Laws of Illusion

Sunday, July 18, 2010

One of the things that I love about the moon, is that it isn't always as it appears. She has many faces and shows only part of herself at any given time. While her phases are predictable, she is able to hold onto some spontaneity by appearing at any time of the day or night, or not at all. She can come and go as she pleases, depending on the weather or her mood if you will. She can eclipse the sun and she sparks the creativity of hundreds of songwriters, artists and writers.

Sometimes I feel like the moon controls my moods along with the ocean tides. I can be happy and high one week, confident and mouthy the next. The third week is my most trying, as I warn everyone ahead of time that I am emotional, irrational and at my lowest. Its effects are so lasting that I don't even have words to describe the fourth week other than recovery from the third.

As a woman I can relate to the moon and the fact that the only thing that stays the same about her is change. I have been listening to Sarah McLachlan's new CD this past month, Laws of Illusion, her first since 2003. For Sarah herself, this period was a time of profound change and renewed discovery. “I think when you go into a dark place for a while and you come out of it, the lightness you feel is…euphoric.”

This reminds me that nothing in life is as it appears. We may think that we have things all figured out only to learn that we were wrong. Life is ever changing and always gets the last laugh. The laws of illusion are actually there to guide us if we are open to change and trusting in a world beyond the one we know. For it is that world after all, that guides the universe and the souls who call it home. One illusion after another, day after day, page after page.