![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
When I walked out of my work today I was hit smack-dab in the brain with a rather-dark-but-still-darkening post-sunset sky, perfect quarter-moon hanging above the ridge of the Santa Cruz mountains visible towards the west. I got a very, very powerful sense of the presence of Whoever Sleeps In That Land, and of whatever Power it is that dwells in that deep sapphire moment when the first stars are appearing in the east. I feel a need to know the name of that Power, and to know whether it is goddess or just powerful spirit (I feel it is feminine). The Maiden Crowned with the Moon... the Queen of the Evening Star... but who is she really?'
That time of day has always been a place of solace and resonance for me. It is my favourite sort of sky, and I love the sky in general. That moment with the moon (later in the moon cycle, it's not as powerful since the moon is further away or hasn't risen yet - the moon's presence is part of the equation) and the evening star and the shadows over earth... Not (I don't think) coincidentally, I was born around sunset myself, although the moon was waning at the time and so wasn't visible in the sky.
That time of day has always been a place of solace and resonance for me. It is my favourite sort of sky, and I love the sky in general. That moment with the moon (later in the moon cycle, it's not as powerful since the moon is further away or hasn't risen yet - the moon's presence is part of the equation) and the evening star and the shadows over earth... Not (I don't think) coincidentally, I was born around sunset myself, although the moon was waning at the time and so wasn't visible in the sky.