Rhythm of Truth Cycles, Moon Cycles, Our Cycles: A Mandala for Being

10" x 10" mandala made with found objects: sheet music, Scrabble tiles, money plant seed pods, chocolate kisses, rice crackers. copyright 2016 Lisa Kay

Rhythm of Truth
Lisa Kay
August 2016

Ring around the mandala,
Layers, expand/contract.
Receive the spark!
Open space for sweet, abundant, creation.
Nourish the spirit.
Transmute the heavy into light.
Balance energy in/out/ left to right, up/down,
Around.

Self Reflection: What is my own individual Rhythm and Cycle? How do I allow it to honor and support me?

June Moon Mandalas:Truth Words

Word Play Mandala #1. Lisa Kay, 4 " x 4",  pencil/pen, paper 

Word Play Mandala #2, Lisa Kay, 4 " x 4",  pencil/pen, paper  

Think, listen, hear word(s):
Speak - seek love, laughter, (k)now faith
Courage becomes truth.

Self Reflection: My courage to think, listen and hear my words has brought me courage to Speak Truth.

Defining the Void: May New Moon Cycle Mandala and Haiku

Noir Moon, 9'' x 9" Lisa Kay, 5/6/16

beads, leather, tealights on oak

Noir moon - dark, deep, still;

Concentric space defined in... 

Anticipation.

Self Reflection:  I listen with anticipation!

Honoring the Presence: April Moon Cycle Mandala

New Moon, 10" x 10" Lisa Kay, 4/2016*

She sits on the drawing board, empty and open, 
defining her boundaries.
Waiting, unattached and uncommitted, with prayer flags: white, red, green and yellow. 
She remains ready, anticipating - 
expecting something to happen.

Full Pink Moon, 10' x 10 " Lisa Kay, 4/2016

 The pink moon arrives - 
 delicately presenting her love and grace.

Full Pink Moon, 10' x 10 " Lisa Kay, 4/2016 copyright

 She watches and weeps, as she recedes, 
 scattered, leaving traces of her magnificent presence. 


*Mixed media mandala: watercolor pencils, paper, prayer flags, pewter picture frames, pink weeping cherry petals, rose quartz,  matte board,

Lisa Sharing on Her Mandala and Wisdom for March's Moon

Spiraling in, expanding out,

ordering thoughts.

Digging, burying,

un/covering earthy understandings.

Overlapping intentions:

Accepting the truth.

 March Full Moon Mandala 

detail, March Full Moon Mandala

copyright, 2016 Lisa Kay

8 " x 9 " Mixed media (pastels, paint) and found objects 

( beads, buttons, charms, Grandma Annie's bracelet, wisteria seed pods) on matt board.

 

March New Moon Mandala: Moving toward the Light

March New Moon

 Moving toward the Light

copyright 2016 Lisa Kay(4" x 8" Mono-print on matt board with pastels)

Carolyn Shares: As I spent time with Lisa's March New Moon Mandala 'Moving toward the Light', I picked up my journal and read a quote from a few months back about being called by Source into deeper intimacy:
"You are being called into deeper and closer intimacy, beyond anything you could achieve with your most sincere attempts, closer than you could even dream.  But, you must learn to proceed without any guarantees from your feelings or your intellect. That is the only way to grow in faith and Divine Love."  Richard Rohr 10/20/2014

Lisa's mandala and this quote, move through me touching a part of me still shrouded in shadow. I sense I am the darker circle of her image. Already I am interspersed with this Light that I am moving toward.  I feel myself being 're-patterned and reformed' as I am being drawn to this Light, this sense of Divine.  This is a journey of be-coming. Every Cycle of Moon and Truth is movement toward this becoming.  It is a long journey, ultimately the transformation of a whole life!  In the context of the poem and the mandala, I feel my willingness to let the journey draw me forth.  Reflecting on the story of Blue Goose and Running Water, I remember the journey happens in relationship and in community.  I am not alone, I can trust the journey.

Self Reflection:  What does Lisa's New Moon Mandala speak to me? about me? for Me? 

Lisa Shares Her Full Moon Mandala (and wisdom)

February Full Moon Mandala

                                               copyright Lisa Kay 2016

(8.5" x 8.5", pastels on recycled cardboard with mixed collage media - 

shells, abalone beads, straw, snow flake crystals, magazine image, tissue paper)

She is/I am
gathering, nesting, holding, hording?

She is/I am 
off center, circling, spiraling ~ in and out.

She is/I am
sparkling, sticking, stacking, weaving~ over and under.

She is/I am Dragonfly,
shifting, breaking illusions, bringing  winds of change.

She is/I am honoring, trusting.

She is/I am resolute.


Self Reflection: What is it I honor in myself as I sit in resonance with Lisa's mandala for the Full Moon?