Weekly Mandala: Ray Turn Two Yes Odd

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Weekly Mandala: Opening

A confusion of darkness parts and a window into hope is revealed.  A much more quiet sky this week in the afterglow of the Uranus Pluto Square.  We'll see some more fireworks from that square with the Full Moon on the 29th, but overall a MUCH quieter week.

• 24th- Moon in Capricorn square Saturn in Libra.  This evening the Moon moves into Aquarius we will feel the energy pick up pace as we edge closer to the Full Moon on Friday.

• 26th - Moon and Mercury trine Jupiter gives us energy and boosts faith and confidence.  Bouyant energy, things are looking up.

• 27th- Venus square Mars.  Passions run high.  Avoid fighting and aim at peacemaking instead.

• 29th- The Full moon in Aries is hitting the Uranus Pluto Square energy.  Sun in Libra opposes Uranus in Aries and Sun in Libra squares Pluto in Capricorn.  Speeding up the wrap up of Saturn in Libra, but pinging those Libra lessons one last time to make sure we got the point if we didn't catch the lesson the first time.

• 30th- Moon still Aries but easing off the intensity by sextiling Jupiter.

Recommended Listening:
Polar Dream
Endless Tales
from Follow Me to the Forest

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From the Archives: Janus Tornado

More Janus imagery and more tornado imagery. This piece is drawn in a style that I used for many years prior to my introduction to Photoshop.  It was kind of somewhere between Francis Bacon and H.R. Giger.

Recommended Listening:
Cocteau Twins
Hitherto
The Pink Opaque

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From the Archives: Sun Moon

This represents the crystallization of the link between the Sun and Moon, the unification of the conscious and the unconscious.  Diving deep into the unconscious for the Philosopher's stone, the marriage of Heaven and Earth, as above, so below.  This is an image I created for an event poster.  The Sun Moon in the center was later used as a basis for a tattoo design.

Recommended Listening:
Data Romance
The Deep
Data Romance

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Passage of the Dark Daughter

I begin to understand.

I have found my way.

Without words,

Without reason,

I went blindly inside,

Fingertips feeling through the unending night

And found safe passage to the sky.

I found my way.

Not of this world and all its answers,

Not of sight or of numbers or of phones,

But of the ocean inside my veins.

The pressure of my pain and fear

Burst me like ripe fruit

And open,

My glistening seeds fell into me.

I look back at myself in wonder,

I found my way!

There is nothing you can give me

There is nothing I can hold to.

The way is all that matters now.

I thought it lost to time and torture,

But I followed the waters,

Oh blessed patient waters.

I found my way!

I slip beneath my waves

And into my indigo depths.

I undulate like my heart

And feel only the within.

The endless within.

The quiet dark part of me speaks.

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Update 05-12-12
Recommended Listening:

Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke
The Circulation of Shadows
from Duality

From the Archives: Nightscape

A little Van Gogh tribute, but also a tribute to nighttime.    The moon has always been a powerful force in my life.  It does govern the tides...and we are made up of a good bit of water.  :-)  In the end, this is mostly just a sketch, but I feel it captures the FEELING of night, which was my goal.

This could be pushed much further, but other projects demand my attention right now.  Another for the "make this better later" pile.  This was done also around the time I discovered the paintbrush goodness in Photoshop. 

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From the Archives: Man in the Moon

Here is an older piece.  I think I may have posted this somewhere else, but for the life of me I cannot find the other post.  I think the other is in color also, but I prefer this version.  My friend Josh and I were discussing how this looks a bit like Alan Moore.  I'm okay with that.  :-)

I've been attracted to the crescent shaped Man in the Moon for some time.  I kind of chalk it up to my attraction to mythological masculine imagery.  The moon is many times assumed to be feminine in nature, but my personal belief is that these energies are beyond gender and express themselves in many ways.  Regardless, this is the image that speaks to my soul.

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