Tag: transitions

Quote of the Day – August 8 2012

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,’ she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.’

Lancelot smiled bitterly. ‘Perhaps a religion which demands that every man must work though lifetime after lifetime for his own salvation is too much for mankind. They want not to wait for God’s justice but to see it now. And that is the lure which this new breed of priests has promised them.’

Morgaine knew that he spoke truth, and bowed her head in anguish. ‘And since their view of a God is what shapes their reality, so it shall be–the Goddess was real while mankind still paid homage to her, and created her form for themselves. Now they will make for themselves the kind of God they think they want–the kind of God they deserve, perhaps.’

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley

 

I love it when art and study comes together. As I was working on this picture I was deep in a conversation with a friend of mine about different aspects of the triple goddess figure that shows up among other places in Wiccan lore, in Greek and Roman mythology (The Three Graces, the three Fates and the three Furies (or Kindly Ones), in hebraic mythology (the three wives of Adam), Arthurian legend, Celtic mythology and countless others we find examples of the Crone, the Maiden and the Mother) representing three different forms of wisdom, giving and understanding. The picture was kind of synching with the conversation first in terms of three layers of form and fire in the centre, three layers of the face that blended into the triple figure and then the trees and the centre forming its own triplicity in one. It was a nice synching of art and conversation.
Blessings, G

 

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Spirit by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – June 21 2012

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

My son when he was quite young would tell us about waking up before he was born. He seemed to think he was in some kind of control room where he was given lots of options. “I chose you guys and I chose red hair and I chose my grandparents and all of these other things including being a boy and then I was born and I looked down and said ‘Hey, I’m a boy!

 

He seemed to intuitive grasp that we choose on some level the circumstances behind our lives to come including it seems to me when we are born. More specifically  we’ve chosen to be alive during this period of upheavals both political, geographical, spiritual and almost every other way. Even if you don’t subscribe to it being a transition of ages It seems that when the dust settles our lives will look very different.

 

Still as old Gandalf tells Frodo, since this is the hand we’ve either dealt ourselves or that has been dealt us (If you subscribe to the idea of Karma than this period by its very nature gives us the ability to balance out quite a bit of stuff). Is it more difficult to be alive now than other periods? I guess that would depend upon your definition of difficult. I can’t see being in Europe doing the time of the Black Plague to be comfortable or born into an oppressed society (of which history has no shortage of). Chances are if you’re reading these words it means you have both access to technology and one would assume time that you can spend not either finding food or shelter or finding a way to gain financial access to the same so that takes care of most of Maslow’s hierarchy right there.

 

Still it seems to me that we are living up to the old curse of living during interesting times for sure. All we can do is navigate our personal waters in the way that works best for each of us.
Blessings, G

 

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and  Some People Just Have Closets by G A Rosenberg

Scattered Eyes Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Transitions

In life as in story
chapters begin and end
a thought or adventure nears
either a transition point
or a moment of tension,
a cliffhanger that drags us along
to the start of something new
It’s amazing how troubled we get
at these transitions
Anxiety mixes with excitement about what comes next
grief over what’s left behind
yet looked at from a distance
it’s all one book
complete before time began…
In the long run
perhaps all we can do
is make our story a memorable one,
an enjoyable one,
a fulfilling one whatever that may mean
for each of us