This new drum is calling out for a dreamer. Someone who can read the shapes of messages behind the stars. A drummer who hears the songs of the night sky.
This new drum of
Cortes Island deer and BC spruce wood is fastened with a pentacle, the most widely revered of all esoteric symbols. In ancient times the pentacle meant 'life' or 'health' and was derived from the apple core pentacle of the Earth Mother, according to
The Women's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects.
The pentacle of this Dreamer's drum is also an interlacement pattern, which means its double layer of rawhide thongs is one continuous thread of invocation to the Sacred. The ancients generally regarded stars as living entities: angels, legendary heroes, the souls of the unborn or the newly dead.
This drum was built during the summer season of light, but has waited until this season of darkness to be offered. As dreams need time to incubate in darkness before coming into their strength just before dawn, so some spiritual companions need time to mature into their purpose.
Please check the
journeyoracle.com posting on YouTube in the next weeks for the voice of this drum being played with a felted drumstick. If this is your drum unpainted, please email me at journeyoracle@gmail.com. Otherwise I look forward to sharing with you, during the first weeks of December, the painted face of this Dreamer's drum.
