Gaia's Ark 

Even In a House Of Mirrors, you can see that everything has a Soul.

Life always finds a way......

Yesh-Me Ayin, We came from nothingness.

The Earth was formed from nothingness, according to Hesoids Theogony, we came from Chaos, an abyss....

And according to Hindu belief, from vast nothingness came an infinite OM....

From the Most hardest of Substances, particles of Life are formed. From a seemingly endless void, A divine Spark of Life.........Nature shows that life is continuous, it only dies to replenish and give birth to itself...to Live and Grow again. The Earth itself has DNA memory, and can reproduce what it has produced before. We are part of a Collective, World Soul, and Anima Mundi..... 

We are all interconnected, part of the same Divine Spark, Life Force. And our Single DNA, Soul is remembered.

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Kundalini energy, isn't empathetic to Vices or Pacifiers. No matter what you are suffering, it will not let you continue to Pacify with addiction. Kundalini Awakening is an extremely Raw, and Sober Awakening. It leaves no room for excuses, ignorance, illusions, but Intense Hyper- Awareness. Liberation from Illusion.

We living Souls, Communicate much greater than Speech, we communicate by actions, facial expressions, or sometimes, just with the Eyes.

We communicate well beyond mere speech. We are evolved well beyond that.

Love, is the only Reality. The only thing that's Real.

Love cannot be rationalised, it is beyond the minds rationality and is a law of its own. It IS Reality.

This is something that connects us to all living creatures, Love is not discriminate or selective, Love is ALL.

We communicate with Animals Frequently, with this deeper part of our Soul.

We are all connected.

Even in a House of Mirrors, we can see that all of us have a soul. Even in the depths of illusion, we can experience that Love is beyond Aesthetics.

We can fool the Conscious mind with anything, but the Subconscious mind is never Fooled. There will always be division and duality until the consciousness is wed into One.

 

The Peacock- The Infinite EYE. We can see the world through an Ayin Hara or an Ayin Tova, a Evil or Good Eye. This painting is the Awakening of the Ajna Chakra, The Third Eye.

The Same Divine Soul, in different heavenly bodies and manifestations

Gaia.

We fear both Death and Birth, but really they are the same thing, the Unknown.

In Nature there is infinite ending, and infinite beginning

Star Sign Capricorn

The Devil

Letter Ayin

The waking of the Third Eye.

I painted my friend Kristy Howden as my Goddess Gaia.

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Artemis and Endymion 

The Stages of Muraquba....Are the Levels of Meditation between Sleep and Awake. Endymion dreamed a dream so vivid, he entered into that realm in waking, and the dream became his waking.

Endymion woke in the realm of the Moon, and her passionate embrace.

So dear a picture of his sovereign power,

And I could witness his most kingly hour,

When he doth lighten up the golden reins,

And paces leisurely down amber plains

His snorting four. Now when his chariot last

Its beams against the zodiac-lion cast,

There blossom’d suddenly a magic bed

John Keats- Endymion

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its lovliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

John Keats- Endymion

Nor knew that nests were built. Now a soft kiss—

Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss,

An immortality of passion's thine:

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Ere long I will exalt thee to the shine

Of heaven ambrosial; and we will shade

Ourselves whole summers by a river glade;

And I will tell thee stories of the sky,

And breathe thee whispers of its minstrelsy.

My happy love will overwing all bounds!

O let me melt into thee; let the sounds

Of our close voices marry at their birth;

Let us entwine hoveringly — O dearth

Of human words! roughness of mortal speech!

John Keats- Endymion

The Tantric Pearl, On an Oyster Bed

Star sign Cancer

 The Chariot 

Letter Chet.

Lo! while slow carried through the pitying crowd,

To his inward senses these words spake aloud;

Written in star-light on the dark above:

"Dearest Endymion! my entire love!

How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done—

Immortal bliss for me too hast thou won.

Arise then! for the hen-dove shall not hatch

Her ready eggs, before I'll kissing snatch

Thee into endless heaven. Awake! awake!"

John Keats- Endymion


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Eve's Divine Comedy 

In the Divine Comedy, Adam and Eve were in Purgatory. In my Depiction, much like Dante and Beatrice, they are Ascending.

In Paradiso, The First Sphere of Heaven is The Moon.

 Sphere of the inconstant.

Above Eve is The 8th Sphere, the 'Sphere of the Fixed Stars'....Hope Faith and Love. For the 8th Sphere of fixed stars,  The Constellation Gemini- Pollux and Castor. The Twins.

In the window is Jupiter, the Sixth Sphere, the Sphere of those whom personified Justice.

Heaven..

                                                                    Musica Universala

Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole." (Pythagoras)

Music of the Spheres....Sheets of Music fall from the Organ, which become tree leaves, music of life, nature. Each is a sheet of Music from The planets by Holtz. Mercury- The Winged Messenger, Mars- the war bringer, Venus- the bringer of Peace, Jupiter- the Bringer of Jollity, Saturn- the Bringer of Old Age, Neptune- The Mystic and Uranus- the Magician.

The Abraxas.

The Center planet above is Mercury, the Second Sphere in the Divine Comedy. The Sphere of the Ambitious, and Ruler of Gemini.

The planets below are Uranus and Saturn.

                                        Saturn is the Seventh Sphere, the Sphere of Temperance.

 In Alchemy, the Sun and Moons Marriage is united under Mercury, it becomes One.

In Paradiso, the Fourth Sphere of Heaven- The Sun.

 Sphere of the Wise.

Above Adam is the other half of the 8th Sphere of fixed stars, and half of the constellation Gemini, the brother Castor.

The small planet in the window is Neptune, My favourite planet, and above in the top right hand is Mars, the Fifth Sphere. The Sphere of Fortitude.

The Lovers, A Love that holds Hands from the Depths of Hell to the Heights of the Heavens.

In the Divine Comedy, Beatrice is A guide to Dante, Like a higher aspect of his soul.

Between Adam and Eve, in the opening gate, is the Planet Venus, The Third Sphere. The Sphere of The Lovers.

The Garden Of Eden

The Fallen State of Adam.

Dante's rings of the Inferno.

 Star Sign Gemini

 The Lovers
Letter Zayin

The Fallen state of Eve.

The rising of Kundalini, from the base of the spine to the crown, is like Eves ascent back towards Adam- (or Adams ascent back to Eve ) . The fallen state is Our soul in its putrefied form. The Lead to be transmuted into Gold.

In Tantra, it is the Ascent of Shakti (At the Base of the spine) To her Lover Shiva (At the Crown) The marriage of each is illuminated consciousness- Liberty.

The lower and higher aspects are either sexuality, meaning the rise is of Masculine to fem, or feminine to masc. For Dante, his guide, and higher soul, was feminine; Beatrice.

But now was turning my desire and will,

Even as a wheel that equally is moved,

The Love which moves the Sun and the other Stars.

~ Dante, Paradiso, last line in the Divine Comedy

I painted my Brother Dylan Swanson, and Alyssia Swanson as my Adam and Eve.

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      The Madonna's Marriage  

                        Alchemical Wedding.                     

                  Spiritual Retreat, Solitude, Liberation of Being, Illumination.

                                                     

                                                   

White Rose and Womb of the Divine Mother.

Behind the Madonna, is a crow, initial stage of Putrification.
 



 Alchemical Transmutation;

Peacock, and Pelican.

 Eternal Phoenix

The Infinite

The Hebrew Word for Fire is Esh

It is the Divine Mother Kundalini.
 The Fire in our Bodies, Divine Light, Life Force itself.

Nephesh Chaiah

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Fire is the Force of the Shekinah, Divine Mother. The Goddess herself is an illuminate flame.

Esh is spelt Aleph- Shin, Aleph is the Air, and Shin the Fire, together become Esh.  The Kundalini

 Fire and Air Underwater (Creation, Divine Life forming in the Womb)

The Swan.

Whitening

  Star Sign Virgo

 The Hermit 

Letter Yod.

Rose Ship.

I painted my Grandmother Edna Frater as my Madonna.

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Athena's Maps for Odysseus 

Sagittarius

Temperance

Samech

The Cup of Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus is returning home to his beloved wife Penelope. Guided by the Goddess Athena.

In my portrayal Athena is the Solar Current, Penelope the Luna, they are both manifestations of One woman.

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One representing the childlike warmth, joy and innocence of Love (The Sun) And the other, the sensuality and romance (The Moon)

In the Odyssey,

even Calypso and Circe can be manifestations of the same feminine energy, like shadows of Athena and Penelope.

Calypso is cold and unfeeling, and Circe is Madness.

Circe (Madness) is like a shadow of Athena's Divinity, and Calypso (Coldness, Death) is like a shadow of Penelope's loving warmth.

In the Kabbalah tree of life, the path of Temperance (Samech) is like a Knight on a path between Death (Nun) and the Devil (Ayin).

Athena/ Penelope are like the Knight, the Samech.

Calypso is like Death.

and Circe is like the Devil.

Perhaps the manifestations and shadows of One person.

Alchemy, Art, Temperance

'She spoke, and still more roused in him the passion for weeping. He wept as he held his lovely wife, whose thoughts were virtuous. And as when the land appears welcome to men who are swimming, after Poseidon has smashed their strong-built ship on the open water, pounding it with the weight of wind and the heavy seas, and only a few escape the gray water landward by swimming, with a thick scurf of salt coated upon them, and gladly they set foot on the shore, escaping the evil; so welcome was her husband to her as she looked upon him, and she could not let him go from the embrace of her white arms. (23.231-240) HOMERS ODYSSEY

The Dance of Lovers.

Next to each Cup, are Coins. Odysseus's coin has a head of Athena, and Athena's Coin has a tail of  Odysseus. Each  King and Queen.

Alchemical Process.

A Coffee shop Odyssey.

The night Sky, a liquid Starry Sea, Map of the Heavens.

Penelope is cradling the Moon. Greatly influenced by the Goddess Nuit, she is the night sky, her body itself is the Heavens.

On the Right, the Constellation Argo Navis, sails the sea of the night sky, map of the heavens.

The Star Sign Sagittarius

 Temperance, or Alchemy/ Art

 Letter Samech.

Maps.

 Athena guided the Soul of Odysseus on its Journey.

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Ariadne's Crown  

The Star Sign Pisces

 The Moon, 

Letter Kuf

The Goddess Ariadne, Goddess of the Labyrinth and Minoan Crete's Snake Goddess.

Bride to Dionysus.

THE LABYRINTH- OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS;

These private walls the Minotaur include,

Who twice was glutted with Athenian blood:

But the third tribute more successful prov'd,

Slew the foul monster, and the plague remov'd.

When Theseus, aided by the virgin's art,

Had trac'd the guiding thread thro' ev'ry part,

He took the gentle maid, that set him free,

And, bound for Dias, cut the briny sea.

There, quickly cloy'd, ungrateful, and unkind,

Left his fair consort in the isle behind,

Whom Bacchus saw, and straining in his arms

Her rifled bloom, and violated charms,

Resolves, for this, the dear engaging dame

Shou'd shine for ever in the rolls of Fame;

And bids her crown among the stars be plac'd,

With an eternal constellation grac'd.

The golden circlet mounts; and, as it flies,

Its diamonds twinkle in the distant skies;

There, in their pristin form, the gemmy rays

Between Alcides, and the dragon blaze.

Underground of Ariadne's Labyrinth. 

Hell, the Seven Sins and the Demons which represent them.

People are either like Cats or Dogs- they either live for Love, or serve Masters.

One is a life of Freedom- the other, Slavery.

Ultimate Freedom is to Live Love, including Self Love.

Slavery, is serving possessions, money, addictions, and illusions of Love that excludes ones self.
 A Life of prisons.

Cats don't serve, Cats are Masters.

Cats have Self Love- the dog will be chained and serve regardless of what happens to them.
Real Love includes Self Love.

A Cats Life is a life of Freedom.

Everything Cats do is for Love, basking in the Sun in eternal Ecstasy, exploring the universe in Gardens, Giving and receiving Affection in Blissful Contentment...

But they will not be mistreated, they have Value for themselves and their Existence.

Ecstasy in Love, includes Self Love.

Water into wine

With the Grapes of Dionysus

Cats live a life of Freedom

Cats Live For Love

Ariadne's Crown- Corona Borealis.

Love is Joy.

Ariadne was heartbroken, deserted by Theseus, after helping him out of the Labyrinth. Dionysus rediscovered her and crowned her as his Queen, with stars from the heavens- constellation Corona Boreallis, infinitely in the night sky.

                              Passionate Dionysus, Bacchus was the most faithful of all the Gods.

Ariadne, like the Vitruvian Man, forms the Five Pointed Star of

                                                                      Resurrection.

Her Five points are exalted, healing and liberated (Hands Feet Crown)

                                                                          Like a Star.

The Ladder is from the story of Jacobs Dream- Jacobs Ladder- which is as the Spine (the letter Kuf, back of the head and spine..)

And the Kundalini is raised up the spine- achieving Awakening, Enlightenment and Liberation of  the Soul. Universal Consciousness.

A healing Caduceus (formed by the Ladder-Spine and snakes Kundalini.)

In the Clouds above Ariadne,

 are each of the seven Virtues.

Ariadne's Games; Her Labyrinth, Chess, Snakes and Ladders....

The Liberated Mind in The Waters of The Moon.

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