This month's Community Moon Bling started Working on me as soon as I finished September’s. I got one of those ‘polite suggestions’ of what I needed to do. It was a copper feather. Now I haven’t made a copper feather in about 4 years, pretty much from this month. When I made them then, it was for a group of folks that was/is near and dear to me. To this day we are still closely connected. I knew when I made them that these feathers had an extraordinarily unique magic to them. More on that in a bit.
So, I knew the ‘what’ I just wasn’t sure how it was going to come together. This is a forging at the time of Samhain, and in the past, the Work I have done is particularly juicy. At first, I had the idea that it would represent one of the many feathers that are attached to a bird. Like if we think that we are an individual feather and the generations before us are as well, it takes each and all of us to take flight. If we double the number of ancestors in each generation, 2 parents, 4 grandparents, and so on, we can see that by the time we are back 10 full generations, we have the potential for 1024 ancestors. Mathematically. And you have been forged by all those ancestors! The feather would represent a piece of the whole.
And I thought, well, that can be deep and have the potential to be an excellent and powerful way to honor our ancestors. Then Hellene happened. It is still happening. And it will be happening for years to come. I grew up in WNC. That’s my homeland. Those are my people. It was like when Ben Kenobi said, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” I felt that. Hard. As news started to come out, I wept. I Keened. I am still heartbroken. As I am sure many who read this have, had, had experienced.
Then after Hellene happened.
It is no big secret that our Country is divided. You can’t watch/read any form of news and not be told that. A lot of it is very emotionally charged. As I am sure most of you have, I also have extraordinarily strong feelings about my Country. I proudly served my Country. I had friends cross over in that same service. It gives me great angst to witness what is happening to and in my Country today. So very divisive.
Then after Hellene happened.
The outpouring of help! From countless groups. Countless businesses. Countless organizations. Countless individuals. Helping. No agenda, just help. Whether it was physically, or in support via donations, and drives are still going strong as I write this. Massive amounts of energy are going into helping. Some way. Any-way, I’ve seen children, young kids, donate their own toys so others may have something to play with Makes my eyes leak). As disastrous, and devastating, and catastrophic, and crushing and more has/have/had occurred in my Southern Appalachia, I also see hope. Hope that as a people, we truly deep down, care for one another. And we want to help one another. And it doesn’t matter what lifestyle, race, age, religion, political party, etc., when it REALLY matters, we are there for each other.
So yes, this Sacred Forging is very much about how we are connected to our ancestors. A feather in an extensive line of feathers, connected to our family bird (instead of tree). Or just maybe it can also be something else as well. I like to refer to this as a ‘yes and’ paradox. YES, it can be one way AND it can also be another at the same time. Think of this like the saying, ‘Birds of a feather flock together’. That we are connected by our humanity. Yes, we are absolutely deeply connected to our ancestors, and we are also profoundly connected to one another.
By using copper, it helps create that energy flow. There is naturally a fantastic healing and comforting feel to it as well. It also has that gentle wisdom about it. This forging will be around the Full Moon, the 18th of October. Just in time for you to receive it for your Samhain celebration.
A substantial portion of the proceeds will go directly to folks on the ground in WNC.
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