For more than 30 years I have thought about, read about, taken classes on, and cultivated my intuitive mind. I can trace my interest in intuition back to two dreams I had within a month’s time in the summer of 1980.
In one dream, I heard an authoritative voice (not my own) say “and the moon ascended in her mind”. In the other dream I was in a tent with a Sufi mershid who was instructing me. It was a “breathtaking” experience, for as I dreamed that the silken sidewalls of the tent were flapping in the wind, my whole body was filling with breath and with ecstasy.
It was after these two dreams that I made a costume inspired by them. I cut a quarter moon out of hardboard, pasted glitter on it, and constructed a wire frame to hold it up from my shoulders and around my face. On Halloween night I dressed completely in black, with a tight-fitting black hood over my head and under my chin so that only my face was visible. I painted my face with thick white makeup, put black lipstick on my lips, and pasted rhinestone-studded lashes along my eyelids.
As I walked down the Boulder mall near my house, with the dark sky for a background and the street lights shining on my glittering quarter moon, I heard comments about my costume. People were wowed by it, for I was being seen as “the woman in the moon”.