“As this midwestern heat wave of a summer transpires, I am taking some time away from the heat and indoors, to think about my personal interests. I’ve experienced a lifetime curiosity with methods of divination used throughout time and across cultures. Consulting dreams, medicine people, I Ching, Tarot, and stars and constellations have given direction and assistance as ‘guides’ for people for eons. Around the world humans have always been fascinated to know what their future might hold, or which direction on a new path is best and most beneficial. I spend a lot of my gestation / creative musing with Tarot and Astrology, and somehow it fascinates me. Admittedly, I am grateful I feel safe and have the luxury of even indulging in musing when there is so much strife and suffering in the world.”
My Stone Mandala Of The Directions
I have come to believe in prayer, ceremonies, and teaching stories from myths and cultures around the world can help our ailing world. These wisdom teachings guide us, teach through stories and symbols, and identify archetypal stages we a go through in our lives. they can point to new doorways and possibilities.
Blessing My Deck At Sunset
These kind of stories began to come forward from my acrylic paintings of these last ten years. The study of Mandalas and my own use of Mandalas for creative insight opened new directions of my art. Responding to the beauty and my love of nature has been the foundation for my subject matter and my intention in watercolors, but I was taken in a whole new direction when I began working with Flora Aube in her process inviting divine feminine and what she termed the “Art of Allowing” © . These paintings showed me stories and eventually i realized the stories wanted to be heard, and offer insight for others. I present my Oracle deck.
Smudging The Deck In The Four Directions
