Moon Mountain....Now this is a preamble to Mountain being another association of Moon energy. """ The word Mountain - Alternative forms montaigne, montane, montayn, montayne, monteine, mountaigne, mountain, mounteyn, mounteyne, mowntayn, mowntayne, mownteyn, mowynten, muntain, muntayne.....Etymology Borrowed from Anglo-Norman muntaigne, muntaine, from Early Medieval Latin montānia. """.....So where 'Mun or is a derivative of Moon (eg. Monday) ...and, I believe that 'Mountain' signifies moon growth, i.e. if the moon affects the water on this planet, the tides of the sea and the waters of the body...I think that Mountain energy is also about growth from Moon activity (usually hidden as it's energy goes about its business, and takes days, MONths, and years, decades, and even epochs, a mountain will not appear overnight)...both in regards to the topological and geographical features of earth, but also the topological features of the psyche. The mountain by its movement, causes then the contrast of deep chasms and valleys (the psyche equivalent being the vale of tears, in certain religions), and the rising of the mountain in the landscape is set to meet you there. The travels and traversing of the terrains of the moon activity in the self is a mapless -place, uncharted interventions that require you, by invitation, to walk up, stumble up, climb up, crawl up mountains....unawares... but Up you go all the same....It is in response to an inner calling that demands of you to 'see' from the mountain top, when you finally get there...and can see deep down into the chasms below and get true perspective of the journey that has UNFOLDED YOU... BY unfolding FOR you. A mystic's journey that we all take knowingly or unknowingly, because the masterpiece is....the uniqueness of everyone's journey. The top of the mountain is where you have conquered your fears, and all the sublevels below are where we have stayed till the psyche pushes us up further along. The heart needs the courage to navigate the journey through uncharted diversions...That are HIDDEN, and lay unseen in the heart (subconscious) but play out in manifested outer circumstances and challenges, some small, some big, and some that drag you through hell and back, - until you get to the gold that was planted for you. My story to date, ends and closes a long 'mountainous' cycle with a surprise visit to the top of a mountain, that I didn't even know until day or two before that I was going on. This encounter was emerging, to inform me, that in retrospect, and in hindsight, that my journey had come to this place.... OR that I had taken myself on this long journey.... where courage is both the currency and the gift, and gold now shines through the eye. Gods land: I was in the mountains near by Tashkent, Uzbekistan. To my surprise, there were CYCLists preparing to go down the mountain on mountain bikes. There was a prayer tree, or a wishing tree, Catching prayers in the wind, and blowing them out to universal energy - where people had tied little pieces of cloth, rag, paper to its branches with their thoughts or declarations, prayers, worries, celebrations and thanks. I gave 'Thanks' that the 'mountain' I had climbed in my heart, mind and soul and spirit, was NOW there to meet me, finally showing up in its physical presence. No longer a shadow but drenched in glaring sun. Michaela