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On the Birth of Aphrodite
If our exact time of place and birth is like a lodestar to interpreting our qualities and our destiny, it must make a lot of sense to look closely at the birth of Venus and relate what we find to … Continue reading
Posted in Aphrodite/Venus
Tagged Ananke, Aphrodite, apple, archetypes, beauty, birth of Venus, blood, castration, Furies, Gaia, goddess, Greek myth, Greek mythology, harmony, Kronos, love, Ouranos, red, Rilke, rose, sexuality, symbolism, symbols, Titans, Uranus, Venus
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The Wild Abandon of the Vine Month
1.“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk roses and with eglantine. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lulled in these flowers with … Continue reading
Posted in Summer, The Vine
Tagged blood, Celtic calendar, Christ, communion, Dionysus, fairies, Maenads, Midsummer Night's Dream, sacrifice, Shakespeare, symbolism, symbols, vine, vine month, vineard, wine
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“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton
“The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to … Continue reading
Rose Red: Symbolism of Blood
1.“White and red combined are the colour of the mysterious rose, the whiteness of milk and the redness of blood, the white of light and the redness of fire.” Eliphas Levi, “The Book of Splendors” 2.“Blood is the first incarnation of … Continue reading
Posted in Blood
Tagged alchemy, bleeding, blood, body, Carl Gustav Jung, color, Dark goddess, dark moon, depth psychology, family, fate, flesh, goddess, Kali, menstruation, passion, red, rose, rubedo, Sekhmet, symbolism, symbols, ties, whore of Babylon
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Hathor: the Exuberant Goddess of Abundant Life
I.”Who fills the earth with golden motes of sunlight, who comes alive in the liminal east and sets in the liminal west.” II.”I give thee everything that the sky provides, that the earth creates, and the Nile brings from his … Continue reading
Posted in Hathor
Tagged ancient Egypt, archetypes, celestial cow, Dendera, Divine Cow, Egyptian myth, goddess, Hathor, isis, Milky way, myth, mythology, Nefertim, papyrus, summer solstice, symbolism, symbols, the afterlife
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés on the Animus as a Merchant of Soul
“By classical Jungian definition, animus is the soul-force in women, and is considered masculine. However, many women psychoanalysts, including myself, have, through personal observation, come to refute the classical view and to assert instead that the revivifying source in women … Continue reading
Posted in Animus, Quotations
Tagged animus, archetypes, C.G. Jung, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, depth psychology, feminine, masculine, Soul, symbols, Wild Woman, woman
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Wordless Moments of Being
Throughout my life I have been a collector of memorable moments. If I decide I want to capture a certain moment, I stop in my tracks and tell myself to register the impression. I do not have an eidetic sense, … Continue reading
In Praise of Witches
1. “We are an evolving, dynamic tradition and proudly call ourselves Witches. Honoring both Goddess and God, we work with female and male images of divinity, always remembering that their essence is a mystery that goes beyond form. Our community rituals are participatory … Continue reading
Posted in The Witch
Tagged archetypes, darkness, discrimination, evil, Hekate, magic, symbolism, symbols, The Malleus Malleficarum, witch, witch trials, witch-hunt, witchcraft, witches, women
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Nature and Consciousness – Seeing Things as They Are
Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
© Luc Viatour (CC BY-SA 3.0) Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is no “nature” – no way to identify, quantify,…
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