Musical Accompaniment: The Moon is Shining on Our Love by Leonard Foster

 

I was walking home one night a couple of weeks ago, and the moon was a brilliant sight in the sky.  It looked so mystic and beautiful that  I took a picture before I went inside.

For the past two months, I’ve been giving away as many of my things as I can and organizing what I keep. It’s been a long project but so liberating. When I do finish  getting rid of my physical belongings, I need to do the same with my electronic files.

I was looking at them the other day and wouldn’t you know it? One of the very first things I saw was Carl Jung’s artwork—I posted about his Red Book not long ago.

I try not to jam too much into one post so I kept back at least half of the pictures Jung made to put in a later post.  And one of them leapt right off the screen at me.

It reminded me of the idea that history doesn’t repeat itself but it has a rhythm.

A little point of interest. The sky around the moon has a peculiar iridescent quality to it in the first picture that is visible only when only on clear nights when it’s very bright.

The color play reminds me of the unusual shimmering effect you see in labradorite gemstones (so named because it was first discovered in the Labrador Islands). Labradorite stones are dark green and you wouldn’t notice anything special about them unless the light enters the stone just so. When it does there’s a brilliant flash of color so striking the natives believed the effect was caused by the stones having absorbed the Northern Lights. This unique visual effect has its own name: labradorescence.

Usually labradorescence colors are green, blue, copper, or violet. But there is a less common white variety of labradorite—you see what I mean about the color?

It’s a rhythm in nature.