Otter Dance

Otter Dance, pencil on paper, 4″ x 9″

Otter Dance was inspired from a shamanic journey I had done, one of the first shamanic journeys I did after learning the technique. I had met up with Otter and we were went to the ocean and the swam/danced together. While it was plenty of fun to be swimming deep and far with him, it was all playful lessons on how to move through this world, when I needed to journey there.

I had a nice weekend, relaxing for the most part and managed to get a lot of house and a little yard work done. This week is going to be a short work week with Friday off for the 4th of July weekend. I’m looking forward to the time so I can finish up the work I’ve been doing to “Utterance” and “Trance Man.” I also want to get some new watercolors going.

“There’s nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance – I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.” ~ Henri Matisse

Energetically this time of year can be intense for myself. The Solstice has so much energy in it and we just had a partial lunar eclipse this weekend and I believe on July 11th there will be a solar eclipse somewhere in the world. The Sun and Mercury have entered Cancer, my ascendant is Cancer and I’m feeling a bit emotionally fried. Processing and clearing a vast amount of emotions. It’s funny what buttons get pushed, well not so funny at the time. Thankfully I’m managing to keep balanced, for the most part.

My friend Benjie posted some Toaist wisdom at her blog CreativeWholeness regarding the Solstice. Please take a moment to check it out.

“When the true light appears,
The entire planet turns to face it.”