gateway

I've been asked several times about the name of my art and healing business so decided to create a blog post to explain. 

Wildkat has been a nickname for nearly 2 decades and I had planned to use this for my business name, but it wasn't resonating with the healing part of the business.  It seemed too harsh.  So after some brainstorming with the folks from DAC we came up with Luna.  Luna wasn't sitting right with me. It felt over used.  So I meditated on it.  I kept seeing a figure that looked like the following piece of art I made last year. It represented openness to me and the term gateway arose. 

While I was ruminating on the name I was struggling with the logo…

I have been drawn to the crescent moon as far as I can remember.  I was born on a waning crescent moon.  The only tattoo on my body is a crescent moon.  The moon represents the feminine energy, the darkness, destruction, creation, stillness, intuition, and flow.  The energy of the moon has always had an impact on me.

I can't remember when my obsession with sunflowers began, but my connection to them gets stronger each year.  I buy them, I paint them, I grow them, and they are often in my visions. The sun represents the masculine energy, the light, action, discipline, assertion, and logic.

The star pattern in the middle is from my maternal grandmother's china pattern that I now use daily.  It's gorgeous and I refuse to let it sit in a cabinet.  There is ancestral energy and knowledge in that china.  As I heal, I heal seven generations before me and seven generations after me. 

I wanted all of these elements in my logo as they were important to me.   The initial logo was looking like this with the moon and sunflower side by side representing the balance of masculine and feminine.  I still wasn't settled with it.  I thought it looked more balanced with the moon on the bottom open to the top, but that triggered me.  I had to understand why I was triggered by this. 

I can't quite articulate how this all came to me, but this is what I surmised.  I've been programmed on this Earth to believe that masculine qualities define success leading to the suppression of my feminine energy and qualities.  Because of this I was unwilling to not let the feminine representation be equal to the sunflower, which was representing the masculine energy.  BUT as I was journeying to the name "gateway" I felt a huge shift.  The Divine Feminine energy is what is going to transform this Earth into a new Earth.  The wounded Masculine has been in control for far too long and the Divine Feminine is rising.  The Divine Feminine will be the gateway to healing this Earth.  The receptivity, the nurturing, the stillness, the intuition, the surrendering will move us forward and with it will bring the rise of the Divine Masculine to a perfect balance.  And with that moment it became clear to me the moon is the receptacle for healing.   She is the gateway for change.  And so was birthed my logo.

The crescent moon facing up represents the Sacral Chakra or the Maiden archetype.  This clearly was a an archetype I had an unhealthy relationship with my entire life and through my art I have healed and continue to heal her and bring her more into balance.  This took stillness, surrendering, opening, and returning to flow vs. force.