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Saw something as I was fading away to sleep this morning. I was sitting there, looking at my drums as they are spread all over my room. Fretting about that class. I've been reading the textbook for it - it's just a spiral bound Word doc, really, but oh well. It's very dreamy & contemplative & seems like it should have been written by a middle-aged woman wearing a purple mumuu (I have no clue how to spell mumuu... mumu? mummu?) but the instructor is a middle-aged man (Joshua Levin). Anyway, I have been in the habit of drawing a card from the Goddess Oracle deck periodically & of course, the same ones pop up, over & over again. Last night it was Kali, & in the lexicon of the Goddess deck, her theme is "Letting go of the old so the new can enter". I asked Kali what exactly am I supposed to let go of, what lesson am I supposed to be learning, & saw instead, one of the drum heads with a red stylized snake spiralling around it. I realized when I woke up, since the snake had a definite triangular head, that it was a rattlesnake & the tail kind of popped into my brain, & when I went to the website where I got my drums (very cool website, btw) that it's a rattlesnake so it wants to be on one of the rain drums.
Funny, it's supposed to rain tonight. It rained the other day.
But now, I've got conflicts - I want to put a sunflower in the center. And a snail. I think the sunflower & snail are going to have to go on a different drum, though. I sketched the basic idea out in my little notebook, so I can remember. The snake had a yellow bar on the back of its head, & its rattles were yellow. It spiralled out from the center of the drum, clockwise. I think it had a solid black line down its spine. Very bold primary colors that stood out nicely against the creamy white of the drumhead.
Anyway, now I have to find out what kind of paint or dye I can use on goatskin drums and actually paint it. I am not artfully endowed, but Saturn is going into retrograde this month, so maybe I can take advantage of the lack of restrictions in my life.
Sometimes, it's good to know that people are still out there on the other end of teh internets.
Funny, it's supposed to rain tonight. It rained the other day.
But now, I've got conflicts - I want to put a sunflower in the center. And a snail. I think the sunflower & snail are going to have to go on a different drum, though. I sketched the basic idea out in my little notebook, so I can remember. The snake had a yellow bar on the back of its head, & its rattles were yellow. It spiralled out from the center of the drum, clockwise. I think it had a solid black line down its spine. Very bold primary colors that stood out nicely against the creamy white of the drumhead.
Anyway, now I have to find out what kind of paint or dye I can use on goatskin drums and actually paint it. I am not artfully endowed, but Saturn is going into retrograde this month, so maybe I can take advantage of the lack of restrictions in my life.
Sometimes, it's good to know that people are still out there on the other end of teh internets.
