Another Winter Ends
The birds are returning, the March winds are blowing in, and the winter is finally getting ready to leave the stage for the year. As rough as this one was in Colorado, it's still my favorite season.
Illustration by Trina Schart Hyman.
posted by jm at 9:53 PM
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Winter is putting forth one last effort here . . . it's snowing today & snow showers are in the forecast for the next several days! The seasonal change is inexorable though . . . kinda like death & taxes. Both of which are looming in my near future . . . :-(
You have chosen some wonderful pictures over here! Always enjoy the visuals, I do!! :-)
Thanks neith.
Ja, me too. I love winter.
I read a wonderful translation of the I Ching number 64 the other day. So different from any i've run across. Archaic.
-64
"Wei Chi symbolizes the purity of order and harmony.
Bare trees before the leaves come.
Crossing over to order and harmony.
The past is gone, the future yet to be."
(The characters) "depicts a tree with doubled branches at the top indicating that the tree is barren of flowers or leaves; it means 'not yet' or 'incomplete', in the sense of a tree in early spring that does not yet have flowers or leaves
Or, it symbolizes the pure, bare framework that supports the tree. is one of at least two possible drawings; the other is discussed in Hexagram 63. shows the ornate hair-pins of a married woman. It implies being 'uniform', 'equal to', 'the equal of', 'equal in length', 'well regulated', 'correct', 'respectful', and so on. It is related to a very old drawing of a woman arranging her hair pins that means 'consort' or 'wife'. The woman who wore these pins would be the only wife who was socially the equal (the mate) of her husband. With the added symbol for flowing water symbolizes crossing over to one's rightful place as an equal in marriage. More generally, it can be interpreted as 'crossing over to or attaining harmony'. Altogether, symbolizes the time or the circumstances before attaining harmony, where the crossing over is incomplete in the same sense that a tree is incomplete without flowers or foliage. Or, it symbolizes the purity of order and harmony, where there is nothing to attain."
This is very reminiscent of the tree women of Salish and Nordic myth.
sigh i got dropped had to walk out and reset the server. sorry to trouble you to delete that last one.
thanks.
Roger.
I love love love the I Ching. Will be back on this.
her smile captivates heart melting, the hand on the wall....
They have nothing and everything, Living Tao.
Would we choose it?
Something similar?
These faces ask me this question. It is large in my mind now.
I find it difficult to want to sell my work. There must be a center way.
I think in some way this is part of our dilemma.
Whoa, nellie!!!
That's exactly why we met and what we're doing. I've noticed things changing lately, according to this hexagram and the crossing. Things are going to be deleted naturally so we can consolidate and get out as artists. I know it's time.
Your Pluto/Sun/10th. My Pluto/Mars. Pluto moving to the 10th.
Part of it is staying separate within ourselves and still uniting for strength and power. I know it can be done. Petty arguments are to be avoided completely, and harmony is paramount, at all costs. Useless what-not can go.
They have nothing and everything, Living Tao.
Would we choose it?
Something similar?>
I've thought long and hard about this. The Taoists could take the world or leave it. They were in favor at court at times, then when they fell, they just returned to the woods.
They place no silly expectations on success, but see all experience as equal, and I agree with this.
So it doesn't matter if we sell our work. We simply want to. So we should.
The only obstruction is within, so I would like to undo it and go forth. I think we just need to make the decision and use our alliance to accomplish this.
NN in the 1st. Using our realtionships for our OWN ends. We have to do this withour fear and hesitation, or guilt and shame.
let's start here.
I find it difficult to want to sell my work
This might be the key. When we give up too much of a grasp on this and let it change form. I've always felt this way. I want to expose my work, but not through their system.
If you really don't want to sell, then there's no reason to, but if it's only a matter of changing the terms, then that can be done.
I won't compromise my art. So they will have to meet me.
The exchange of money is so complicated.
You must tell me when you have time about r's journey. This is so deep into the culture. I love how these superb photos are coming out gradually. I can absorb each one.
I think the reason for not selling now is the Pluto change going on. Let's be patient and see. If an artist completely knows her value apart from all praise or criticism, she's there. I'm not yet. But I want to be when I get fully into the market.
I've been thinking about this. If I'm not professional artist, then what? Will I be fulfilled?
The problem is, we were born with the talent for reasons. It's a personal mythic journey which has little to do with them. Only insofar as they help us achieve our artistic aims. And an audience can do that at times.
The exchange of money is so complicated.
And the point where i lose interest.
i have put our feelers for an agent I can live on very little. It is the interface that is suddenly distressing. In the past i disliked but put up with the commerce. Now i want out of that side. If i can.
Yes. I feel exactly the same way.
I Think it's time. There are horrors in the agent relationship, but look.
We know now about our 1st house. You really reminded me tonight. So I think if we own it, we can both get agents that will do what we want. Right now I could work, but I can't stand the idea of looking. This could help me.
I've been wasting my talent in the wrong places and now I want to get serious.
You have Saturn/Mars in the 7th and this is perfect. As long as you USE them, and I'm going to keep emphasizing this point to drive it home to myself.
Cutting the crap. The phony desire for approval that isn't coming anyway at this point. The coddling of others. All of it can be dispensed with in exchange for relationships that are going to serve us.
I am going to do this. I will cut out the nonsense and those who are wasting my time.
So.
The world is what it is. Anything can be marketed. With a newly aroused Sun by transit, your ego, self esteem will be shooting up and there is no reason to be paralyzed by the brutes out there. We have the goods. We should be proud and eager to show off. My Saturn return has made this clear. JUST SHOW IT OFF. I can cry later.
This is great.
I can't tell you, tseka, how much I sense what is ahead, The closing in on me of Pluto and the pressure to perform and self actualize. Batting everthing out of my way that is obstructing me. This is just the very very start and it's already heavy. If I don't act, it will act on me.
There will be a mounting urgency, but I will have to have relaxation techniques on hand.
When Uranus finishes the opposition to your Moon you should be freer. Then you can attract the right agent.
And this is the kicker. Jupiter is the ruler of your 10th. He is just about to get the square from Pluto. very much like my situation. 1st house. Your vital self life force. My way. NN.
Can there really be any doubt?
R lost his parents young, his father to violence. Secretly, he took care of his sister for years until discovered by authorities. Then lost her too. The trust of the heart was broken. Then Nepal. These Tibetans, unmasked, full of grace are a key. Feeling instead of thought only. Trust for the release was only in wilderness and only alone. Now, new ground. In many ways.
I am moved by the photos, find poetry in them, write these. He receives them. It seems to be part of the connection. Completing the circuit, eye to heart through words. His heart found a path of expression through an unusual ability to see, where words could not be found...images came.
Life is a process.
We have all the time in the world.
I have just read what you have written since i started this and find i am too tired to say more tonight.
The early get-up girl rises before dawn and finds tis late hour a bit blurred.
So here is to you dearone. until tomorrow.
What a sad story. And a deep man.
Goodnight, my dear friend. Tonight was a pleasure. So many tomorrows too.
FWIW, I thought I'd share my view on selling my art.
I generally do not sell my eggs. I usually give them away or donate them to a charity auction. If someone commissions me to do something specific, then I will accept money, but only then. This position is the result of many years of trying to put my finger on what was bothering me about the transaction involving money. Many people have attempted to persuade me to charge much more for my work, but it doesn't feel right. I think the beauty that each egg carries out of my workroom and into the world is the whole point of this. If someone walks into a room and their eye lights upon an eggvI made, maybe it will lift their spirits and capture their imagination and inspire them to do something beautiful in turn.
And so it goes, endlessly.
Joe! it's the classic struggle. for years i had to visualize accepting money for my work, actually taking th echeck in my hand. It was hard. finally i have come to this " i am a source of abundance in an abundant universe" The truth i see is that those who are paid the highest in our society have done little in this exchange of abundance. They are often the gate keepers for the Big Greedy. All MINE. So Artists somehow form a balance to this, redistribute. I see the value of demanding high prices, i know of no people more generous as a group than artists.
The difficulty is that the artists voice is often the shamanic voice and deep inside we know that commerce the money exchange is poisonous in it current form. It is something i think about a lot. Why i have given away medical care for years and volunteered as an Ombudsman for years. I never forget that i am a source of abundance.
And this is the kicker. Jupiter is the ruler of your 10th. He is just about to get the square from Pluto.
Ahh things to look forward to. And here i was thinking that Uranus square my MC with Jupiter transiting there was creating such a ruckus. There is always something.
The difficulty is that the artists voice is often the shamanic voice and deep inside we know that commerce the money exchange is poisonous in it current form.
Oh what truth.
This is my impossible dilemma, although it's worse trying to take money for astrology, which I don't now.
But I do need to survive and if I get another job, that's the end of my music. I've done that.
This is a huge isue. The whole game around money. I'd love to get to the bottom of it.
The other transits are creating a ruckus for sure, but this Pluto transit is something else.
Very often it's not the obvious movement of planets in transit but transits to rulerships scattered about the wheel. They all work together.
All of this is a prelude. Jupiter in Aries is an amazing placement in and of itself. Tremendous potential energy to draw upon. I think this dip now is the preparation as the Pisces weakness has its day. Good for meditation contemplation and absorption.
But Pluto square that Jupiter is another story. Not even a chapter in the old one.
The Pluto will be traveling to the source of your assertive power, and unleashing it for use in reaching your 10th house goals. This is a time to sort it out and decide what specific path you want to take.
You can see how it works. All the 10th house transits...you would think the career would be forging ahead, but it often happens this way. A slowing or stopping to reroute.
When Pluto comes to the Aries, the time to move ahead will come, as hard as it is to imagine now. The Pluto will go on to your libra stellium and your partnerships. An artist needs a dealer. It's a tight well-controlled market and the good ones can do it for you. The Internet is not the way to go for this. The art market is fascinating and I think you just need a higher strata in which to ply your trade. I'll talk to my rare book and art dealer(known masters) friend in NYC and see what he suggests.
But Jupiter, also ruling your Sag Sun is the bank. It won't be there for three years, but that's still close, yet gives you time to prepare.
Aries is getting exactly what you want. You got Jupiter there and a NN in the 1st for a reason.
After reading these comments, I decided to devote a post to this issue . . . I will warn gentle readers that with Mars being squared by Saturn/Neptune, it's a bit more forceful than usual. :-)
So much to think about here as always . . . thank you.
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