portal for creative expression
I wanted to transform my sadness and madness into joy and playfulness. Letting myself explore this was very therapeutic for me and the feelings of deep uncertainty have felt very uprooting so getting back into my body and working with my hands has given me some grounding.
The famous critic Jerry Saltz has expressed his fears that whole sectors of the art industry, in particular the ones composed of low-income artists, gallerists, and writers, might simply be wiped out. Yet, creative professionals are finding new ways to show and display their talents, and this time, it is women who are primarily doing the innovating.
I continuously reflected about the separation from my family and culture, and the idea of not living together—dying apart from each other—they in Spain and me in the States, became central to my work. Instead of putting paint on the canvas, one day I began to cover my body with it.
The duality of the Full Moon expresses itself through the axis of Aries and Libra: desires and needs of the self, and the need to negotiate our social reality with others.
Jupiter, the Great Benefic, conjunct Pluto brings opportunity to align with the highest calling, attuned to the idealistic, selfless expressions of Plutonian energies. Pluto’s immense powers are best expressed as used for the greater good, and not the egotistical self serving results. Keep that in mind, and let the principle of the common good guide your actions.
While the masculine charges forward with focused, positive, brilliant sun-light bright energy, the feminine knows how to die and rebirth. We’re all being asked to stop and breath.
A famous geneticist once said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” . Turns out that includes medicine and public health. But it includes a lot more. We are all living through a half dozen Darwinian processes we can see in action, not just time-lapse CGI animations.
It is a call to consciously face the changing reality, and act, aware of our collective fate represented by the North Node in the sign of Cancer.