Weekly Mandala: Home Lotus

A comfy and peaceful emanation.   This one was developed from a photo of a friends home.  However, the lighting was very dark and the colors were much more intense.  His home is a very comfy place though.  :-)  A little bright restful spot shining within the past few dark months.

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The Black Goat

This one is an echo of The Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.  Also there feels to be an influence of Pluto here as well.  Not completely sure why this one is called the Black Goat.  I knew that was the title once it was complete, but not completely sure why.  The Piece isn't exactly black or goat.  There is definitely an angelic feeling here.  Perhaps there is a bit of Baphomet in there, but not so much on the Shub Niggurath.

OOP - I may be wrong there...LOL...I just re -read some on Shub and considering what I've gone through the past two months and the heavy influence of Binah (Saturn in Libra - 3 of Swords) in my life recently.  Shub might be spot on.

I also had a strong feeling of Odin and Metatron simultaneously while working on this.  Perhaps black goat is a misnomer on my part.  I may be pulling Shub in because of my current experiences and it may have nothing at all to do with this piece.  There is definitely a mixed bag here regardless.

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Weekly Mandala: Night Lily

Here is another simple one.  This one had only a few rotations to reach this state.  It isn't quite as simple or as spacious as The Desert Rose, but I do enjoy its structure.  I wonder if this what it will look like when the aliens show up to abduct me?

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Sketchbook from the Archives: Color Serpent versus Fireworks

A sharpie drawing from my sketchbook.  I was attempting to bring the style I tend to use with colour pencils to sharpies.  The sharpies are bold and intense, but don't mix as much as I would prefer.  When the colors meet, one will tend to dominate the other with minimal mixing.  Although enjoyable as an experiment in sharpie, I prefer the color pencils.  This may all be moot with as much digital work as I'm doing now.

Apologies for the slight haze the piece.  I currently have no access to a scanner and had to photograph this piece.  Heavy sharpie tends to easily reflect a flash.  This is actually the best of set of seven.  Once I have access to a scanner again I will repost.

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UPDATE:

Over in Zombie Bites, I've been reposting my sketchbook images.  I recently was gifted a wonderful scanner and it is allowing me the opportunity to get some of my physical hand drawn works into the digital realm with better quality.  I think this maybe the only sketch from that set that ended up here in TOBC.  As you can see, this piece benefits greatly from the rescan.  The glare and the blur have been eradicated, letting the wonderful depth of color shine through.  Enjoy.

Weekly Mandala: Collapsing the Waveform

More Inspiration from Peter J. Carroll and the beauty of Quantum Physics...maybe also a little Crown Chakra also.  Sahasrara would make a good bit of sense as collapsing the wave form is all about uniting the Macrocosm and Microcosm.  As above, so below.

A little happy marker with this post:  this is my 52nd post.  When I began working with my blogs more intensely, my plan had been to at least get one post per week for the coming year for a total of fifty-two at the end of the year.  Even though my posts have been biweekly at best, with this post I have surpassed my total goal dramatically.  :-)  Also this is the most posts I have done for trail of bread crumbs in any given year so far.  I know comparatively it isn't much, but this year I am happy to take my little beams of light where I can find them!  My end goals are much further and farther, so it's just a matter of keepin' on keepin' on!  Thanks for reading!

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Invocation

I open myself.
I open myself.
I open myself.
I become cloud and lightning.
I become the doorway and the bridge.
Me becomes Not-Me

and the bridge flares bright with the fire of heaven.

The veil of me spreads like shimmering water.
My skin is taught with the entrance of the Other
as my mind shatters into mirror vapor.
I aim myself into the gap
and refract like lantern light in a funhouse.
There is a sound like bagpipes warming up,
like a distant airplane passing.
Transfixed in this endless moment
I watch the world swallow itself.

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Weekly Mandala: Blue Chaos Star

Somewhere between and snowflake, a doily, and a chaos star.  I've been reading too much Phil Hine and Peter J. Caroll...or perhaps not enough.   :-)


Recommended Listening:
Land
Neo-Noir
from Opuscule


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An Island called Us

Meanwhile at the Cyberpond...Liquidlight technology takes over and transforms the world. What happens when Television screen tech becomes Wafer thin - I think at that point the world goes Psychedelic.  :-)  Walls, Doors, your house exterior, your car, your toaster...everything becomes a screen.  Imagine clothes from Liquidlight tech.  I want that shirt!

Of course I hope the tech takes over before the advertisers do.  If it becomes a world of nothing but walking billboards, I'm quitting and moving to a cave in the mountains.    Call me a luddite if you will, but it would be either that or cyber terrorism.  What exactly would it mean if you hacked someones clothes? LOL  A world of clothes with patterns and images that everyone creates for themselves...that I can get behind.  Then it is just a matter of making it applicable to skin and then I can finally have those leopard spots I've always wanted.  :-P

Wow...I just realized this looks a little like the the big smiley face ship from the original heavy metal movie.  That blows away any other thoughts.  LOL.

Recommended Listening:
Phutureprimitive
Ripple Effect
Kinetik

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Weekly Mandala: Desert Rose

Surprisingly, this one had very few permutations to reach this state.  It looks nothing like the original image either.  The mandalas can sometimes get so complex, I forget how powerful a very simple image can be.  I'm really enjoying the space in this one.   I think that is part of the simplicity as well.  No arbitrary details cluttering the distance.

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My Ducks

Well, I fought against it, denied it, and avoided it, but none of these has worked.  I will be spending this month moving to a new residence in a new town.

My financial situation has bottomed out and I am no longer able to keep the place I am in now.  This may disrupt my posting here for a bit, but hopefully I will be back on track within a month or so.  We'll see. 

I'm kind of making it up as I go along, which is my least favorite place to be.  I'm a Capricorn.  I like all my ducks in a sequential row, color coded, numbered, with cards giving me a personal history of each duck.  My ducks have all  turned into cats with wings and are chasing the pretty butterflies.  Flap, Flap, Flap!  Sigh.

Cherubim of the Mother Sanctum

A little digital nod here to Susan Seddon Boulet.  The bear is associated with Mother energy, protection, and nurturing tough love.  This piece told me its name as soon as it got close to a finished state.

The funny thing in all of this is that I used no animal source material whatsoever.  It just kind of emerged all its own.  I love when that happens.

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Weekly Mandala: Variations

These are some left over variations from my mandala for the Rose Fire into Tipareth.  I should have posted them with that post.  I cannot remember why I did not, but here they are now.  Enjoy.

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The Janus Chariot

I think this piece may exist in the same plane as The Great Wall.  I see the wall now though as less of a barrier and more like a boundary marker...like you're now entering the freeway or some such.

I want to say more about this piece, but I feel blocked on it.  It holds its knowledge in place like a weighted net.  Most of my pieces freely give up their thought or idea to description, but this one, apparently, doesn't want to share.  I've tried writing this description about fifteen different times.  I've left and returned, and still no information presents itself.  I can't even seem to remember what I was feeling when I created the piece.

I am going to let it go and let it be.  You guys tell me what you see / feel / experience.  Perhaps that is the answer here.  Let me know what you find.

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