Weekly Mandala: Edge of the Mundane

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Weekly Mandala: Micro ChaoStar

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Weekly Mandala: Chaos Star Spinning Happiness

This echoes back to Karma and my Sending Out post, but with the addition of the Chaos Star.  Never fight fair.  Nature doesn’t.  However, I do not mean this in the sense of being vicious or vindictive.  Turns guns into flowers, hate into orgasms, conflict into understanding.  Undermine everything  and transform the World.  This is the lesson of Pluto in Capricorn (2008-2023)  combined with Neptune in Pisces (2011-2025) and Uranus in Aries (2010-2019). These forces become the water of life, dissolving the old structures of our world and releasing knowledge and energy.

Our challenge becomes keeping pace with this evolutionary force.  Our world doesn’t end with the finalizing of the Mayan calendar cycle.  It transforms beyond our previous understanding of it.  Try explaining our current world state to someone with a 19^th century worldview and you begin to see. Heck, try explaining our world to someone from the beginning of the 20^th century!  We are in the throes of birth change.  We are becoming the future.  MUTATE NOW!

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Solve et Coagula: The Grid

The symbol repeated here represents a great deal for me, but the basis of it is the alchemical formula of Solve et Coagula.  Dissolve and Coagulate.  Expansion and Contraction.  Pushing away and Drawing to.  Increase and Decrease.  It is the essence of Duality within the spirit.  The pump of the Heart.  The Rhythm of Sex.  

The single image on its own is kind of my take on the eight pointed star of Chaos Magick.  However it resonates more strongly with Solve et Coagula, but both can be true.  ;-) The longer I have the image around the more I keep finding new meanings attaching themselves to it.  Somehow in my head this is connected with Robert Anton Wilson's and Timothy Leary's views on reality tunnels.  I haven't worked all the bugs out on that one yet so I'll have to get back to you on that.  I suspect this symbol will be with me for awhile and possibly showing up in other works...so there's time. 

This was my desktop for awhile, but it is a little challenging to look at day in and day out.  However, if you enjoy optical effects, make it your desktop and stare at it for awhile and watch what happens.  :-)  Be sure to look at the larger version of this...the jpg thumbnail that blogger created seems to have blurred a bit and upset the contrast of the original image.

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