Artistic Endeavors

[Shin'Ar]

Really?

Digital painting is "painting" done on a computer, I used Adobe Photoshop for this one, and my computer mouse.

There was no photo, no reference even, I created the entire painting completely from scratch from my mind.

I do get what you mean though, she has an energy, and actually a couple days ago I pondered who she might be, as I had a telepathic contact with an exotic dark-haired woman recently that I thought might have been a guide of someone I know, but now I'm not sure!

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I admit, I do have knowledge and understanding of how to put energy and consciousness in to artwork... but I did not have this knowledge when I created that painting, I just created it on a whim.

In some way you have put something very powerful into that painting. She takes her next step with great care and consideration. I think she is you. She is your divine feminine. I really think you need to spend some time with this picture in deep consideration.

[Unbound]

Interesting, recently I had been at a point where I've been trying to connect with a female guide, as I find pretty much all of mine to be more masculine. Now that I think of it, I think she is the woman who spoke to me! I remember the dark hair, kind of olive skin and a sultry, soft but powerful feminine voice. It was a very powerful feminine energy, confident and very aware.

What you say makes a lot of sense, I had never even considered it before, actually, I don't even normally show off that painting so interesting that I just so happen to post it here. Aha Considering the sudden flux of strange feelings and thoughts that came over me I certainly get the sense that this has been a most revealing event. Perhaps this is my chance to meet myself as a High Priestess.

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You can almost tell that her and I have the same eyes.

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Suddenly I think I understand my depression a lot more, she is so sad, I wonder why, thank you for pointing this out Shin'Ar.

[Shin'Ar]

Interesting, recently I had been at a point where I've been trying to connect with a female guide, as I find pretty much all of mine to be more masculine. Now that I think of it, I think she is the woman who spoke to me! I remember the dark hair, kind of olive skin and a sultry, soft but powerful feminine voice. It was a very powerful feminine energy, confident and very aware.

What you say makes a lot of sense, I had never even considered it before, actually, I don't even normally show off that painting so interesting that I just so happen to post it here. Aha Considering the sudden flux of strange feelings and thoughts that came over me I certainly get the sense that this has been a most revealing event. Perhaps this is my chance to meet myself as a High Priestess.

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You can almost tell that her and I have the same eyes.

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Suddenly I think I understand my depression a lot more, she is so sad, I wonder why, thank you for pointing this out Shin'Ar.

I don't sense depression as much as I do daring to take the next step with great consideration.

[Unbound]

Interesting that we percieve different feelings, maybe this says something about the way I identify with certain emotions and expressions. I do see what you mean though by the next step.

Gawd, I feel like I've been considering my next step since I was born. @_@

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Weird, maybe I've somehow mistaken my own "great consideration" for depression?

[Shin'Ar]

Interesting that we percieve different feelings, maybe this says something about the way I identify with certain emotions and expressions. I do see what you mean though by the next step.

Gawd, I feel like I've been considering my next step since I was born. @_@

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Weird, maybe I've somehow mistaken my own "great consideration" for depression?

I can't answer to your feelings, only you know how you feel. But I can say that what I sense from this painting is not sadness or depression. I sense great wisdom and intelligence and a keen discernment in direction and choice. This one knows the path will be crucial to her future, and she takes it with great caution. as though she is stepping onto a very narrow board to cross a very high place. That is what I sense.

And a very powerful consciousness.

[Unbound]

Aye, that is often how I feel on my own path, every step must be taken with a complete awareness of that step. Well I will certainly meditate on this deeper, do you get any sense as to why this is now being brought to my attention? The painting is a few years old at least.

I am incredibly curious about this, but I admit I'm not sure really what I am supposed to do. I suppose I will meditate with the picture and attempt to open up communication with the woman.

[Shin'Ar]

Many times events are not seen to culmination right away. Obviously that work was never quite finished and still has some event or purpose attached to it.

[Unbound]

Actually, quite literally the work was never finished, it is incomplete as I got bored of working on it. Perhaps I should go back and finish it... I seem to be very much in a state of "finishing what one starts".

[Unbound]

Sometimes I just make geometry.

I call this: The Awakened Eye

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One can only show the Gateway, but each is responsible for crossing the threshold themselves. This one was inspired by Shin'Ar.

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I think this one would be good for charging crystals...

[Shin'Ar]

Are you using a drafter's T to make these ET? I see a shape in the center that is just a little bit different than the rest, and yet it still fits into the design perfectly. It was obviously a deliberate attempt.

[Diana]

There is a lot of beautiful art here. I love to see it, so I hope to see more posted.

Haven't you ever had your characters come alive before? Happens to me all the time.

This happens to me when I write. At certain points, the characters write themselves, and the outline I wrote goes away. One of my friends recently had a dream with my latest characters in it, after she read my first draft.

[Unbound]

Nope, these are computer generated simply using a grid and making lines. I actually will sometimes just start a new one, make a circle, and spend hours just overlaying different kinds of geometry, and altering patterns and seeing how all the lines and shapes interact and bend with eachother.

I don't really "plan" the designs, I just took circles, and hexagrams and diamonds and started sticking em together based on intuitive feeling!

The last one I thought turned out cool cause as you say it is a little "off", or different, but it's a subtlety which actually adds to the design and I find gives it a sort of "spin". Kind of why I thought it'd be good for charging crystals, I bet it would generate a vortex.

[Shin'Ar]

Nope, these are computer generated simply using a grid and making lines. I actually will sometimes just start a new one, make a circle, and spend hours just overlaying different kinds of geometry, and altering patterns and seeing how all the lines and shapes interact and bend with eachother.

I don't really "plan" the designs, I just took circles, and hexagrams and diamonds and started sticking em together based on intuitive feeling!

The last one I thought turned out cool cause as you say it is a little "off", or different, but it's a subtlety which actually adds to the design and I find gives it a sort of "spin". Kind of why I thought it'd be good for charging crystals, I bet it would generate a vortex.

The amazing thing is how they fit together without any effort or forethought.

[Unbound]

Oh man, that is exactly why I love to make geometric designs! Geometry basically creates itselfs in to beautiful patterns, I have only to bring them in to play. It is an unfolding watching the design grows with my intuitive feelings, really fun to do!

[Brittany]

Some doodles I did at the doctor's office today...characters in my story.

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Some comic concept art, testing out various outfits and hairstyles.

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[Plenum]

those are just too awesome aktu. I have trouble drawing a triangle that has 3 points lol.

talents and skills are certainly not distributed equally by the Logos.

[Brittany]

There are plenty of artists I'm jealous of. I don't think any artist is ever able to be truly satisfied with their own art. There is always the drive to improve...there is no pinnacle of "perfect" art, unless you're lucky enough to be able to view every piece of art as the perfect expression of the soul that it is.

[Unbound]

Oh I know what you mean... I'm only just learning to accept my art for what it is!

[Meerie]

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[Shin'Ar]

I heard a radio show last night on my way home in the car. They were talking about the origins of color in the world of art, and the color purple has an amazing history.

I think it was Cleopatra that first discovered it and it was only used by the royals. It could only be acquired from a specific seashell in Lebanon. She also used it to tint the sails of her ships to show it off to all onlookers.

When she finally passed the secret of it on to the Roman Emperor it was so rare and beautiful that the Roman Emperor banned all from wearing that color so he could have it all to himself.

The rare shell became an exotic trade that made some who knew how to create the dye very rich selling it to the royals. It also resulted in the extinction of that mollusk and to this day there are actually hillsides in the Lebanon area that are literally made from the leftovers shells of the trade.

[Brittany]

Meerie, that pretty much sums it up nicely. Lol.

[Unbound]

This guy looks so happy! Aha

I call it Psychedelic Buddha.

[abstrktion]

This is "Spirit"


This is "Shaman"

[Brittany]

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One of my first attempts at "free drawing"...drawing spontaneously without any real technical work or pre-planning...simply letting my hand go as it wishes. I barely used the eraser at all, instead building up the lines in layers.

The inaccuracies in facial proportion are driving me crazy, but I have to admit it has a lot more "soul" than the technical cartoons I usually draw.

[abstrktion]

I'm still painting my way through the archetypes. Here's the latest:

Arcanum 0

[Unbound]

That is really cool! It makes me think of Lynn...

[Shin'Ar]

I'm still painting my way through the archetypes. Here's the latest:

Arcanum 0

Could you relate to us why you think this represents the survivor card?

Do you paint with intention or are you just letting your hands act free of forethought?

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One of my first attempts at "free drawing"...drawing spontaneously without any real technical work or pre-planning...simply letting my hand go as it wishes. I barely used the eraser at all, instead building up the lines in layers.

The inaccuracies in facial proportion are driving me crazy, but I have to admit it has a lot more "soul" than the technical cartoons I usually draw.

Do you know what you've done or is it just coincidence?

I highly doubt anything is coincidental when it comes to your connection.

[Brittany]

Do you know what you've done or is it just coincidence?

I highly doubt anything is coincidental when it comes to your connection.

You'd be surprised how much of what you would likely consider carefully planned has been COMPLETELY coincidental lol. After the "conjunctions" I've gone through in the past month or so, restoring my connections to my memories and my purpose here, I'm acting on a much more conscious scale, and there is little that I do which does not involve a highly calculated awareness. For most of my life I've simply been winging it, though, and things just fall into place. Imagine that.

I DID know what I was doing with this one. This picture was both completely spontaneous and carefully constructed by that which wished to be expressed. Wait until you see the project I'm currently working on. It's pretty epic in scale, but I'm hoping to have it finished by August.

[abstrktion]

@Shin'Ar,
I actually drew the figure as a few lines on a post-it note one day last spring and sort of instinctively labeled it skywalker...then laughed out loud at the Star Wars reference--now it feels like "star seed" or a Wanderer.
As I was painting it, I sort of "realized" it was Arcanum 0--which I may actually call "The Wanderer" in my own deck.

After I wrote the above, I decided to go take a look at the thread on The Choice and see what you had written--and it fits in some ways (your words are in italics):
This card symbolizes every wanderer and seeker who has left behind their old world of culture and familiarity to step into an unknown and unfolding mystical future.

This is done because all that we had previously come to know has reached the capacity of the human brain to comprehend.

It seems that your view looks at this from the perspective of this world. I think that concept could be expanded: My Wanderer is one who has reached the capacity of what s/he could learn without incarnating. So s/he leaves behind the capacities s/he has attained and descends into matter, naked, his/her understanding veiled, etc. In a way, this is "foolish" because there is the chance for loss as well as great gain (remember the Wanderers in Book IV who actually switched polarity on Venus).

And the new will be beyond our ability to understand or absorb. Does the consciousness that had only known the being of second density as some lower creature enter into the third density with any possible means of knowing what intimate sex would be like? Or what experiencing a love for various tastes of many different food types and concoctions?

Or can one of another density understand what it is to feel oneself separate from all other beings and from the Creator? To know fear, hunger, loss, etc.? The path of incarnation is full of dangers, but to remain without incarnation would be to stagnate, never to expand or grow. It is a risk we all felt worth taking--or we wouldn't be here.

This archetype is the field of consciousness evolving into its higher state, becoming its higher being, filled to the brim with what can be taken from this density, and vibrating into a new density which begins completely free and void of all need to choose direction or to polarize or orient. it begins in a new field with billions of new fields with which to mate and share, as an empty chalice/grail ready to be refilled.

I like the grail imagery and the mystery tradition behind it.

On this journey to come all is new and direction and choice will begin anew. New choices and directions await, but they begin from a perspective of complete and utter ignorance of what is to come.


This is the state of the consciousness as it enters from second into third as well. hense why this card is used to be both the first card as well as the last.

It suggests Infinity and Mystery.

Now to the particular images...
1 - I didn't really consciously or deliberately put anything anywhere. Like I said, this started from a post-it scribble. Then I was going to put the whole thing in a circle, but drew the figure too big.
2 - I faced the figure to his own right--again, without intention.
3 - I deliberately added the star -like shape near the face--s/he looks up with faith that everything will work out.
4 - There is a large "world" and a small "world"--the macrocosm and the microcosm. He turns his back on the macrocosm but remains in touch with both.
5 - The figure isn't clearly human; it is humanoid--I wanted to imply the soul without a specifically human cloaking and it looked vaguely "alien" as depicted in popular iconography.

For me, since I'm trying to strip back the archetypes rather than build them up, the most important aspects of this card would be
1) Faith (the inner knowing that helps us remember the Divine)
2) Leaving the known for the unknown (notice that the figure looks up rather than down where s/he is walking--a good way to trip in one sense, but the figure knows that true knowledge comes from "above", so to speak)
3) Turning from the macrocosm to the microcosm.


If anyone can read anything else into the image, I'd love to hear it.

[Ruth]

I don't see the figure as standing, but rather as hovering or floating. And it appears to me that the figure's head is turned toward it's own left side, or toward the macrocossm.

It also appears to me that the figure is drawing energy from the microcosm and pouring it out into the macrocosm, and that this energy flow is helping the red energy to fall away and be replaced by green.

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My first attempt at acrylics. I was meditating on the best way to help a troubled tree on my property. This is the result. Sorry it's a bit fuzzy. Took the pic with my phone.