Tag Archives: symbolism

Three Thoughts for the Eclipse: Light Meets Life

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Karena A Karras, “The Bath” I.”The Zodiac & the Dying/Rising God While the daily rising and setting of the sun told the tale of Atum -Re’s deadly boat journey, the moon’s monthly crescendo and diminuendo portrayed the myth of Inanna’s death … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotations | Tagged alchemy, archetypes, astrology, cycles, eclipse, Moon, sun, symbolism, symbols, the moon, the sun, Time | 21 Comments

Esse Est Percipere (To Be Is to Perceive)

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Symbol Reader

1.“…he [William Blake] did everything he could to make his figures lose substance, to become transparent and indeterminate one from the other, to defy gravity, to be present but intangible, to glow without a definable surface, not to be reducible … Continue reading →

Posted in Painting | Tagged allegory, archetypes, art, esse est percipi, myth, painting, perception, symbolism, symbols, William Blake | 20 Comments

“Evening” by Reiner Maria Rilke in Two Translations

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Symbol Reader

I. EVENING Slowly now the evening changes his garments held for him by a rim of ancient trees; you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you, one sinking and one rising toward the sky. And you are left, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged archetypes, C.G. Jung, Edward Snow, Evening, poetry, Red Book, Reiner Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, stone, symbolism, symbols, translation | 30 Comments

Passionate Longing for Dialogue (1): Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Symbol Reader

I am starting a new series on my blog which will consist of conversations regarding books, films and potentially other soulful topics of interest. I am calling the series “Passionate Longing for Dialogue,” which is a quote from Martin Buber’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Soulful Dialogue | Tagged anima, archetypes, art, astrology, book, C.G. Jung, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, depth psychology, Haruki Murakami, individuation, interpretation, literature, novel, review, symbolism, symbols | 9 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

The River of Alchemical Mercury

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Symbol Reader

via: http://jhzero.deviantart.com/art/Yin-Yang-357915041 “You all know what mercury looks like-at room temperature it’s a silvery liquid that flows, it’s like a mirror. For the alchemists, and this is just a very short exercise in alchemical thinking, for the alchemists mercury was … Continue reading →

Posted in Mercurius, Quotations | Tagged alchemy, depth psychology, Mercurius, Mercury, mind, symbolism, symbols, Terence McKenna, yin yang | 27 Comments

Primal Knowledge

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“I suddenly realized that … everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotations | Tagged archetypes, cosmic mystery, glass beads game, Herman Hesse, symbolism, symbols | 21 Comments

Homage to the Unicorn

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Gustave Moreau, “The Unicorns” “He dwells in equivocal twilights; and he can stare the sun out of countenance…. Unicorn sings ravishing melodies for those who possess the inner ear of mystics and poets. When angered he echoes the Seven Thunders … Continue reading →

Posted in The Unicorn | Tagged alchemy, archetypes, astrology, Atlantis, Bible, Carl Jung, flood, Lion, Moon, Old Testament, phases of Venus, physiologus, psychology, reem, rimu, sun, symbolism, symbols, Unicorn, Venus, Virgin | 37 Comments

Life and Mind and Language

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“The incomparable feature of human language is that its magical community with things is immaterial and purely mental, and the symbol of this is sound. The Bible expresses this symbolic fact when it says that God breathes his breath into … Continue reading →