Sep 28, 2015 Ramblings and Musings
Blood-Dark and Bright Night — The Night of the Supermoon Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
©September 28th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
W (my husband), S (our daughter), Holly (our dog) and I were together in the hour when the moon went from half-lit to completely blood-dark — and the dog went slightly nuts.
It was a beautiful eclipse. Alas, we didn’t see the first forty-two minutes of it, but were there for the beautiful glowing white-giving-way-to-blood-red period.
We were at the Sheepfold a couple of miles from our house. It was dark, surrounded by woods, and we thought there would be no one else there, but there was a silent couple who suddenly loomed into our vision. Later, our dog went a little grrr-crazy, when some lights came swinging in through the darkness, and a man (dressed in kilts, I think), and a woman dressed equally colorfully, and rather “pagan”istically came through with flashlights, and smoke issued from a swinging censer — as they left with cheerful greetings, we smelled sage in the air around us. It was rather nice. Some ritual, I imagine.
It was mysterious and lovely being out there. Our dog was anxious, though, but cheered up when all three of us hugged her, and soothed her. We’ve never done anything like this before with her — all three of us with her out in the darkness in a place she’s visited only during the daytime. Dogs must have a strange understanding of us humans, and our seemingly illogical impulses.
I don’t know whether our dog will remember this night, unless it’s in a lunar dream, where she’s frantically chasing night creatures on a blood-red-mood-dark nightmare in the safety of our bedroom.
But when we are all older, and our daughter looks back on this night, I hope she will remember with a little shiver of pleasure and nostalgia. I know that I will remember, and so will my husband.
For we humans are nothing if not our memories. We are entire edifices built from memory upon memory laid brick by brick by us, for us, on us, about us.
And a family is cemented by such memories.
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Please note: The Blood Moon Supermoon image I used in “Featured Image” is copyright free from photobucket:
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