Earth Seed of Ether: Renewal

9.29.10

“Because men do not perfectly believe or imagine. The result is that arts are uncertain when they might be wholly certain.” Paracelsus 1495-1541 Dr. John Munford, “Magical Tattwas”.

The renewal comes from the shift beyond personal limits and the feeling of growing conflict over change. I find though that we often can’t see the direction of the change, or actually what it is, till it is upon us.

I often feel it ahead of time, but it is usually bigger and better than I expected. I love the idea that restlessness grows steadily in the rich soil of inertia. I have felt this inertia through all my pores and muscles.

Today we closed the gallery in our studio space. We need the privacy and sacred space of our studio more than the feeling of potential sales. 

An alcoholic artist came in today and insulted our work and we entered into a conversation of how hard it is to continue to work, with his remarks, his words, adding to the weight.

In the end we saw his aversion to his own work was worse for him, but we also realized that we are not here to be distracted by the diverse.

We claimed our right to be here just to live, and work, and on Wednesdays to have good friends stop by for conversation, not open for the curious, who have not come to be inspired and have an aversion to color, and the curve of light the intuitive affords.

Air Seed of Ether: Transformation

9.28.10

Up early, misty and magical on the river. I’m waiting for the central focus to appear within the layers of this morning.

I am wondering if magic still happens, or is it just something we read about?

“Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds.” Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard., Dr. John Munford, “Magical Tattwas”

This day has been so shifting and so many levelled creatively, that I am sure it was transforming and intentionally visually stimulating. 

Our son and his sweetheart were here at our studio all day and we shifted between food, photography, printing, the river, the tide, the toys, the books, and even a photography treasure hunt, where we had a list and each of us photographed, in the studio, our interpretation of that list. 

The differences were so fun and perspectively different. We stayed in this world all day and I did feel transformed by it.

Air seed of ether. Unlimiting our inspiration by play, conversation, and speculating on the magical.

Ether Seed of Water: Daring

9.27.10

The movement of this time calls for a deep realization of the full potential that is hidden or repressed within us. This call moves the very waters within us to potentize a remedy that will call the small to begin to shift our essence and rotate our cycles, till we are able to see what it is that we need to feel.

Life calls us forward to gain more freedom,stability, and nestling into Terra Firma. The daring formula of bringing our creative life into how we are with the earth, with the elements, with the very motion of our daily tasks.

Today instead of teaching our grandchildren art, we just did our art and they painted and colored with us. Spending more time with a piece of work, because we were.

Talking to their work, because we all knew it was alive. No longer showing them about art, but just doing it in their presence. Daring to let them see what is hidden in actually creating.

Life is natured by the presence of limitless space. Ether.

Air Seed of Earth: Squaring the Circle

9.26.10

To build airy castles in the soil of imagination is to have the courage to embrace the power of small and allow it room to enumerate its power.

If we cannot come into a time that seeks the power of small, we will then need large. Large always takes up more room than we have, more time than we know, and more space than what is granted by life.

Large has no patience for small but can only push life out of balance When we become a world that can once again believe in the power of the smallest of moments, things, and life, we can then have a grace of space, time, and power.

I have worked in small for many years, and have granted power to the smallest of gestures, colors, lines, numbers, and moments, and space. and have found I can move the whole world, galaxy, and universe within a moment of time’s imprintation.

This is an airy concept that has rooted deeply into the soil of my physical existence, and I know that this small is the only thing that is holding back the destruction of the large that so many look for, wait for, embrace, and pay tribute to in their lives.

In truth, the smaller the concept, the quicker the time, the more complex the intricacy, the freer the code, the more generous the exchange, the greater the distance, the less taught, the more intuitive, the greater the power to balance.

Water Seed of Water:Diplomacy

9.25.10

Taking a stronger dose of imagination, I rest into this day with my muse, my root child. I cannot clean, work, or figure. I can just flow into a diplomacy with my sweetest thoughts and feelings.


A diplomacy with water on a basis of full immersion that gives my life a new nature. I am surprised by the quick turns of this time.


A position of responsibility or force immediately takes a quick turn and becomes a new face, a letting go, a door opens, a dream moves forward with a change of air.


I can't even dispel the spell because it leaves. I am more okay than thought. I cannot freeze my nerve because it melts and folds into ease and comfort. I am the messenger to my soul and it waits for me. 


The diplomacy of this time is more interior at first and then flows into my exterior world. So in the middle of it all, I sit.


Robert and I went to the Common Ground Fair yesterday with our family and children, and right in the middle of it all I had to fold out a blanket, sit down and curl into a ball. It was a lovely grace. I let my body rest and muse, till I could  join in again.

Ether Seed of Air: Logos The Word

9.24.10

Sitting inside the early morning hours of the alchemy of this day. I take heed of the timing of this Aries full moon.

The night air cool, quick, and clear. The harvest has begun and the quick cut of the root has happened.

We are disconnected from our old consciousness, there are no exact aspects listed on the moon calendar for this day. How often does that happen? No wonder there is a feeling of disconnectedness and bafflement.

Allow it its room, so the change can be compassionate and the word be kind, recognizing of who we are. This is not a time of harsh judgment or direct blows to our feelings. 

Arouse no judgment to what is not yet understood, but instead sit in the ignorance and be deliciously baffled, because your boat sits still on the water and waits for the breath of a new wind, that speaks the word of a new sound, a word from which our root child emerges.

Grace becomes us, as our book "The Root Child and the Coming of Fairies" arrived under the Aries full moon, during the Fall Equinox. Susanna, the icon in the book of the Root Child has, in fact, an Aries Moon.

Ether Seed of Fire: Incubation

9.23.10

The full nature of the Equinox is felt in the air of this time, and the acceptance of the resonance of change is given room.


There is much in this time that fully enumerates the numbers as needed in the next level of our world. The making of a new presence in our lives is about to register deeply in a way that gives great relief.


Acceptance is the most fluid way of becoming resonate at this time and I am needing to sit deeper, but I feel more scattered at present. Pleasure is accompanied by the harvest of singular moments that cross over the threads of this time to create a pattern of change.


“Change is coming in which the flame is almost ready to reach across the abyss of space, on the back of the wind.” Dr. John Munford, “Magical Tattwas”.


There is an up-rooted feeling that makes one feel like a dug up potato with all its eyes now exposed to light.


“Root Child” book arrived today.

Earth Seed of Water: Boldness

9.22.10

How do I take myself into the boldness I need, for the colors of expression required? How do I render unto myself the measure of earth and water, that will allow the color palette of my soul to flourish a crop?

The Aqua Vita, contained within this full moon approaching, is balanced by the Fall Equinox held within it. A harvest where something rich is created out of nothing, and built upon a firm platform of solid ground that water runs through.

As family and friends gather this night, I take in a potential that will create a new venture that boldly infuses my life with flexibility, current, and deep connection with the root child of a whole new consciousness.

She is like a root crop that is now ready to be harvested and assimilated, as real in  my life.

Ether Seed of Ether: Rebirth, Space

9.21.10

Space being the very makeup of an answer, I evolve my very makeup to hear the wild threads of my nature. These threads awaken within me a new promise of feeling the larger vision I seek.

This is a constant weaving of thought, resonance, and language as it evokes an essence of being free to become employed completely by creativity. 

This is to be able to resonate a formula that gives to the weave of volume that emanates the link between the questions and the answer in one piece of work.

To emanate a body of work that holds the very structure of an eternal note of awareness.

To know, to see, to feel all the essence in one moment of realization.