Women’s Work

A couple of years ago, I was gifted a book called Moon, Moon, written by Anne Kent Rush in 1976, which was in part a loose encyclopedia of the moon and lunar cycles. It was another part experiment in interdisciplinary musing, weaving in illustrations of Hindu goddesses alongside a journaled list of Rush’s recent dreams, alongside Yeats’ poetry, Milton, goddess art and Buddhist sayings, “Fly Me to the Moon,” the history of the moon as the matriarch, “I see the moon, And the moon sees me,” moon consciousness …