Happy full moon!

This image celebrates this full moon in libra, on the birthday of Lord Hanuman, something I just discovered.  

Yet the work itself arose a from an image of a few nights ago in which I dreampt with an image of an egyptian elongated head... I cannot recall the details of the dream, there seems to have been more having to do with flow, fluity.  I think of the ancient sacred flow of the nile yet I know little about this river, symbolically it is so important to who we are, it nourished a whole civilization's development and continues to echo in our genome with the most interesting hamonic music and knowledge beyond what we can fathom but that points to dimensions of who we are ancestrally in a cosmic sense.  

Exploring some of the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of Body-Mind Centering, I have been doing some somatic sensing into the birth process in which, if we have a normal birth with anterior presentation, the first part of the skull to connect with and be stimulated as it gets into position for birth is the posterior portion of the crown of the skull which is closely linked energetically or somatically to the the pineal gland... 

I had been doing the sensory sequence to feel the progression from the posterior area of the crown to the celestial crown, associated with mamilary bodies, on to the frontal area, associated with the pituitary gland... This can be done easily by gently cupping the posterior crown area and giving yourself a gentle massage, then moving to the celestrial crown at the center (the same area we may visualize as being the connection between our gravity line to the earth and the star we could imagine we are connected to through the forces of levity.)

I think it was this exploration that brought this image into my dream, as I was integrating the somatic sense of it and the kind of consciousness I felt awakening... It was Bonnie Bainbridge who mentioned that this pineal area was the area elongated on the Egyptian royal babies... Intuitively I believe that it was perhaps to sensitize the mystically understood pineal functions more? 

There is more here from the somatic practice. The full moon rising at the base of the skull has to do with new sensory information entering through the back of the brain, through the brainstem really—this is a pathway for the brain gets new information that can be integrated from the bodies experience bypasing the controlling exectutive function, whose recorded patterns, in cases of injury may no longer be effective... or simply to begin the expand our own sense and experience of what is possible, of what we can embody, perceive, live...  So in a sense there is a prayer, an opening a call present in the image for this full moon to bring in greater understanding, new information from the cosmos.  This is in fact the way the brain originally laid down its patterns of understanding, from the direct experience.