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Shadow Before Equinox
1. “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out,...
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The Secret Life of Words: Desire
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...
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LADY, WEEPING AT THE CROSSROADS by W.H. Auden
“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...
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Passionate Longing for Dialogue (1): Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years...
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...
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“Evening” by Reiner Maria Rilke in Two Translations
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...
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Esse Est Percipere (To Be Is to Perceive)
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...
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Three Thoughts for the Eclipse: Light Meets Life
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...
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Black Blacker than Black
Illustration of a black angel found in Aurora consurgens Black: The History of a Color, by Michel Pastoureau is one of the most fascinating books I have read in recent months. There are moments in...
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Eros and Thanatos
I. The Way of the West “… each organism only lives through contact with other matter, assimilation, and contact with other life, which means assimilation of new vibrations, non-material. Each...
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The November Song of the Pleiades
2 November, All Soul’s Day is a universal day of judgement: “I believe this is the source of the Judgement of the Dead linked with the month of November, when the Pleiades are high in the night sky....
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Awe-Inspiring Sculptures: “Night” by Michelangelo
“Night” by Michelangelo was sculpted in white marble and put to rest on the tomb of Giuliano de Medici in San Lorenzo Church, Florence. Her attributes are an owl and a mask. I remember seeing the...
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“Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines” by Dylan Thomas
“Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no...
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On Genius (3): Angels, Demons and Cult of Relics
Frida Kahlo, “Memory of the Heart” As much as early Christians wanted to break ties with antiquity, aiming at redefining the concept of divine possession, their cult of angels and saints bore a...
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Neptune, Redemption and the Nature of Archetypes
Bassin de Neptune, Versailles “The longing for redemption is an ancient, strange and many-headed daimon, which dwells within even the most earthbound and prosaic of souls. Sometimes eloquent and...
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The Phoenix
Emily Balivet, “Mother Isis” 1.“When I comprehended my darkness, a truly magnificent night came over me and my dream plunged me into the depths of the millennia, and from it my phoenix ascended.” C.G....
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Symbols and Rites
1. “At the dawn of history, the whole world – animate and inanimate, natural and supernatural – was interpreted symbolically. Life, death and rebirth were in constant close proximity, and these...
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The Divine Furor of the Soul: On Marsilio Ficino
“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...
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The Original Madonna: Early Neolithic Goddess
“Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn’t even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry...
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A Thunderous Epiphany: How Symbols Are Created
“Symbols throw us across a spiritual abyss. When contemplating a sacred work of art, it may feel as if a great divide separated us from the Holy hidden in images. Then, our vision expands, and the...
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Peacock’s Cry of Soul’s Splendour
Image via http://chronoperates.deviantart.com/art/Art-Nouveau-Peacock-272202614 I.“A Sufi legend, likely of Persian origin, suggests that god created spirit in the form of a peacock. Shown its own...
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