08-20-2005, 12:00 AM
My wife and I went to a Full Moon Drum Circle last night. It was held out in the valley at a friends farm. We almost didn't go because the weather looked very threatening and the drumming is outdoors....but it was the Full Moon of August, the Sirius Full Moon, so we went.
We sat up our circle in an open field and began drumming as the Moon rose up over the horizon. About an hour into our drumming, maybe 9:00 pm, we looked and saw a big storm approaching from the opposite direction of the Full Moon.
All of a sudden, one of the women drummers in our group yelled for us to look in the sky. There in the sky, was what can only be described as a Moonbow. Yes! A Moonbow, a huge arch of light stretching from horizon to horizon. Instead of colors, the Moonbow was differing shades of light, ranging
from the brightest light on the outer edge to a dimmer light on the inner edge. It was huge! It hung there in the sky for at least 30 minutes. None of us had even heard of a Moonbow before, let alone seen one.
There was a huge range of reactions from the 13 of us gathered there. Some were speechless, some laughed, other wowed! I can't describe how unusual this felt. It was like being in a waking dream.
After I regained the ability to talk, I walked over to Art Geron, who is the great-great grandson of the Apache chief Geronimo. I asked Art what the Moonbow meant. He said It means that "the change has begun".
We sat up our circle in an open field and began drumming as the Moon rose up over the horizon. About an hour into our drumming, maybe 9:00 pm, we looked and saw a big storm approaching from the opposite direction of the Full Moon.
All of a sudden, one of the women drummers in our group yelled for us to look in the sky. There in the sky, was what can only be described as a Moonbow. Yes! A Moonbow, a huge arch of light stretching from horizon to horizon. Instead of colors, the Moonbow was differing shades of light, ranging
from the brightest light on the outer edge to a dimmer light on the inner edge. It was huge! It hung there in the sky for at least 30 minutes. None of us had even heard of a Moonbow before, let alone seen one.
There was a huge range of reactions from the 13 of us gathered there. Some were speechless, some laughed, other wowed! I can't describe how unusual this felt. It was like being in a waking dream.
After I regained the ability to talk, I walked over to Art Geron, who is the great-great grandson of the Apache chief Geronimo. I asked Art what the Moonbow meant. He said It means that "the change has begun".