selene

“It’s constantly there, but it’s archaic, turbulent, whimsical, vast, and everchanging, differentiating the days even if I’m looking out of the same window. The moon is my favorite companion.”

The Ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda goes into great detail concerning Soma and states that Soma stands above the gods. Soma is the supreme entity. Soma is the moon; Soma is masculine. Here we have a rare phenomenon: a male lunar deity. It is limited to certain North American Indian peoples and to the Indo-Europeans (the German folk conception of the

O Goddess of the Moon, Goddess of the night sky, of brilliance and of darkness, please bless this seeker of the ways!

La lune montait de l’est chaque soir, se juchait sur les houppiers et rôdait lentement dans la nuit. Elle ouvrait sur la mer une balafre d’argent.

I make a path for the moonlight

When I look deeply at the moon, I breathe in and out deeply and say, “Full moon, I know you are there, and I am very happy.”

the moon fell out of its pocket of clouds from time to time.

Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the moon and its unconditional compassion. It was imprinted upon human genes like a warm collective memory.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine.