Tag Archives: Osiris

Turin like a Dream

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Symbol Reader

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears,” wrote Italo Calvino in Invisible Cities. Though Turin is not the first Italian city I have fallen in love with, what I experienced there had not happened to me before. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Turin, Uncategorized | Tagged 45th parallel, alchemical caves, alchemy, Angelic Fountain, Apis, archetypes, art, “White Magic”, black magic, black magic triangle, Castor, Church of the Great Mother of God, cities, coniunctio oppositorum, darkness, duality, Egyptian Museum of Turin, first capital of Italy, Frejus monument, Giorgio de Chirico, Holy Grail, isis, Italo Calvino, Italy, light, magic, Nietzsche, Nostradamus, occultism, Osiris, Palazzo Madama, Piazza Solferino, Piazza Statuto, Pillars of Hercules, Pollux, shroud of Turin, symbolism, symbols, Torino, Turin, union of opposites, white magic triangle | 4 Comments

Osiris, Master of Silence and Renewal

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Symbol Reader

Three giant statues of Osiris, Isis and Hapi, the Nile god of fertility, have been placed at the entrance to Museum Rietberg in Zurich. They were recovered from the sea bed by Franck Goddio, a French underwater archaeologist, who directed … Continue reading →

Posted in Osiris, Uncategorized | Tagged alchemy, ancient Egypt, earth, Egypt, Frankc Goddio, inundation, Nile, Osirian mysteries, Osiris, Rietberg Museum, Seth, Thonis-Heracleion | 12 Comments

The Sublime Silence of Stonehenge

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Symbol Reader

“Pile of Stone-henge! so proud to hint yet keep Thy secrets, thou that lov’st to stand and hear The Plain resounding to the whirlwind’s sweep, Inmate of lonesome Nature’s endless year.” William Wordsworth’s , “Guilt and sorrow; or incidents upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Stonehenge | Tagged ancient Egypt, blue stones, healing, Heelstone, isis, light, Lugh, Lughnasadh, numinous, Orion, Osiris, pagan, Paul D. Burley, religion, Romanticism, Rudolf Otto, Stonehenge, summer solstice, sun, symbolism, Winter Hexagon | 19 Comments

The All-Seeing Eye

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Symbol Reader

1.“Illumination comes to those who hear the song of Light unchanged, unflickering, eternal — Light that is one though the lamps be many.” Dane Rudhyar 2.”The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, … Continue reading →

Posted in The All-Seeing Eye | Tagged alchemy, All Seeing Eye, ancient Egypt, archetypes, Blavatsky, caduceus, cone, esoteric knowledge, esoterism, eye, Eye of Horus, Eye of Re, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Horus, isis, Isis Unveiled, Juno, kundalini, Moon, myth, mythology, Osiris, peacock, peacock’s tail, pineal gland, Plotinus, psychology, putrefation, sun, symbolism, symbols, third eye, Vatican | 34 Comments

Your Golden Hair Margeurite: Hair as a Symbol

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Rapanzel, via http://haleys-comet.deviantart.com/art/Rapunzel-Let-Down-Your-Hair-110501671 In an old pagan ritual known as the Maypole dance, on the Eve of May Day, female dancers circled the pole the counter-clockwise direction, which is sacred to women and associated with the moon while male dancers … Continue reading →

Posted in Hair | Tagged Apollo, archetypes, Auschwitz, Berenice, braids, Coma Berenices, Death Fugue, hair, holocaust, isis, Louis XIV, maypole, mythology, Osiris, Paul Celan, plaits, Samson, Shiva, symbolism, symbols, wigs | 23 Comments

Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Pisces

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Johfra Bosschart, “Pisces” One of the best novels I have read in my whole life is without any shadow of a doubt Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan. Its narrator, William Buelow Gould, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Johfra Bosschart | Tagged Age of Pisces, archetypes, astrology, Dane Rudhyar, divine feminine, Egyptian mythology, fish, goddess, Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish, Johfra, myth, mythology, ocean, Osiris, Pisces, redemption, Richard Flanagan, symbolism, symbols, synthesis, water, wholeness, Zodiac | 27 Comments

Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Virgo

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Symbol Reader

Johfra Bosschart, Virgo I adore this image. It reminds me of a precious and delicate porcelain figurine that you hold delicately between your fingers, marveling at its fragile beauty. I like to spend a longer time looking at the Zodiac … Continue reading →

Posted in Johfra Bosschart | Tagged archetypes, Astraea, astrology, Atargatis, Christ, Dike, ear of corn, four Evangelists, grain, Hermes, initiation, isis, Osiris, priestesses, rituals, sacred prostitution, symbolism, symbols, tetramorph, Thoth, Virgin, Virgin archetype, Virgin Mary, Virgo | 46 Comments

The Myriad Forms of Meaning

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Symbol Reader

Image via http://thenewforty.areavoices.com/files/2012/01/spectrum.jpg The following is a beautiful excerpt from a book by Ray Grasse, The Waking Dream: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives. In mythological terms, the process of which the myriad forms of meaning unfold from their … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotations | Tagged archetypes, dismembered god, Divine, mysticism, myth, Osiris, ouroboros, Ray Grasse, Self-consciousness, Soul, Source, spirit, spirituality, symbolism, symbols, the Self, The Waking Dream, uroboros | 31 Comments

Posts in Pairs (1). Out of Many One.

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Symbol Reader

As an ever curious Gemini woman (with Mercury, the messenger of the gods and their intermediary, in conjunction with my Sun) I am always on the lookout for connections, links and associations. I have been paying attention to quite a … Continue reading →