Thank you everyone for your support as we transition to a new phase of Luna Arcana under the auspices of this Scorpio new moon! Issue 4 will now be retailing at $4 – all pre-orders will be mailed out today đđœđ€đ Not local to the Joshua Tree area? Order a copy inline: Click here…
by Rohini Walker Click here for an audio version of this installment of Letters from Luna. Times of momentous uprising and archetypal shifts in the fabric of reality, as the year 2020 is turning out to be, necessitate looking to the wisdom of certain minds; ones who bring the lightning bolt of timeless, illuminating insight to the unseen nuances of the zeitgeist. For me, Toni Morrison is one of those â especially and fundamentally now. The essay-transcript of her speech,…
by Rohini Walker/ Photo ‘Ripple/Emergence’ by Angela de la Agua âOur histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories.â Angela Davis ‘Freedom is a Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement’ Just over a month ago, the Pain returned. I could feel its clarion calls in my body, announcing its arrival…
by Rohini Walker / Illustration by MartĂn Mancha Iâve been playing a game with myself for the last couple of months. It revealed itself to me seemingly spontaneously, while out on a hike in the desert one morning with my beloved familiar, the black pitbull, Bodhi. A voice, the one I have come to call Lila, murmured: âI wonder what it would be like to imagine if I was awake in this strange dream of life?â And with that, my curiosity was…
Art by Bon Bizkerre – (click here to see more) In these wildly weird and reflective pandemic times of “social-distancing” and being in quarantine, we’re making the most recent Issue 4 available for digital download. So if you haven’t got a copy of the print version, and you’d like to check out this issue while you’re battening down the hatches at home, look no further. A donation of your choice in exchange will be a radical act of support for…
âIf you speak on the mythological level, you may speak of what the Divine is like because myth is not a falsehood as one uses the word in a sophisticated way. A myth is an image, a concrete image in terms of which man makes sense of the world.â– Alan Watts Click here for an audio version of this installment of Letters from Luna. Doc and I have been living in the southern Californian region of the Mojave Desert for almost…
by Rohini Walker âI write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man. So only an oblique consideration will be found here of man; itâs upto him to say where his masculinity and femininity are at: this will concern us once men have opened their eyes and seen themselves clearly.â So wrote the Algerian-born French feminist writer, poet and luminary, HĂ©lĂšne Cixous in her provocatively subversive essay, The Laugh of the Medusa â a work so rich and layered and…
by Rohini Walker Perhaps it is because itâs winter, and I, having recently returned home to the Mojave Desert from a deep-snow covered northern New Mexico, am inclined to meditate longer than usual on the subject of decay and dying. Perhaps itâs because I have chosen to live in a desert that I am one of those in whom a certain fascinated terror into this inevitability of life is particularly present. Â Or perhaps that, born as I was on…
by Rohini Walker In Of Power and Time, the first essay in the incandescent anthology Blue Pastures, Mary Oliver describes herself as a vessel of, at a minimum, three selves: âI am, myself, three selves at least. To begin with, there is the child I was. Certainly I am not that child anymore! Yet, distantly, or sometimes not so distantly, I can hear that childâs voice – I can feel its hope, or its distress. It has not vanished. Powerful,…
Photo: Members of Syuxtun Collective inspecting plants at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden. | Still from Tending Nature by Rohini Walker What does it mean to participate? In Robin Wall Kimmererâs Braiding Sweetgrass, a beautiful, indispensable meditation on the gifts of reciprocity and participation with nature, she writes: S2 E2: Holistic Healing with the Syuxtun Collective âIn the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top – the pinnacle of evolution,…
