My Personal Wheel of the Year: Part Three:
🌱🌸Birth🌸🌱, the third month, which takes place during the 20th of March all the way to the 20th of June.
These months focus on the birthing of spring as it finally arrives. It is the growth of nature. Of life. Of vibrancy. Of fertility.
Everything is coming back from the dead, or being born for the first time ever. Babies are here, animals running rampant and experiencing all of the wonderful things in the world, plants are flourishing with the warmth of the sunlight, and the refreshing taste of water to help them grow to their full potential, and life is fresh and springing with absolute joy.
This is a very special time for me, as I am always connected to nature, and always have been since I was a very small child. I always loved wandering around and observing all of the greenery around me, as well as the blue sky above, and the thick, white clouds, and most of all the beautiful, warm sun. I also had, and still have, a very imaginative mind and fantasized about the different worlds beyond this one, and had a very spiritual connection to this earth, and everything else beyond it.
It is a special time to learn more about nature and what it has to offer, and to take care of it as well as one can. And to remind ourselves that we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the earth. For the earth births us and provides for us. Always.
• The beautiful Colors that I associate with Birth are: Greens, yellows, rainbow, bright colors, and glitter. Green for the beautiful flourishing nature, yellow for the bright sun which warms the earth and provides healing, rainbow for the rainbows of nature, and the happiness and hope that comes along with them, bright colors for the vibrancy, and glitter to represent happiness, as well as the sun rays which dance upon the clear waters of lakes, rivers, oceans, and anywhere else that has water.
• The Deities I associate with Birth are: Gaia, Flora, and Pan!!!
• The lovely Foods I associate with Birth are: Apples, pears, plums, prunes, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, bananas, mandarines and other oranges, cherries, grapes, raisins, onions, peas, tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms, lettuce, eggs, milk, butter, etc, and drinks symbolizing blood, aka life.
Other foods are baked goods, sweets, dairy foods and desserts, etc. Especially macaroni and cheese.
Eggs and milk are especially important, as they both represent fertility.
• Some lovely Plants I associate with Birth are colorful flowers of all kinds as well as leaves, and other items from nature are twigs, rocks, branches, seashells, pebbles, sand, dirt, soil, etc.
• Things to do for Birth include:
Appreciate nature and all that it’s done for you.
Be thankful for life. Write about how thankful you are for the growth of nature, the flourishing of all life, and the air that you breathe.
Write about your most favorite animals and favorite part of nature.
Look up different animals and plants and learn about how they work, live and function.
Listen to music about nature and growth in all forms (besides nature, growth is also who you are, how far you’ve come, and what you’ll do next).
Go for walks where there is nature. (Which is everywhere!!! 🌸💫💕)
Go outside and observe nature. Watch as everything moves as intended, smell the freshness of it all, listen to the sounds, feel the warmth, the fresh air, the soft wind, and the firm ground beneath you, and the soft grass. (This is also a form of meditation and grounding for me)
Open a window to let in fresh air, and observe nature from there.
Do some cleaning and rearranging. Add something new to your home.
Meditate (However you wish. There is no one way to meditate.)
Look up nature aesthetics.
Listen to soothing nature sounds for meditation.
Look up videos of nature and animals. I personally love watching cute animal videos, especially of silly cats, ferrets and dogs!! I also love how adorable cows, donkeys and foxes are.
Dress in the colors of Birth, decorate yourself in flowers and other plants, little animal dolls and nature toys/dolls.
Draw artwork of nature (plants, animals, water, landscapes, etc)
Decorate anything with eggs, flowers, twigs, branches, animal dolls, stuffed animals, baby animals, artwork such as sewing work, knitted/crochet work, painted work, drawings, etc, fill a cup of dyed water for blood, which symbolizes life.
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You ever get the feeling that sometimes the universe thinks the time is right for a specific project?
Earlier this week, heavily inspired both by @rattusrattus3 and their collage box youtube tutorial, and the gorgeous corvid boxes posted by @korva-the-raven, I decided to make something similar myself. THE DAY AFTER that decision was made I found this wooden chocolate box in a charity shop for £1.99. It could not be more perfect for purpose.
I had been thinking the collage part would be difficult as I "don't really keep interesting bits of paper." As it turns out, the hell I don't.
That same evening I found this stash in my old art folder. I thought all I had in there were a couple of greetings cards.
Of particular use were the William Blake and Exploring the Gothic art exhibition guides. These are both really high quality prints and contain some gorgeous artwork. Thankfully I have a paper guillotine so I could cut out the pictures really neatly.
This is what I ended up with. I could make several boxes just from these!
Korva's boxes have individual compartments made out of matchboxes which are also decorated. I don't have any matchboxes, but then I recalled that I know how to make an origami box - I had a friend in school who was Japanese and her mother taught me. So, what if I was able to find some nice paper and make small boxes to go inside? Again, the universe provided...
These are from a pad of scrapbooking paper, 24 double sided sheets, 30x30cm (12x12 inches) for £4. Very thick and high quality and excellent for making sturdy boxes that are fit for this purpose. I didn't love all of it but these designs are beautiful, and I will have more than enough for this project and tons left for the future 😁
I thought to save it looking too "busy" I would just use one plain colour and one floral. Since the internal boxes need to be quite small I thought a smaller print would work best, and paired that with a plain purple. I used the guillotine again to cut the paper into squares that were the right size (after a trial run with some cartridge paper to make sure they would fit) and...
This box is super easy to do, probably why I still remember how to make it after being taught at the age of 5! Here's a tutorial.
Meanwhile the outer box got a couple of coats of black acrylic paint.
Then it was time to decide how to arrange my collage pieces. I quickly came up with this for the inside (Edgar Allan Poe themed, the large picture is an illustration to "The Raven" which is super appropriate for a corvid box, and the small one in the top right has lines from the poem "Lenore"). I'm still unsure about whether I will also do the base as its going to be covered most of the time anyway. I may just line it with more of the floral paper.
The outside was harder, but I've gone with some anatomical drawings, plus a couple of space-fillers which look pretty.
The edges are a little narrow so I'm not going to collage those for now, but I might see if any of the charms from my shiny things box would look good glued onto the sides instead.
Unfortunately I can't finish it just yet, as the only thing I haven't been able to get is modge podge - every shop I went into said "we used to have that but don't stock it anymore". So I ordered some online and I should have it within a few days.
Then all I'll need to do is decide how I want to fill it, I have lots of items to choose from 😁
Huge thanks to those who inspired this, it has been a project that I've absolutely loved, and I'm going to be on the lookout for more nice boxes so I can make another, I still have plenty of supplies!
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