Mandala of the Lunar Quarter - Full Moon, January 19, 2011
Mother Earth wakes and takes one of those great-feeling, long, stretching yawns after waking, turning its face more towards the Sun with each passing day. Earth and Moon dance together in their eternal spirals. Under Earth's mantle of ice and snow, under a crust of browns and grays and decay, new life is already beginning to stir. There's a quickening in the air. Can you feel it?
As with any mandala, you should feel free to pick up pencil or pen and add to the printed mandala before you begin to color it. Perhaps the "leaf" shapes aren't truly leaves, perhaps they are eyes, or hands, or owls, or some other image that's just popped up in your thoughts. Perhaps the "triple moons" need to be connected, or divided, or further ornamented. What is the center of this mandala saying to you?
Mandalas aren't just about coloring in the shapes that exist within them. You can always save and print out a mandala again and again, and alter it in a myriad of ways. Work in pencil at first, then ink over the lines. Think about putting the date on the front or back of your work. Think about jotting a few notes, as well, relevant to your feelings at the time. Looking back after a year, five years, 10 years ... what will your mandalas tell you?
