4.11.1.6 Harvest Moon (Grey Wolf 80-83)

• Birthdate: October 11 to November 10; Season is Fall
• Thunderbird is Wind Influence; Direction is West; Element is Water
• Coyote as animal totem; Smoky Quartz is mineral totem (aka Black Quartz)
• White Ash is plant totem; Color is purple
• Compatible partners are people of the spring moons, especially Planting Moon
• 4.11.1.6.1 Bright Sunny Days, Cold Weather
  • Coyote attributed to many legends for playfulness
    • Trickster, clown, jester
  • Bright sunny days
    • Looking outside at beautiful days, go out in shirtsleeves
    • Discover cold, go inside for warmer clothing
    • Sun and skies seem to be making effort to trick us
    • Fooled into false sense of pleasure; false expectation

• 4.11.1.6.2 Coyote
  • A trickster
  • Survivor of many, many adverse conditions
  • Person born during this time begins to grow toward wisdom of North
    • A wisdom of how to use both light and darkness
    • How to hide yet obtain necessary light
    • How to live in conditions that seem not to be the coyote's way
  • Coyote found living in city, not in mountains
    • Easiest life is found there
    • Also a tendency of the coyote-person
    • Play, have fun, know how far to go
    • Also look for the easy way
    • Seems a contradiction to harvest, a time of intense labor
    • Time to gather and put away, dig pits to store food
  • Coyote behaves erratically
    • During springtime will sometimes kill more than is needed
    • In fall, he kills and stores his prey
    • Buries it, remembers where buried so can return
    • Knows when food will be scarce

• 4.11.1.6.3 Plant and Mineral
  • White Ash is plant totem
    • Equivalent to English Rowan tree
      • Rowan grows rather small in height, in awkward places
      • High in hills, on edges of moors, in mountains
      • Grows in precarious places
      • Knows how to survive in places though not possible
    • This moon is a very precarious place
      • If you don't gather enough, you won't make it until spring
    • White Ash grows into a very large, straight tree
    • Time of year that white ash is harvested
      • Limbs make best bows and lance shafts
      • Sap has run out of the tree, easy to shape
      • Gives itself willingly for this purpose
      • Ready for working during the winter when need to make tools, mend things
    • Harvest Moon people also capable of giving themselves in service to others
      • provide for needs of others
      • Potential weakneses
        • Being too distant or removed from what is going on
        • Miss opportunities to share knowledge
        • May have tendency toward lack of confidence or self-doubt
    • Best moons to help Harvest Moon people are the spring moons
      • Especially the Planting Moon people
      • Will help to clear the stagnant waters that may be lurking within
      • Give ability to move more rapidly toward enthusiasm and lightness of being
      • Bring light of understanding to what needs to be done
  • Smoky or black quarts is mineral totem
    • Excellent for use during meditations and visions, psychic journeying
    • Will protect from harm
    • Shows how to release blocked or stale energies
    • Helps produce clarity
    • Draws energy toward you if you carry it
    • Some forms have been artifically irradiated to make them dark
      • Natural smoky quartz is recommended instead
  • Color is purple
    • Color worn regularly by royalty
      • Signifies a superior birth
      • Also a spiritual wisdom to guide people in ways of truth, justice, peace
    • People of this moon will benefit from wearing purple
      • Helps them come to terms with deep, profound feelings
      • Helps to become a leader
      • To become a pathfinder, without falling into superiority trap
  Vision: Roy Wilson ~ | ~ Sun Bear ~ | ~ Grey Wolf

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