On New Year’s Eve we witnessed a blue moon in our skies. Blue does not refer to the colour of the moon that night… it was the rare incidence of a thirteenth moon in the year. Hence, we use the phrase ‘once in a blue moon’ to single out rare happenings. The occasion triggered the connect to a visual that I use during my unlearning unlimited workshops.
It is a photograph that is widely circulated on the net to demonstrate the illusion of sight. The visual is about a lady sitting before a dressing table mirror, but it appears like a human skull. On stretching our observation, we notice many more possibilities… a bulb, a sailing ship, a wedding, a fort, so on and so forth…
Whenever somebody suggests that they can see a moon, I immediately ask, ‘Is the moon yellow in colour?’ Most persons laugh and instantly declare that it actually looks like the yellow sun. I repeat my question till somebody answers that the moon is quite often yellow in colour, especially when close to the horizon.
The lesson is obvious. Our minds are conditioned to pick up white and silver colours when we seek to colour the drawing of a moon. But it can be seen in many colours… if we would only look to see! We must be better at keeping an open mind… for it is only an open mind that can see the spectrum of possibilities... and the many colours of the moon!
Let’s BE BETTER at searching the skies to see
The visionary moon is as coloured as it can be!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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