Tag Archives: Soul

Peacock’s Cry of Soul’s Splendour

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Symbol Reader

I.“A Sufi legend, likely of Persian origin, suggests that god created spirit in the form of a peacock. Shown its own divine image in a mirror, the peacock was seized with awe and drops of sweat fell from which all … Continue reading →

Posted in The Peacock | Tagged alchemy, archetypes, Carl Gustav Jung, cauda pavonis, depth psychology, peacock, peacock's cry, peacock’s tail, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Venus, Wallace Stevens | 42 Comments

The Divine Furor of the Soul: On Marsilio Ficino

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“The soul is the greatest of all miracles in nature. All other things beneath God are always one single being, but the soul is all things together…Therefore it may rightly be called the centre of nature, the middle term of … Continue reading →

Posted in Genius, Marsilio Ficino, Psyche | Tagged alchemy, archetypes, depth psychology, Genius, Marsilio Ficino, Mercurius, psyche, Soul, spirit, symbolism, symbols | 23 Comments

Education on Beauty

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Georges de la Tour, “Education of the Virgin” “We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” Neil … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | Tagged C.G. Jung, colleges, Dane Rudhyar, depth psychology, Deresiewicz, education, elites, elitism, excellent sheep, imagination, individuation, Ivy League, Soul | 28 Comments

LADY, WEEPING AT THE CROSSROADS by W.H. Auden

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“Lady, weeping at the crossroads Would you meet your love In the twilight with his greyhounds, And the hawk on his glove? Bribe the birds then on the branches, Bribe them to be dumb, Stare the hot sun out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged archetypes, depth psychology, Lady Weeping at the Crossroads, lunar eclipse, poem, poetry, Soul, symbolism, symbols, W.H. Auden | 22 Comments

The Secret Life of Words: Desire

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Symbol Reader

1.“When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Psyche | Tagged archetypes, desire, etymology, language, Soul, star, symbolism, symbols | 17 Comments

Like a Night Bird

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Utagawa Hiroshige, “Small Horned Owl on a Maple Branch under Full Moon” “The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.” Hatuki Murakami, “Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotations | Tagged bird, Colourless, heart, literature, Murakami, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Tsukuru Tazaki | 10 Comments

The Private Self

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Symbol Reader

William Turner, “Choir of Salisbury Cathedral” “Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.” (To live well is to live concealed) Ovid An article on Virginia Woolf’s idea of privacy written by Joshua Rothman has caught my attention recently. The author quotes from … Continue reading →

Posted in Psyche | Tagged Mrs Dalloway, mysticism, privacy, private self, psychology, Saint Teresa of Avila, social media, Soul, The Interior Castle, Virginia Woolf | 33 Comments

The Secrets of the Odyssey (10): Return to Ithaca through the Cave of the Nymphs

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Venus the Morning Star (Venus Phosphorus – Light-Bringer) “When on the East the sheer bright star arose that tells of coming Dawn, the ship made landfall and came up islandward in the dim of night. Phorkys, the old sea baron, … Continue reading →

Posted in The Odyssey | Tagged archetypes literature, astrology, Athena, cave, Cave of Nymphs, creation, darkness, Greek mythology, Homer, honey, Ithaca, light, myth, noos, nostos, Odysseus, Odyssey, olive tree, Porphyry, rebirth, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Venus morning star | 11 Comments

Cultivating the Dark Core of Passion

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Psyche | Tagged culture, discipline, Dostoevsky, Japanese tea ceremony, Kafka, method, obsession, passion, psychology, reason, Seiza, Soul | 31 Comments

Symbolism of the Dove

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Symbol Reader

A. Andrew Gonzalez, “Unio Mystica” 1. “In the myths of Babylonia and Judaism, a dive circles the subsiding waters of the primal flood and returns with the olive branch, sign of renewal after inundation.” “The Book of Symbols” 2.“Be ye … Continue reading →