Morning Meditation Beads
Jul. 27th, 2008 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI've just completed my first solo bead project: a strand designed to help center me when I do the morning meditation I received the day after my initiation.
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The meditation starts in the underworld (at the pendant) with Ereshkigal and LM, then goes up and into the four elements plus the stars. The transition beads above the pendant strand are transitions in the meditation as well.
Looking at it now, I might have chosen to at least try putting the spirals next to the black stone at the top of the pendant, but it always seemed to want the transition pieces, and the round beads didn't fit well against the shape of the stone.
Ah well. . . my teacher has warned me that pieces like this need to be re-strung periodically, so I can always change it later if I want to. For now, I'm just delighted that it went together as easily as it did!
It was kind of funny: both the Earth and the Star sections were redesigned three times each before I found the combination of colors and shapes that worked for me. It certainly helped to justify the amount of bead-buying I've done in the last few weeks. It meant that when the original design didn't quite work I had lots of options to fall back on.
I was also surprised by how quickly the strand seemed to take on a sense of life as the beads started to go on the tigertail. Once they were strung, and moving together freely, the whole assembly became far more potent. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. . . but I was surprised by how quickly the sense of life/energy began to grow.
(Click the photo to expand, if necessary.)
The meditation starts in the underworld (at the pendant) with Ereshkigal and LM, then goes up and into the four elements plus the stars. The transition beads above the pendant strand are transitions in the meditation as well.
Looking at it now, I might have chosen to at least try putting the spirals next to the black stone at the top of the pendant, but it always seemed to want the transition pieces, and the round beads didn't fit well against the shape of the stone.
Ah well. . . my teacher has warned me that pieces like this need to be re-strung periodically, so I can always change it later if I want to. For now, I'm just delighted that it went together as easily as it did!
It was kind of funny: both the Earth and the Star sections were redesigned three times each before I found the combination of colors and shapes that worked for me. It certainly helped to justify the amount of bead-buying I've done in the last few weeks. It meant that when the original design didn't quite work I had lots of options to fall back on.
I was also surprised by how quickly the strand seemed to take on a sense of life as the beads started to go on the tigertail. Once they were strung, and moving together freely, the whole assembly became far more potent. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. . . but I was surprised by how quickly the sense of life/energy began to grow.
