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The maiden and the wife

 

Gratitude for the Purple 2023 Planner

As we come to close the lunar cycle for the year 2023, allow me to show you my accomplished diary for 2023, it is also my way of saying goodbye to this wonderful purple 2023 planner which actually was the cover I didn't choose at all, but it was the one I received, so haha, I had to make do with it.

But it proved to be not just a beautiful accident to be in possession of this nicely crafted planner, it came to be one of those notebooks which allowed me to make a lot of wonderful memories and designs in its precious pages.

So, here in my post today, I want to show my designed diary entries from January to May and then August to September, and of course, October to December. Of course, you know where to find the June and July pages in this blog already, so I will not repost anymore.

Here, though I am shy to show you, please allow me to present a labor of love and inspiration, my 2023 diary <3

Visual Journal Entry #15

 

The Moon is the Timekeeper part 2

Today's visual journal is full of circles, representing cycles, which always have beginning, middle and end. As we all know, everything starts from a seed, may it be physical or emotional or psychological, possibly spiritual. Seed in the darkness, deep down, bottom moist darkness. That's where everything starts. And of course, once planted ~ be it in the rich earth, in the heart, in the soul, in the mind, in the psyche ~ the seed with all the elements coming together, or affinities if you may, will grow.

Growth is the physical manifestation of seed, it can take up form, like a plant, tree, the structure of the house, anything that exists, it has a form, it has a shape, it is with scope and limitation, thus it has edges and corners.

Then of course, growth is subject to time, in Greek myths, time is a male. He is a male god, called Chronos, he devours his own children, in mythological speak, it means all his children will die because all forms have to end. Before death, growth will have to go through many stages - birth, struggles of existence and then of course the decay, eventually there is death.

Death is not the ending. It is merely another stage in the cycle of existence.

Beyond death is formlessness. 

Then, in the formlessness, there will be a moment where the seed will be conceived again, thus beginning another cycle, another existence.

But of course, as I have touched upon the topic of Greek myth, there is Chronos as mentioned earlier, then there is Kairos, the other dimension of time. Chronos is the quantitative part of time while Kairos is the qualitative part of time. Kairos is the mystical, higher expression/dimension of time, the right moment, the opportune time, as they say in religious world the 'god-appointed time'.

So, in my visual journal we can see the sun ruling the upper (light) world and the moon in its varied stages. Sun and moon have been used since the ancient period to measure time ~ sun being male and moon, the female. The female moon, thought to be connected to the underworld, more attuned in the darkness, the timekeeper in the endless blackness. Further, in the visual journal, we can see the ship sailing through the ocean, a woman with flowers walking continuously, leaving us with just a glimpse of  her heavenly bouquet, which I love to call the bouquet of grief.

The woman's ink, quill, books, clock and dark flowers welcome us in the foreground of the visual journal, and then to the right bottom part, we can see an eight petaled flower.

The universe is huge and it is governed by so many ancient rules, natural laws and the undefinable magic and mystery that is beyond human knowledge. Let's have faith in living our lives.

A lovely new moon to all of us.

... and time goes on and on and on ...

New Moon 💜

The crazy dark chaotic 11th Lunar Month

In the middle of this indescribable splitting of reality as we know it, in this dark cycle of Virtue of Ending, I find some solace in these words ~

The future has an ancient heart

The sign of the future is here.

I know, I know that we all feel hopeless in the middle of the dark cloud of ending and decay and death, but believe and have faith that the future is coming.

Just look at the sky and feel your heartbeat deep within.

It has already arrived! The future has already arrived.

Moods #52

Saddest Quo | Pernice Brothers

                                                    There's a train wreck

                                                    Picking up survivors from a plane crash

Visual Journal Entry #14

 

Upside Down world as it was cut into two halves

In today's entry, we can find some mixing of sobering colors composing this rather angular visual journal. We can find shades of purple, coffee paper, gold, silver, black and some white ones on the rather little space. Finally, a small miniscule space for breathing and freedom of movement. The images are readily identifiable, we have purple roses, a butterfly, upside down jar of purple flower and a young barely adult girl, seemingly wearing a school uniform or study outfit with a small purse held between her timid hands. The entire spread was held together by a very commanding background, a snapshot of a portion of our galaxy with constellations, stars and dusts all rendered in gold. However, a big portion of the background is in black and dark purple, just like the endless darkness of the universe. In the foreground, framed is the upside down image of a globe, with some horizontal and vertical lines, that make up the latitude and longitude lines that cross the entire planet, although imaginary. Also, the middle part, supposed to be the equator is cut, therefore rendering the sphere into two halves: one half circle is on top and the other one, the bottom. Lastly, I invite you to look at the bottom part of the whole visual journal, in the middle bottom is a transparent jar containing a purple rose, growing from the green half circle. This green half circle is a kind of  upside-down horn, which I am comparing to the old astronomical symbol of constellation Taurus, the bull's horn, a place of infinite regeneration, growth and fertility. The purple rose is in state of infinite growth, as it was nourished by the fertile ground of bull's horn, even when the world is in such a mess, in incomprehensible state or in endless state of decay, destruction and death, there is a place beyond it, a place of infinite growth, healing, regeneration and in simple terms, life.