Blue Moon Rising

One of my most favorite things in life is a full moon, on a clear cold snow filled landscape.  When you can see the outline to every branch and twig reflected on the snow below.  It's as if there was even more clarity in this moon lit night, than when the sun is shinning at mid-day.  On this starless night, the moon is bright, bright on a velvet black background.  The bright clear contrast of my own shadow as my companion, with the stillness of night.  I can hear............

A blue moon is a rare moon.  It's when a full moon happens twice in a one-month cycle.  That's only every 2.75 years. Next one is December 2 and 31 of 2009.  How cool.

There's a chance that the sky will be clear and that there will be snow on the ground, or maybe not.  After December of 09 the next blue moons will be in August of 2012, and July of 2015!  Catching a blue moon in winter is truly a rare occurance.

Although out of sync, there is a blue moon rising right now.  Upon a very black background of life, there's a very white bright light reflecting down upon us, so that we might have clarity, and see the elongated outline of our lives up against the stark cold snow.  May the light be here long enough to hear our hearts, without ego and have a knowing of what is our correct path.  While the light of the blue moon only lasts a short period of time, we can easily see the contrast with clarity of our reality.  A wonderful clarity, that only happens in the stillness of our own night and reflection of a light greater than our own.  A night that brings, gratefulness, humility and a new engagement to the beautiful simplicities in our lives during our own blue moon.