Moon Time Mosaic Maker

A few months ago I learned how to create photo mosaics using Flickr by following a fun and thoughtful exercise posted on my friend Danette Relic's Blog. Since then, I have created my own little mosaic exercise inspired by another friend, colleague, and menstrual activist named Miranda Gray. Knowing that our days of menstruation are days when we may have lpossibly the least access to our left brain - a harder time communicating verbally and an easier time communicating through imagery and dreams, I use this time to create a mosaic of images that remind me of values, goals, activities, and passions that I hope will guide me and center me in my upcoming moon cycle. Here is what you do:

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. What am I looking forward to in the coming month?
2. What icons and images are resonating with me right now?
3. What activities can I do this month that will ground me in my values?

When you come up with at least six objects, ideas or responses to these questions, search Flickr based on these words and find an image that speaks to you. Sometimes the image will clearly depict the idea you had in mind (for example, the image in my mosaic of the woman blissfully enjoying her music), other times the image that you choose may have nothing to do with the original idea you were trying to convey (as is the case with my Peacock). This doesn’t matter. What matters is that the images in your mosaic invoke the mood or tone that you want to set for your coming month. When you have chosen your images, upload them to the Mosaic Maker site and enter the URL for each flickr image that you chose (I keep a copy of the URLs in a word document so that in the event that the site crashes I don’t lose all my chosen images) into the designated spaces. Then press “Create Mosaic” and voila! You can save, print, edit and share your mosaic. Have fun and feel free to share your own creations by posting a response to this entry!