The Sacred
Standing Naked Before God (Know Thyself)
Carl Jung defined individuation as the process by which a person becomes a psychological individual, a separate indivisible unity or a whole. A lifelong process but most notable in the second half of life. No doubt the same line of thinking as the Alchemist’s in the Philosophers’ stone where in the process was disguised as turning base metal into gold. It begins with “know thyself”, the inscription on the ancient Greek Temple of Apollo at Delphi. We cannot say, think, or do anything that is not colored by our particular way of seeing the world. To connect to the divine, we must let go of our ego, acknowledge our imperfections, and confront our fears, desires, and shame (becoming naked to ourselves). Only then will we harness our inner gold.
Ambedo
A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details-briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
Your life is not a quest, or an opportunity, or a story to tell; it’s also an experience, to be lived for its own sake. It doesn’t have to mean anything other than what it is. A single moment can still stand on its own, as a morsel of existence.
-Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Venus with Seed of Life
The Seed of life contains 7 circles, that represent cycles, alluding to the 7 days of creation. Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, and fertility.
Hekate
The triple goddess Hekate stands at the crossroads, she is a guardian of the threshold between heaven, earth, and the underworld. She stands for wisdom to know what is worth fighting for, what darkness needs our light, and what kind of future we want to unlock.
Dea Ex Machina
The Goddess from the machine: A seemingly unsolvable problem is resolved by an intervention from the beyond.
Beyond The Veil
The unknown state of being after death; Originally a reference to the veil which in the Jewish Temple separated the main body of the Temple from the tabernacle. The veil is worn by women in both marriage and funeral ceremonies. In a less literal sense it is the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
Bless You
The IC XC hand sign commonly seen in paintings of Jesus is the gesture of blessing.
When the rest of Heaven was blue:
From the poem “Alone” by Edgar Allen Poe.