tapping into the well of unconsciousness

I have rehearsals with our band today. We practice together quite a lot, almost once a week. For every rehearsals, I will make some preliminary preparation; practice new songs at home, make some guitar exercices or adjust my equipment, guitar, synth tracks or effects. At rehearsals we usually go through a lot of songs, especially newer ones that may need more practice. This all is driven by artistic desire to create something new.

A lot of people know that artistic activity and creativity coincides with moon phase. I've felt this during whole of my life. I thought this thing again yesterday when moon was almost full and it was shining silvery through gloomy blanket of clouds. I was preparing my guitar effects for the rehearsals and it was almost too easy to slip in to creating in to new music in the dim lights of studio watching moon.

As moon grows bigger, the gates to unconsciousness, to the immortal source of myths and dreams open more and more and we feel togetherness with it and our immortality.

yule yule

Diminishing light makes thoughts concentrating on the nearing moment when light finally wins the dark. There are number of old traditions beneath current Christmas, most of them forgotten centuries ago, some of them, such as bringing in a green tree and celebrating around it in our living rooms, which still live as fragments attached in to our modern customs.

Yule is an old name for an ancient winter fest of germanian people. The name is clearly and older forefather of Finnish 'Joulu' (=Christmas). Yule reminds me of yule log. In old days, yule log was the largest log that was burnt in an open hearth as a last one during Yule evening and night. I guess yule log is unfamiliar to most of us. Keeping the plant of the druids, mistletoe hanging over the door, however, is one old still living tradition in some places.

We should keep the old ways alive like the generations before us have done.