This August, I have read through piles of books, weird and not so weird, factual and conjectural, both fantastically and poorly researched. Here\’s my research for this picture so far: Jean-Yves Leloup\’s Gospell of Mary Magdalene. (I was so wrong when I felt I hadn\’t encountered Mary Magdalene before. She is all over my bookshelves …
Mary Magdalene
Unexpectedly working on a beautiful new picture. I returned from a Labyrinth Training Workshop at Veriditas, to find that my mom had cancer again. This is her 4th time; each prior time she has been successfully treated and her cancer resolved. She has a truly fantastic team of doctors and feels very safe in their …
Our Feminine Divine
For all of us who feel a little lost, a lot frightened and afraid to come home to our own inner feminine…The metaphorical Divine Mother has all the patience and time in the world to love you, exactly as you are, every day, whether you know it or not. Whether you care or not. Our …
Sacred Marriage
Winter Solstice Meanderings. Exploring the feminine proclivity towards a holistic, simultaneous, synthetic and concrete view of the world. Essentially balancing the linear, sequential, reductionist and abstract way of the masculine worldview. Neither is better. Like the ancient Taoist circle, symbol of symmetry and integration, both are equally present in creative tension. We honor one over the other to …
Bronze Age Moon
The Moon. The subtle guide of our nights, the soft glow of our inner light. Revered and worshipped from time out of mind. The Moon, the symbol of reflected light. Humans too are magnificent symbols of reflected light. Not our own light, but the eternal, vast, unending light of untold universes that does not depend on …
Bronze Age Sun
The Sun. The bright light of our skies, the radiance of our inner fire. Celebrated and worshiped for as long as humans have walked the Earth. The Sun, the fire of our solar plexus; our power center; our will. The place where we feel that gut reaction, the space within that can answer the question \’Who am …
The Wanderer
You are it. You are on your life\’s journey. It doesn\’t get any better than this- so make the most of it. Each day, each hour, each second, counts for all of eternity. It\’s not \’out there\’. It\’s right here – in the relationship that you have with the smallest moments of your life. The glance …
On being an artist
Today is a lovely day to be in the studio. Some days are hard- nothing is flowing, questions of color and form are asked but not answered. Self-doubt and fear are easy companions. But not today. Today is dark out, rain and damp, but bright and joyful in spirit inside. I always light candles and …
Tree and Stone
For I have a message I would repeat to you, a word of tree and a whisper of stone the sighing of the heavens to the earth… From the The Baal Cycle, 13th century BC. We are separated from the land, and from our own nature. This is a choice. The truth is deep, unfathomable belonging. The truth …
The Green Man
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