Illuminara

I spent the day in a trance, drawing babies and angels. I filmed it and put this together. The world seems so strange at times, but let’s just love the new babies being born (they see more than we do) and it will all come out right.

This is a recent Spirit Painting I did and loved doing. The feeling of gentleness and impending magic was all around me during this painting.  I felt the presence of loved ones, guides and an angelic softness all the while. There is also the expectation of something so wondrous about to unfold, yet with such [...]

This is a detail from the same painting as yesterday’s post, this one focusing on youth and fashion, and “looking to the past” before making choices. In a society such as ours where youth is revered and elderly people are largely shunted away or ignored, you realize we lose so much information that would help [...]

Dreamed of a pool in an interior space, right on the shore. An enormous surprise wave came, followed by another, with the sea crashing into the pool area. The second wave became a wall of water, and stayed that way (a clear wall made of water). Other waves came and went. Water walls rose and [...]

Automatic drawing, drawing in a trance-like stream 0f consciousness, is fun and surprising. My sketchbooks are full of such drawing meditations. You don’t know who will come visit you on the paper.  I go with the feeling, the flow of the ink. Then I get to know these drawn characters, and myself, a little better.

She uses her magical prowess, all her wiles (her intelligence and beauty) to weaken and seduce the Hero.  The Temptress Archetype is willing to manipulate anyone and anything in order to get what she wants. (Think of Fata Morgana, also known as Morgan Le Fay, and King Arthur).  She has her target, perhaps he is [...]

Being aware of how we feel in space at any given time helps us to connect us to our intuition, our inner knowing. How do your feet feel on the ground? How does it feel if you raise your hand in the air, and keep it there for a few moments? There is a lot [...]

Some dreams just seem like past life experiences. About 2 weeks ago I had the clearest dream of my sister, but she looked not at all like she does in “real life”, now. In the dream, she was very solidly built and sturdy, with a perfect hair style which was some sort of braid in [...]

In graduate school, my thesis was on archetypes. I created several for the purpose of painting human emotional activity. I made some up, each representing an aspect of human focus and traits. I made some out of Sculpy and painted them in all kinds of interactions together. I was playing with the symbols about ourselves [...]

Negative vibes. When you get a bad feeling. When, instead of feeling a sense of well-being, comfort and/or joy and elation with life, you get gripped up in the stomach, feel unsure, and are likely to stop breathing deeply. This can happen in a blink. What is happening to give you this awful, uncomfortable feeling? [...]