Lahana Quotes

“Body of Earth, body of woman
call unto the stars
Carry –
as the river which carries the touch of the forest
– carry Earth unto sky
Enliven within my body of woman
union with Earth, union with sky
I am daughter of stars
a clear river of light
My soul, it is flowing
unto body of woman,
body of Earth woven with light”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon. She listened to the crashing distance in the waves: formless and curving into the Earth, reaching for the wide basin of the sky. The ocean’s longing to embrace – not understanding stillness or the way others might be tied to the ground.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“feeling all the moods of the ocean. Crystalline in a still morning, beckoning under the midday Sun, a mysterious and ancient divinity at dusk, wild and unconquerable in storms. Always a new tide coming in, and an old tide leaving on a new journey. I feel like the ocean remembers the touch of every place it has been to and washes our skin with it, takes part of us with it when it goes.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“Tears fall like liquid leaves
into the streams and full,
autumn-coloured rivers of our blood
And liquid leaves become crystal
in our winter fortress
before they flow
shifting, changing
rich red by grace of autumn
and fertile in the spring”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“She closed her eyes and could feel the Earth talking, could hear it talking itself into being. The generosity of this energy – pure in the darkness, pure in the cold air and in the hot smell – it flowed into the glyphs as it flowed so generously into all of life. It filled the polluted incantations here as the pure river continues to flow unguarded into the polluted bay.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“Past the azure mist, out into the deep sky pierced with stars. They who watch our path as surely as they did our ancestors, as surely as they shall our descendants: watching all the small stories weaving across the vast journey of time.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“They each beheld the changes to their lover’s face. The places – at the corners of the eyes and lips, across the pensive brows – where Time had left its tracks like a traveller across the snow. The markings of a life together and all the experiences that shaped them. They knew the laughter and the tears that had all made those lines – could read them like maps of the lives they cherished and thanked the Ancient Ones for granting them.

Their fingers reached out and entwined into the silk of hair so beloved by Time that it had begun to seek the colours for its own garment, leaving as payment threads of silver, bright and shining.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana

“Honouring the eternal Sky, which holds the life-awakening Sun and the psychic-awakening Moon. Honouring the Earth – Mother of our flesh – and our sacred role as keeper and carer of such complex fabric of life.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“the great ones are everywhere. The Sky, the Earth, the Sun and Moon – we shall never be beyond their sight. The rivers shall always be the tributaries of the one river, Aysana the Great Mother.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“A deep pool seemed to exist in the space between them, fed by a wellspring ancient and eternal. Lahana felt a part of herself setting off, like a raft from the shore, and float peacefully out into the waters, drifting back to a long-forgotten beginning.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“We see the world in our current perception. Our understanding will ever expand – or constrict – and change. We do not actually convince others of our argument; we can only speak and express the truth of our understanding. If another listens, then they will take it in, analyse it and – if they choose to – incorporate it into their own understanding. Anything more overwhelming than that, anything tyrannical, will only be an overlay – a shroud that will eventually be thrown off.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“I called in yearning for illumination. The vein of yearning which always flows – sometimes hidden, sometimes veiled and buried – within our evolution alongside the Earth.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“as though to reach past the azure mist, out into the deep sky pierced with stars. They who watch our path as surely as they did our ancestors, as surely as they shall our descendants: watching all the small stories weaving across the vast journey of time.
What can the Sun and the Moon and the stars tell us that they did not yet know to tell our ancestors? What do the great souls of the mountains learn as their bodies change, as they meet with the rivers and the sands of the ocean? And what of the knowings of the Earth – the cloth of Lahana’s own body – the layers of time within the flesh, reclaiming body and form after body and form. The Earth changing with each life lived out within her.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“I feel as though the ocean longs to hold me.” She looked up at Keelan, trying to read his attitude. “I long to touch the ocean. I look at the sky and yearn to be within the vapours and colours that it exists within, and I feel that it calls for me also. I push my hands into the soil, and I feel that the Earth wants to take me in – like a seed or a cutting from a tree – and grow me.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“It is of no matter to the Oneness that a tree and a glimmer of the Sun may only exist for a brief moment. The matter of value is the feeling they have for the life within themselves and within each other, that they honour and love the manifestation of Light into matter. With whatever awareness their soul has access to.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“The Goddess of the Earth. The one who embraces the light of the Sun and the stars: entwining destiny with the patterns of nature. The one who is our body of flesh – and yearning to hold the light of our souls.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“out on the boats at night, with the stars all clear, I feel as though I’m caught between two hands of infinity. And they’re holding me still but pulling me into them all at the same time. And when everyone is quiet, just waiting, I feel like the sea has its own voice. Not the one everyone talks about – the voices of the dead or the sirens or the monsters – but its own. And it could tell you the answer to everything if you only knew how to ask it.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“Let always flow into you, your memory of where you are from. Feel the awesome power that called you into being when your soul first awoke and cried out your true and only name. All other names are garments. All other lives are garments. We put them on, and sometimes they bind with stays and ties of hard cord. And other times they flow like silk around us, and we dance freely moving our souls in beautiful harmony with the flesh.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“She felt her body disperse, her structure release into elemental and shifting from fire to air, to water to earth. And then there was no Earth, and it was far beyond the Sun’s keeping of years. And all was a matrix of sound.
Lahana lost hold of time and became as a song lilting upon breath. Then a great longing, a longing to transfigure. The song became a dance, and touch was like a celebration of life. And life opened to a richer song. A longing for the intensification of elemental division. For the beauty of division in symphonic harmony.
Lahana felt pulled with the others in her dance, gathering matter and weight and solidity. She felt time catch hold of her and an emergent cosmos. Time awakening her as she submerged into the fabric of this still young cosmos. Becoming fire shifting to air, to water to earth. Her spirit dancing with the Earthlight that began to reach through the tumult of the elements. Earthlight pouring into the spinning particles of matter and seeking harmony of flesh with spirit – with as much longing as Lahana felt.
Lahana saw time awaken the evolving awareness of the Earth Spirit – embraced within the evolving awareness of the Universe. And both these, Earth and Cosmos, embracing Lahana’s own journey, offering her the garments of their flesh, offering her the sustenance of their bodies.
Then a deep breath ran through her, slow and complete. And she woke . . .”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“Watching all the small stories weaving across the vast journey of time. What can the Sun and the Moon and the stars tell us that they did not yet know to tell our ancestors? What do the great souls of the mountains learn as their bodies change, as they meet with the rivers and the sands of the ocean? And what of the knowings of the Earth – the cloth of Lahana’s own body – the layers of time within the flesh, reclaiming body and form after body and form. The Earth changing with each life lived out within her.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire

“May we be new and always new upon the Earth – allowing the autumn’s spent leaves to fall away, reaching bare branches to the Sun without ache or regret.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lunar Fire