(Saturday, April 11, 2026) third quarter moon Aquarius
I received an email newsletter from Sharon Blackie titled The fairy tale heroine and the Wild Girl archetype. Love it! I have been working on my little faerie tale book every day this week. Her message is about her upcoming book “Ripening.”
(Friday, April 10, 2026) third quarter moon Capricorn
I am past the third draft of my small faerie-tale, “Eadie the Herbalist.” The writing style seems fine for now. Yesterday I reordered Adobe InDesign (I cancelled it last fall) and was able to make a decent 16-page book layout. I found a font I like. I found a page size I like. Now I need to start working on 8 illustrations. I plan to make them out of flattened paper clay, decorating the outer borders with herbs, leaves and flowers (inspired by my green-man sculpture and the Sacred Nature oracle Bonnie sent me). Plus making a small, painted illustration of each character in the center. I haven’t used my colored underglazes in years, so I need to buy some new bottles of clay paint. I already ordered herbs and flowers from Etsy, and they have started to arrive. I received dried yellow gorse blossoms from England. I am waiting for dried heather, chamomile, rosemary and elderberry. Next week I am going to start playing with the illustration process and see how it goes. If worse-comes-to-worse, I can publish the book without illustrations, or ask another artist for help.
I wonder. I respelled Edie (Eadie) and Brigid (Brigit). Should I respell Henry (Henri)? He appears in my 2021 Frenchman dream.
(Easter Monday, April 6, 2026) waning gibbous moon Sagittarius
Today I listened to Katherine Bell’s podcast. Neurologist Ken Paller, a professor at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), presented research on how lucid dreams and deep sleep benefit memory. He will be one of the keynotes at the Ashland IASD. He says “dreaming that you are dreaming” is a lucid dream. Those happen to me very often. Lucid dreams affect the left temporal lobe, specifically gamma-band activity (36Hz). Today my 40Hz sound-and-light gamma device arrives (recommended by a neurologist from MIT). At the end of May I will be participating with a Northwestern aphasia dementia study. It all feels like powerful synchronicity today, especially because I will be sharing three “mind” dreams tonight with The Dreamsters Union.
