As a teenager my friends and I would spend nights outside looking at the stars and watching the moon in all it's glory. At the time we were just being clowns and doing silly things like wishing on stars for jandels, counting shooting stars and just bask in the light of the moon. It is one of the mos fondest memories my childhood friends and I remissness about. On time I also remember a time my parents took my sister and our friends to Mahia for a holiday here we experienced one of the most amazing connections with the moon.
We had been hanging at the beach that day and the sun had set, it was a warm evening and we were all at the beach with my brother and a couple of the cousins. It had gone dark and the moon was high in the sky. The water was settled as the tide had slowly made its way out. One of the mates asked one of the cousins if it was ok to swim at night to which he said yes, so that was us! All 8 of jumped in the water. Without a word of a lie the moon was so bright it made the water crystal clear and we glowed. It was one amazing experience to be moon lit once again.
Fast forward to Hawaii 2018 I was in a situation where we were sitting at the beach once again under moon lit night but this time it was cloudy and I was with a group of our Hawaiian cousins. As we consumed our inu a couple of Hawaiian whānau took a dip in the sea and the moon lit so bright while they were swimming. It took me straight back to my first night swim in Mahia, it was an amazing experience to see the similarities with our Hawain cousins.
While over in Hawaiki we went to a Kamehameha Community College, while we were there we were shown some beautiful art pieces which had a Hawaiian version of the Maramataka. I totally connected to that Māramataka that when I received my new classroom when we returned I painted a huge moon and I painted my own Māori Māramataka.
Since that trip I have been exposed to a whole heap of experiences surrounding the moon which included a seminar with Rangi Mataatua. After his seminar I was totally inspired about how our connection with the moon was so strong. Now, intuitively I knew this because our whare is te Whare o Hina and over the years in our experiences we always refer to Hina and all her different phases and work under her guidance and light. Ngā Uri o te Pō e ara e.
Now going back to this book, as I was on my flight I was totally zoned in to the book and it was through reading this it confirmed to me that I need to work more closely with the moon, she has so much to teach me like.
- always take time to look up at the moon
- the moon puts on an elegant show different every time in shape, color and nuance.
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