(Friday, July 5, 2019) waxing crescent moon Leo / tarot Queen of Corals (cups)
I found out about my godmother Marguerite Wolfe’s death on this day in 1965, at the Sheehan ancestral farm near Wabasha, with many of my cousins, aunts and uncles.
Dream: I am at my grandmother’s farm, in her very large kitchen, with several other women coworkers. They are talking and working behind me, near the large chrome and linoleum-patterned dining table. I stand at a countertop that faces a tall window, looking out to the backyard grove, between two old light-green cabinets.
I’m putzing with a couple of hand-sewn stuffed animals. I plop one on top of a child-sized wooden chair. Next to the chair is a small handmade cart that mimics the roaming laptop carts we make at my office. This one is made of glass and hand-welded metal, not machined in plastic and molded aluminum. I roll it to the far side of the window, then turn to address the other women.
“Hey! What if we paint this room?” I start peeling away the depression-era wallpaper. They all seem a little shocked by this idea and simply watch.
“What about PURPLE?” I say. And not just plain purple! I treat the walls like watercolor canvas, swooshing the paint with streams of water and blending in many other pigments. The end result looks like a beautiful, star-filled summer sky. Cosmos.
Day notes:
This dream seems related to my upcoming “Healing the Ancestors” retreat. I just received some images and historical information about the Sheehan clan from my cousin Bernadette, who lives on a farm relatively near the “ancestral lands” in Minneiska. Is this dream message telling me that my design time is nearly complete? Time to focus on my artwork, in spite of it being my elder-time? The leader of the retreat, Jill, has a musician son named Cosmo. I love his music and his videos.
I had to do a lot of propping at the office photo shoot on Tuesday, adding cups and notebooks and plants to images Rick was shooting of our desktop products.
I visited my dad at the Cambridge hospital yesterday and the nurses used our StyleView laptop medical carts.
I finally have the name of my ancestor that grandmother Lenora talked about so many times when I was a child. Her grandmother. Lenora taught me many indigenous signs of upcoming weather, including “count the stars inside the ring around the moon and you will know in how many days rain or snow will arrive.”
https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2902415&id=I574483781