Story behind Drawing Down the Moon

I wanted to write something sexy for people to dance to, with the idea that it might be part of a Moon ritual at a Pagan gathering, or music a coven might use., and play with the idea of each of us a Gods and Goddesses, the lovers as their own suns and moons. Using The Charge of the Goddess as the base for a chant, I wanted to change the focus from the divine outside ourselves, to the wholly connected human on the inside.

Drawing Down the Moon
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Gaia softly turning - Luna never sleeping
Mama Moonlight heavy with a belly of dreams that's almost foaling
Night bloom take me under - Night skin taste of wonder
Night kiss stir the hunger, lapping the dark with tongues of silver

So much time we circle the sky with one wing beating
Looking for a light that's true
All our lives we're chasing the night like it's never ending
You the Sun and I the moon

Raise your chalice higher - Push my blade in deeper
Sweet your tongue on mine like the fruit of a tree that's always blooming
Huntress bring us visions - Cleansing fire within us
Stoke the pounding dark with the fire of stars all cast in shadow

So much time we circle the sky with one wing beating
Looking for a light that's true
All our lives we're chasing the night like it's never ending
You the Sun and I the moon

Once in the month in a place made secret
Better for us all if the moon is full
Naked in the rites to show our freedom
Free is the love that we offer too

Ours is the ecstasy of being
Walking in the beauty of the great green Earth
Ours is the touching of the mystery
Ours the experience of death and birth

Ours is the liberating voice of nature
Knowing that there isn't any more than this
Ours the ritual of love and pleasure
Ours the delivery of the five fold kiss

Drawing down the moon. Drawing down the moon.
Drawing down the moon. Drawing down the moon.

So much time we circle the sky with one wing beating
Looking for a light that's true
All our lives we chase the night like it's never ending
You the Sun and I the Moon

Snohomish, late August 2002

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