The beauty of a flower and a bee.

From my garden A Summer Poem By Hudley Flipside : An Underground Bard So much given to us for free All of creation Watch the flowers open up To share nectar to the bees, butterflies, bumblebees The hungry hummingbirds. In return pollination. A free giving cycle… We humans are as flowers, We can open our … Continue reading The beauty of a flower and a bee.

From darkness to light, Hip Hip.

March so comes the remembering of from darkness to the light, as the days gradually stretch longer and the cold fades into warmth. It is a time for renewal, where nature awakens from its winter slumber, and vibrant colors begin to paint the landscape once more. With each passing day, the sunlight invigorates the spirit, … Continue reading From darkness to light, Hip Hip.

Sterling Hayden and Growling Water

Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986. “Where from, you growling water? How old are you? Did you come in from the sea with the midnight flood? Were you sired by an iceberg out of the South Polar Cap, or was your dam a cloud knocked up by the High … Continue reading Sterling Hayden and Growling Water

The Nasty woman is me

The Nasty Woman “In his late works , he embodied these and other ills in the nightmare ridden figure of the cosmic giant Albion, or universal humanity, who has fallen in to deadly sleep of mundane existence. In humanity’s coma, the divine is a remote and forbidding sky-god: nature a sterile heap of atoms, lovers … Continue reading The Nasty woman is me

Resilient

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.” ― William Blake It was terrifying living through California fires. I took a picture across the street then of what I see as a fire monster. At least it looks like one. The fires … Continue reading Resilient

In its highest sense.

To my friend Dionysus "According to Jung, humanity holds a special role in creation: to contribute to the act of consciousness, and the point of view of morality, in its highest sense." ~ Johnson, Robert A. Ecstasy (p. 64) Harper One. Kindle Edition.

Flowing Myrrh

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) (1445 � 1510)La Derelitta I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.” I have taken off my … Continue reading Flowing Myrrh

Bathed in its own reflection.

"By their fruits you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistle?" ~ Mat. 7:16 Jerusalem, Plate 28 Proof Impression William Blake

AZOTH

Azoth is "all-inclusiveness” and the spiritual ray of Neptune which is the higher octave of Mercury. How this all came together is a current event of our times. Alchemical symbols and studies are something I do. I have worked with images and ancient insights for years. Not always understanding the full meanings yet trying to … Continue reading AZOTH

Bubbles. Christ ‘Salvator Mundi’

While sitting in my computer room I heard a lady screaming. In a fire windy weaving voice yelling, "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!!" The car raced by my home. Oldest son heard it too. It was not directed at us, but we did catch it in passing. Last night while watching reruns of Ancient … Continue reading Bubbles. Christ ‘Salvator Mundi’

The Ngangikurungkurr

Dream time....Australian Aboriginal Art The Ngangikurungkurr practice what they call dadirri, a form of deep listening for these sacred stories. As Aboriginal elder Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr puts it, “Through the years, we have listened to our stories. They are told and sung, over and over, as the seasons go by. Today we still gather around the … Continue reading The Ngangikurungkurr

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Strauss)

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang (Introduction, or Sunrise) Von den Hinterweltlern (Of Those in Backwaters) Von der großen Sehnsucht (Of the Great Longing) … Continue reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Strauss)

Sedna’s Signature

Sedna’s Signature Great Ocean Mother,I call upon you to grace my shores.I make myself as still as sand,who knows the patience of millennia,having been ground down to my essential parts. I wait my turn at the edge of known thingsthat you might soak me with your rising swell.I wish for nothing but to be dislodged … Continue reading Sedna’s Signature

Ouroboros

This was one of the first sites I returned to again and again in the early days of the net. I haven’t revisited it for years, but came across the link in one of my old blogs, and realized I’d been lucky to find these reference to the Ouroboros in the years before the net […] … Continue reading Ouroboros

highlights

At a corner in our living room every year, at a certain time of the year, the hanging crystal outside our window highlights a rainbow bridge through my Chiron Stencil Watercolor painting. As you can see, I tried to capture this in the image above. In mythology Chiron is known as the rainbow bridge between … Continue reading highlights

Female asteroids fun !!

Happy National Women’s History Month. March 2025. https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/About.html I am happy to say that my original four watercolors-were sold at a Fundraiser for the National Women's Health Network. A Silent Auction. "A Voice for Women, A network of change." Asteroid Goddesses, Ceres, Pallas Athene, Vesta, Juno Female asteroid goddess fun! Praying Mantis is an anthropomorphism … Continue reading Female asteroids fun !!

Symbols are interesting

AZOTH Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. ~ genesis. 6th woodcut from the series in Basil Valentine's

An unrecognized alien

You’ll have to get out of these little boxes, you know, physics on my left and psychology on my right, you can’t do that, you cannot do that in dealing with UFOs. What I’m saying is you cannot do that anymore in dealing with astrophysics. The problem that scientists have today is that time and … Continue reading An unrecognized alien

Astraea: “Iam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia Regna”

A layperson’s study of William Blake and other reflections…. “The darkness of our world Is not knowing and understanding; Light can only come, when we Make it our business to find it.” ~ Socrates ca. 470-399 B.C. "A vision of the Last Judgement. It is an endeavor to restore what the ancients call the Golden … Continue reading Astraea: “Iam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia Regna”

Leaping in torments

Io: Leaping in torments of hunger I come With a furious rush, the victim Of the cunning and jealousy of Hera Suffers what I suffer? ~But mark out clearly The Fate that will be mine in time To come; what remedy, what medicine for ill? Tell me, if you know them: Speak to the virgin … Continue reading Leaping in torments