moon
                      

Silver disk: Let me call you goddess —
You, with your mirrored face.
Tonight, all of nights, your shape is perfect,
Your presence sublime.
You know it too. You appear before the sun has
     even set,
Glorious without your cloak of night,
Gazing down in supreme splendor,
To make this dusty world pastoral.

Tonight is the harvest moon. The queen of night is at her most perfect roundness, closer to us than at any other time of the year. She glows silver in an indigo sky.

People celebrate this night for many reasons. For some, it is the time to enjoy the view of the moon, and they toast it with sweets, wine, and tea. For others, it is a time of relaxation and thanksgiving for the harvest.

The Moon Festival is a woman's festival., their time to worship. The harvest moon symbolizes the ascendance of cool darkness over the bright heat of summer. This reminds us of equality in the cosmos: light and dark, male and female, heat and frost, hard and soft—all these things are part of an overall equilibrium.

If you are a woman, then tonight is your night for worship and celebration. If you are a man, then it is a night to step aside and give your wives, mothers, and sisters their privacy. But for all, we can be thankful for the riches of autumn and begin our preparations for the coming frost.

 moon
   
365 Tao
daily meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)
ISBN 0-06-250223-9

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  in the fields
 
this artist seldom gives titles for their work
and I miss working on my calligraphy,
so I  am creating titles to suit the day
this is "in the fields"
(with apologies to Li Rong Zhou!)

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