a mooring plan

1/23/'10
2130 hours Eagle Harbor

All's quiet but for the sound of cars debarking the ferry. An otter splashes around the deck, trying to climb aboard and poop on the houseboat.
I worked on color studies for my painting of Wicca. After laying down a blue/violet ground it's time to consult the color wheel oracle. This magic talisman is a guide through the dizzying maze of color relationships in my attempt to capture Wicca's silhouette against the high drama of a Winter sunset. A perpetual circle dance, color harmony is a dynamic movement around the wheel and back to the opening theme-- the key color. In this case, it is blue/violet (Viadurya blue in Sanskrit) the color of open sky and healing.
It's a circle dance, like Wicca turning with the tides ebb and flow around the still point buried deep in DNR bottom land. It's all a vast mooring plan that extends far beyond the microcosm of the harbor to the infinite reaches of space and back again--back to meetings, networking, this blue canvas and the still point of it all.
Symbols are not invented but grow from the collective consciousness, from lived experience. For mariners, the anchor has long been an image tattooed on the psyche by centuries of storm-tossed sleep and dreams disturbed by the grind of shifting chain in the murky depths. Arms emblazoned with the fouled anchor express something deep in our collective memory and cherished cultural inheritance about the need for solidity in a changing universe. But faith in the almighty or faith in the holding power of a CQR, it all comes down to the same need.
A good model for a mooring plan would be the mandala of the Medicine Buddha. This is grounded in the fundamental principles that honor the interdependance of all beings, tolerance and compassion. He is firmly anchored in this bottom land no one owns yet open to the vast, open Viadurya blue sky.