Dream of an old room

A sense of melancholy, of having been here before, and I'm not sure if I want to stay or leave. Memories cling, like old leather and musty books. Old lace shawl draped, ready to wrap around my cold body. Photographs of silent, long suffering women, look out at me from cracked walls. I know this room. I went silently mad here.

Never Be Mine by Kate Bush

I want you as the dream , not the reality

Butterfly Maiden

 The Butterfly Maiden is a Hopi Native American Kachina, or spirit.  A fertility goddess of the Springtime, who ensures healthy and bountiful crops.  Psychologically she represents transformation and transition from one stage of life to another.  She helps us to escape from entrapment, or situations that impede growth..

Aphrodite's Mirror

Aphrodites Mirror
Made by Mystical Mayhem
for your Venus altar.

Reverie

"Morning.  The outer world of the so called real.  The escape into the unreal, world of beauty.  The two worlds - must they separate , or can they merge , flow into each other , fuse into a new world of heaven and earth?"

From 'The Inner World of Choice' by Frances G.Wickes

Photograph "Sensing Place" by Roy DeCarava

Perfume

Aromatic Allure

It was claimed that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt bathed several times a day . She was said to have loved the scent of rose , sandalwood and orange blossom . These oils were added to her bath , along with asses milk , while aromatic incenses burned day and night in her palace . She wore floral fragrances such as patchouli , jasmine and ylang ylang on her body , and she adorned her clothes with garlands of fresh flowers . When Cleopatra seduced the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar , she was delivered to him hidden within a rolled up carpet ,  which had been dowsed with her favourite essential oils . When the carpet was unrolled she landed at his feet . The visual and olfactory effect of this must have been highly intoxicating for the surprised Emperor.


Pic: Cleopatra by Alphonse Mucha

Lughnasadh

Lughnasadh full moon

August 1st is the Celtic Harvest Festival of Lughnasadh, or Lunasa.  
Traditional Irish Lughnasadh festivals were held on the nearest full moon, or the time of the first fruits. This year we are blessed to have this festival fall on the full corn moon in Aquarius.