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The Wild Abandon of the Vine Month
“Summer,” terracotta via http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/207350?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=pin&utm_campaign=summer 1.“I know a bank where the wild thyme...
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On the Birth of Aphrodite
Gustave Moreau, “The Birth of Venus” 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...
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Two Shimmering Thoughts by Jung on His Birthday
1.“The unconscious can be reached and expressed only by symbols, and for this reason the process of individuation can never do without the symbol.” Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Works Volume 13,...
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Rusalki: the Slavic Nymphs
Wilhelm Kotarbinski, “Water Nymph” “She shook the bright drops from her hair And gazed upon the anchorite; To look upon her form so fair The good monk trembled with affright. And he beheld her from...
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To Apollo: The Averter of Evil, the Bringer of Harmony (part 1)
Apollo of Mantuahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_of_Mantua 1.“I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself, and knows it is divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all...
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Icy Lechery: Art by Tamara de Lempicka
Self Portrait “Was it true that, according to her final wishes, the ashes of the Polish-Russian artist Tamara de Lempicka were dropped from a helicopter by her daughter Kizette into the crater of the...
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Asclepius: Earth-Walking Healer, Son of Apollo
“Coronis was pregnant by Apollo when she found herself attracted to a stranger. He came from Arcadia, and his name was Ischys. A white crow watched over her. Apollo had told the bird to guard the woman...
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The Magnificent Imperia of Constance
She is splendid, imposing, imperial. 9 metres high, she slowly revolves round her axis, revealing all the facets of her provocative ensemble. In her left palm sits a naked minuscule pope, in her right...
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Ariadne Awakens
Giorgio de Chirico, “The Awakening of Ariadne” “Enter the turret of your love, and lie close in the arms of the sea; let in new suns that beat and echo in the mind like sounds risen from sunken cities...
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“From love’s first fever to her plague” by Dylan Thomas: A Study of...
“From love’s first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From the unfolding to the scissored caul, The time for breast and the green apron age When no mouth...
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Last Worshippers of Artemis: Cats Walking the Ruins of Ephesus
The lion mosaic in residential unit 3 in terrace house 2, Ephesus “But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.” “…when the moon gets up...
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The Blessings of Darkness and Light: Tribute to Khalil Gibran
I.“Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.” “The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you.” “Love...
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David Bowie’s Blackstar
The video to David Bowie’s “Blackstar” overpowered me immediately when it was released on 19 November last year. It is a visual poem and a symbolic feast. Despite the iconic yellow smiley face flashed...
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Black Holes: A Silent, Secret Essence
Rings of X-ray light centered on V404 Cygni, a binary system containing an erupting black hole (dot at center), via...
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Shakespeare and Goethe on Love: from Despair to Hope
Werther and Lotte “She had a wildness in her eyes and into it I plunged.” Goethe, “Sorrows of Young Werther” In January 1778 Christel von Lassberg drowned herself in the river Ilm, the reason most...
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The Black Madonna of the Darker than Dark Forest
The place closest to my heart in the whole of Switzerland is the Monastery of Einsiedeln. “Einsiedeln” is a German word for “hermitage.” Surrounded by a dark, mysterious forest, situated near a scenic...
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Like the Rainbow on the Waterfall: the Mystical Aura of Consumption
John William Waterhouse, “Sleep and His Half Brother Death,” painted after both younger brothers of the painter died of tuberculosis While the fourteenth century was ravaged by the Black Death, the...
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Jung on Alchemy (6): Sol and Sulphur – the Fiery Ferment of the Soul’s Hidden...
“As in the hand a sulfur match flares white and sends out flicking tongues on every side before it bursts into flame –: in that ring of crowded onlookers, hot, eager, and precise her round dance begins...
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Symbolism of the Lighthouse
Henry Farrer, Lighthouse, http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/382738 The world’s first lighthouse, the Pharos, was erected in the ancient city of Alexandria. One of the Seven Wonders of the...
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The Alchemical Salt and Its Taste of Infinitude
I.“Thus the fire began to work upon the air and brought forth Sulphur. Then the air began to work upon the water and brought forth Mercurius. The water began to work upon the earth and brought forth...
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