& the New Moon
 and the New Moon 
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Grandmother Moon stands as the old waning moon, long past her fullness. During the dark of the moon she is reborn as the waxing crescent moon baby. Perhaps at that darkest moment in time, they stand together as the bright wisdom of the ages is given in love to the new moon child, and made ready once again to grow to a brilliant and powerful fullness. A character from my imagination, she is portrayed as a Chinese elder, garbed in silks with moonflowers in her hair, grey moonstone on her forehead, and pearl and white moonstone silver earrings. Her moon baby bears a silver crescent on her forehead, painted one night while the waxing crescent shone brightly overhead. She stands 16" tall on a silver rotating base, sculpted in Premo polymer clay with a poseable soft body. Her baby measures in at a healthy 7" and is fully sculpted in Pro-Sculpt. In honoring the moon baby as girl child, I stand contrary to a current Chinese development in which parents have destroyed newborn girls in favor of possible borning a boy child. This holds much more status when parents are limited to only one child. Hopefully this is passing and we are entering a time when all can honor the feminine and so too the ancient power of the moon. |
