Mono No Aware - The Beauty In Transience...

Hello Loves!

Today as Luna prepares to make its 1st Quarter (Half Moon) Square to the Sun - from the land of the Virgin Priestess, Virgo; with the Great Attractor in Sagittarius in tight opposition to the Sun and Kali in Pisces across from the Moon, making things Grand in the mutable signs… I am called to weave us through a transmission of impermanence.

Our story will begin with a tree, a beautiful Plum Tree that when I moved into my current home, nearly 20 years ago, held court in our side yard. Every late winter, early spring this being came to life in full magestic bloom, as the spring deepened and the days lengthened the soft and delicate flowers that fed the bees would give way to small plum fruits that were a delicious snack for the birds.. As the plums ripened they would fall to the ground around their mothers trunk, some finding purchase in the soil, taking root beneath a bed of dark purple leaves that as autumn gave way to winter would also fall…

This tree welcomed me home as I walked to my door, bid me adieu when I took my leave, provided shade when I sat on my stoop; its branches, which reached the same heights as the windows of my second floor flat, made a home for many birds creating a source of amusement for the cats Poppy and Petra and for Michael and I too.

A few years ago, I began to notice that our friend did not seem to be feeling so great, the bark on its trunk beginning to crack and strain; shortly thereafter in 2022 a mighty wind storm came through pushing her over the edge. At that time there were, in very San Francisco fashion, many wires running from the power lines on the street to our home and our neighbors. As the tree grew over the years these wires had become entwined through the branches - something we had called the city and other faculties to remedy but to no avail. Now these same wires held our friend aloft, preventing the tree from landing fully on the ground and hurting anyone/ thing as its lights went out. It took a couple days before we were able to get some help, the owners of each of the sets of wires had to be located to ensure none had power running through - I used this time to sit shiva with the Dryad who had made its home in this tree and to aid in its re-lease.

After this clearing ceremony, the Dryad having moved on, the felling was completed, the tree taking all those superfluous wires that had run across our side yard with it. I had a momentary thought to plant some bromeliads within the hollow of the stump left behind, however something staid my hand, which it did not take long to understand… In the space now granted all the babies that had over the years taken root began flourishing and where there had been one tree now many fledglings were finding their rise.

There was grieving for the tree that had stood this corner for decades but also joy for all the babies which now had room to grow..

In Japanese there is a phrase that speaks to this bittersweet melody, it is ‘Mono No Aware’, which translates in English to ‘The Pathos of Things’ or ‘The Sensitivity of Things’ - it is a philosophical approach to transience, and a gentle reminder of the beauty of presence. One symbol of this sentiment is Plum and Cherry Blossom, another the Moon..

The Moon, a reflective and sensitive symbol of impermanence, be it in its waxing or in its wanning.. The cyclical changing of the moon is a reminder that everything is in constant motion; and all things that are born to this world must also die, in order for new life to take root.

Speaking of roots, the word pathos is the root for Empathy, that sensitivity to the emotions and energies of all that surrounds us, a heightening of which is part of the process of enlightenment.

It is this bittersweet symphony that allows us to grieve for that which is passing while celebrating the life that is at its core - the soul and the seed that shall carry on..

The Mutable signs within which today’s 1st Quarter Moon is forming a Grand Cross are also symbolic of the transient nature - Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces each closing a season; inviting us to close a chapter and begin a new.

It was during a time of just such transitoriness that the first aspect of our June Solstice Members Gifting began to form.. As the winter in the Bay Area was inching towards spring, the babies that had grown from the Plum Tree’s hollow started to bloom, it was a wondrous and fragrant experience, which greeted me every day for a couple weeks..

Then on the the 1st day of Spring, these gorgeous blooms shared a message with me.. some of us would like to be plucked, so we can become a frequency spray. So obligingly I gathered some of these precious blooms, placing them in a clear glass vessel and covering them with an organic vodka.

Over the next 3 days this glass vessel was moved from the front window to bask in the rising sun, to the back windows to receive the rays of the setting; it then found its rest in a sill overlooking the side yard to receive the rising sun’s rays until the day of the Taurus New Moon.

On this powerful day of manifestation and renewal, 5 weeks after their immersion, the vodka now fully infused with the spirit of the #Plum Blossoms, was strained and added to a vessel of #Stinson Red Rock Water, that had been collected on the eve of the Virgo Lunar Eclipse - to this melange was added the oils of #Lavender and #Bergamot, a sprinkling of #Moldavite dust and the combined water of the #Glastonbury - Red Spring and the #Glastonbury - White Spring - the mixture was then placed into the center of our #A Little Light Music Crystal Grid - Mars-Pluto and The Taurus New Moon with the Inner Alchemy Card that had come through earlier that day at the head.

The following day I received the call that would carry me to Egypt three days later. Before departing the grid was dismantled but when I tried to bottle the spray, I heard a ‘no, not yet’. So upon the Seed of Life, with the Inner Alchemy Card resting in front, this vessel remained throughout my journey to Egypt and NYC; until nearly a month after its birth on the 24th of May with Saturn preparing to enter Aries, at the exact location the Sun had been when the Plum Blossoms were introduced to the Vodka, to this assemblage was added water collected and from a baptismal location (where we ourselves were immersed) of #The Nile River - with this lifeblood added and swirled around the Frequency Spray was placed back into the center of the Seed, a White Lotus Candle burning at its head, the Inner Alchemy Card resting at its front and a #Labradorite - Purple Flash resting atop - here it remained overnight. The next morning with all the energies attuned it was bottled and is now ready to be shared with all of you!

Taking its name from the Japanese art of honoring the bittersweet transience of life, our Mono No Aware Frequency Spray was born and tuned through shifting currents, and holds a powerful energy, within many planes to aid us in our journey through a Solstice Cycle that promises much transformation and rebirth.

This spray is but a component of the whole, Wednesday I shall return with details of the Oil and the Soak, as well as details about how to request the set for yourself.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, in honor of the 1st Quarter Moon I will also be drawing some cards for us so stay tuned!

With so much and many loves my dears, as always, in the all-ways, from the dimensions of the All and beyond the Beyond,

Hils