. Let us, instead, create a global movement for linguistic improvement that enables us to speak into existence a whole new world of possibilities:<\/p>\n

For if our words so melt the heart
\nthey start the Milk of Humankindness flowing
\n\u2013 so that any time we speak our mind
\nwe set another flower growing \u2013
\nthen I believe, before our very eyes,
\nwe human beings, like butterflies
\nwill fully metamorphosize.<\/p>\n

from Open Heart Synchrony<\/p>\n

As a daughter
\nof my Mother Tongue,
\nI\u2019m old as Earth \u2013 thus Ever Young;
\nand blessed with alchemystic gifts to write transforming hieroglyphs
\nand speak, whenever She elects
\nthose L-M-N-tal dialects
\nby witch the Savage Beast is charmed
\nand human animosities disarmed.<\/p>\n

But to do so,
\nI first turn to the Moon and I ask to be filled
\nwith Her lambent light love songs and sylvan refrains.<\/p>\n

Then,
\nHer poetry flows to me like liquid spilled
\nfrom the milky white vessels
\nof silvery veins.<\/p>\n

Her kinetic,
\nprophetic, alphabetic poetics
\n\u2013 with their holo-grammatic logo-rhythmic magnetics
\nand ecstatic electro-acoustic phonetics \u2013
\nhave the power, I am told, to attain that threshold
\nat which base mettle changes \u2013
\nfrom mere led to pure goaled!<\/p>\n

from Meta-Poetic-Logo-Rhythms<\/p>\n

Very few people are aware that we can unite with the energies of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Space and that they can provide us with the highest intensity of intimacy that a person can experience. One of the deepest pleasures and joys available to a human body comes through extending our recognition and appreciation into other worlds and then letting ourselves get carried away.\u201d Tillak[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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