This week’s art card is a new moon card, and deliberately so — there is no moon to be seen.
Instead, I’ve been thinking about the night sky itself: deep blues and indigos, fractured and held together like a stained glass window. Small stars glow quietly between the dark shapes, not demanding attention, just present. The lower half of the card shifts into greens — land beneath sky — a reminder of being held by the earth even when everything above feels vast and unknown.
New moons, for me, are about internal reflection rather than outward action. A pause. A breath. A moment of care that doesn’t need to be shared or justified. This card is less about intention-setting and more about permission: permission to rest, to tend gently, to sit in the dark without rushing towards illumination.
I’ve been noticing how comfort shows up in very small ways at the moment — hand cream rubbed in slowly, using a favourite glass for water, reading instead of scrolling, letting quiet be enough. This card holds that feeling: the beauty of what’s unseen, unfinished, and still becoming.
A Small Update from the Studio: Beira
Alongside the card, there’s a little studio update too.
My Beira doll is slowly taking shape. The basic form is now made — soft, pale cloth and long white hair — still very much at an early stage. She has no facial features yet, no clothes, no colour beyond the raw materials. I’m planning to dye her a very pale blue, and then begin building her garments and details gradually, layer by layer.
At the moment she feels like a presence rather than a finished figure, which actually feels right. Beira is a character tied to winter, thresholds, and deep time — she doesn’t need to be rushed. For now, she sits quietly in the studio alongside an older doll, a reminder that creative work often unfolds in cycles, just like the seasons themselves.
This feels especially fitting alongside the new moon: both the card and the doll are about beginnings that aren’t yet visible, ideas still resting in darkness.
Ena Green Designs 