- Caroline Naughton
Full Moon Sunsets
With this upcoming Full Moon in Capricorn squaring my natal Libra Moon, and Leo Venus separating from her exact opposition to Aquarius Mars, I am reminiscing on the respective, reciprocal roles of the divine feminine and masculine.
It’s that time of day
When the lover and the Beloved stroll hand in hand.
It’s that time of day
When my heart is reminded
How it can be torn in two...
Two hands holding.
I tried to hold your hand
But while I was watching sunset,
You were already preparing for sunrise.
Always focused on your next resurrection
Perfectly content watching me wane in pain
Watching me drop deeper below the horizon
So you could make your next hot announcement.
You never needed to hold me to know I was there
But I needed to hold you
To know I was ready to disappear
To disappear beneath the ground of my wakeful hours
Into the deep slumber of forgetting
Who I am.
And I needed to hold you
To know when it was time to rise
When it was time to come out of hiding
To muster up the strength
To be seen again.
And that’s why you rise
And I receive
My sunshine.
When you go down
I come up
When you come up
I go down
But only in your will.
Oh, Great Mystery
How you play games with me!
You hide and seek
Yet I am the one that moves you,
Holds you,
Receives you in all your glory!
Twelve long hours I waited for you
For without you I had nothing to hold,
No one to serve!
Without you I had no vision,
No mirror to see into my depths of my own soul.
Without you,
I was nothing!
Scratch that...
I was something
I was delusional.
Imagining that I was empty
Even though I was full of you
Even though I was pregnant with you
Even though I gave birth to you.
I’ve raised you to your highest heights and caught you from your farthest falls
I’ve had enough
I've seen all there is to see.
I release you.
Go, I beg you!
Start a new day
Let me rest now.