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The Gray Wolf, The Umpqua Mariposa Lily & The Moon


     


https://tinyurl.com/wolfsmoon 

                   The Moon invites us into the landscape of intuition, the place where light is soft and knowing comes not from sight, but from the senses. Beneath this glow, the Gray Wolf moves as a creature of shadows. Once hunted to near extinction through relentless “predator-control” campaigns, the wolf persists, carrying stories of loss and resilience through its howl. Reminding us that what is feared is often what is most essential, and that balance cannot exist without the wild. The Umpqua Mariposa Lily, found only in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon holds the memory of persistence, fragile but deeply rooted in place. Logging and habitat loss threaten its quiet existence, yet each bloom is an act of faith, defiance against erasure. Together, these beings gather under the Moon’s watch, a union of strength and delicacy, intuition and endurance. The Moon card asks us to look beyond certainty, to trust the unseen currents that guide life’s return. Protecting wolves and lilies alike begins with awareness, with choosing stewardship over dominance, kinship over control. Support habitat restoration, listen to the land, and amplify the voices that defend it. The Moon reminds us that preservation is not passive, it is an act of devotion, one that restores not only what we’ve endangered, but what we’ve forgotten to revere. I wanted to use wood to emboss with because I wanted to capture a more natural chatter, I embossed the print rather than printing with ink because I wanted to have the moon be what is seen from a distance, inviting you all to take an intimate look of the wolf dancing up towards the sky. The Gray wolf’s protections have been in limbo historically and again more recently. There are people who want to protect their livestock and people who want to protect the wolf. 





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