Tag Archives: symbolism

Heart Sutra For the Balsamic Moon

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Symbol Reader

Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come … Continue reading →

Posted in The Balsamic Moon | Tagged astrology, balsamic moon, cycles of nature, Dana Gerhardt, Ecclesiastes, gestation, Grimm brothers, growth, hair symbolism, individuation, lunation, lunation phases, moon cycles, Rapunzel, Rudhyar, Soul, spirituality, symbolism, the feminine, the heart sutra, transition | 36 Comments

Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Taurus

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Symbol Reader

Posted in Johfra Bosschart | Tagged archetypes, art, Buddha, Freud, Johfra Bosschart, Krishnamurti, libido, Mars, myth, mythology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, spirituality, spring, symbolism, symbols, Taurus, The Tempest, Venus, Zodiac | 48 Comments

The Crossroads of Time

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Symbol Reader

The Selkie, via here The song featured below captured my mood today with the dark skies and decisively non-Spring weather. Loreena McKennitt’s voice just wraps around me and carries me far away. She was born in Canada but her music … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archetypes, Celtic mythology, Celts, impossible love, Irish folklore, Irish myth, Loreena McKennitt, mythology, Neil Jordan, Ondine, selkie, spirituality, symbolism, symbols, the sea | 18 Comments

The Fountain or Death as the Road to Awe

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Symbol Reader

The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky is by far the most powerful symbolic movie I have seen in the last few years. Watching it is always like being transported into another reality; the music, the powerful images and the three interwoven … Continue reading →

Posted in The Fountain | Tagged archetypes, Aronofsky, C.G. Jung, Cirlot, death, film archetypes, immortality, life, Lord of the Rings, Mayan mythology, myth, spirituality, symbolism, symbolism in film, symbols, the Bible, the Fountain, the ring, Tree of Knowledge, Tree of Life, Xibalba | 39 Comments

Symbolism of the Forest

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Symbol Reader

In the middle of our walk of life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Dante, The Divine Comedy Foggy Forest on Emei Shan, via http://tryse.net/blog/2009/08/ It seemed to him that he had … Continue reading →

Posted in The Forest | Tagged archetypes, Baudelaire, C.G. Jung, depth psychology, forest, literature, Lord of the Rings, mysticism, poetry, spirituality, Swedenborg, symbolism, symbols, the law of correspondence | 37 Comments

The Eternal Charm of the Feminine

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Symbol Reader

Spirituality and sexuality are not your qualities, not things which ye possess and contain. But they possess and contain you; for they are powerful … manifestations of the gods, and are, therefore, things which reach beyond you, existing in themselves. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anima, archetypes, art, astrology, Blonde, C.G. Jung, Carl Jung, feminism, goddess, Gustave Moreau, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, mythology, symbolism, symbols, the eternal feminine | 26 Comments

Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Aries

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Symbol Reader

I am beginning my symbolic journey through the twelve Zodiac signs as depicted by Johfra Bosschart. At the beginning of Spring I am contemplating the Aries painting. The twelve Zodiac paintings by Johfra are contemplative symbols, showing the highest, most … Continue reading →