I started to write this piece in a 2 minute writing process during yesterday morning’s meditation. —. It drifted in and out of my day, through a lunch with three friends of my sister Jackie. She used to have a semi-annual lunch with them before the fall that lead to her death last November. It was a beautiful time together that felt even more potent with the pending eclipse almost upon us. And then, during lunch, the moon passed in front of the moon but from where we sat, its happening was barely physically noticeable despite its energetic force. And still, it’s power lingered in tendrils of thoughts of the energy of the eclipse that kept slipping in and out of my mind’s eye. A late afternoon zoom interview with a woman for my upcoming 6 month course, ReEnvision Your Journey, that lead into an evening sharing dinner with my beloved, sitting back at my desk overlooking the river flowing with energy towards a distant sea. Effortlessly I slipped back into the quiet and the words spilled out.

And then, after penning it and searching for a photo on Unsplash, a photo appeared on the wonderful Bandiphotography.com ‘s FB page and I sent the poem to him to ask if he would be willing to collaborate.

I am grateful he said yes. Thank you Bandi for being such a beautiful creative soul and friend.

An Ode to the Eclipse 
by Louise Gallagher

Tapping in
to align
energy flowing
pregnant
with potent wholeness
calling
    Let go
    Welcome in
darkness
light
    Don’t be afraid
    Open up
    Become
shadow turning dark to light
    Become
the all you’ve dreamt into being
possible
    The all that has been holding
space
for you
to awaken
to your own potency
giving birth
to your dreams.