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asharaxofstarfall · 5 months
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text: “a feast for crows” grrm/ safia elhillo poetry/ “a feast for crows”grrm/ “a game of thrones” grrm/ “lolita”vladimir nabokov/ “a feast for crows” grrm/maya angelou, the complete collected poems
art: “the martyr of solway” by john everett millais/ “stitching the standard” edmund leighton/ “the kiss” by francesco hayez/“girl with a pomegranate” by william bouguereau/“the goldfinch” by carel fabritius/“portrait of a young woman” by frankfurt botticelli/“judith and holofernes” by valentin de holofernes/emma hart, lady hamilton, as circe
sansa stark, sandor clegane and petyr baelish
i promise, i will finally get around to posting that huge sansa/persephone/dolores meta post
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catdoingthelaundry · 5 months
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A web weave of some kind. On longing, on grief, on trying to move on
May Sarton, "Of Grief“, Selected Poems // julykings // bun0nthemoon // ell-hs // Maya Angelou, “Starvation” from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou // taohun // ylbrecht // Rebecca Sugar // Audrey Niffenegger, from ‘The Time Traveller's Wife’
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llovelymoonn · 10 months
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Can you do a webweave on hunger?
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maya angelou the complete collected poems of maya angelou: "starvation" (via @godsopenwound) \\ marie howe magdalene: poems: "the teacher" \\ c.k. williams poems 1963-1983: "with ignorance" \\ nikki giovanni \\ tim seibles mosaic \\ douglas kearney kronos: father of the year \\ anne carson \\ jane hirshfield the beauty: poems
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ladymonstrous · 2 years
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The Monstrous Lady: alone with her rage
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1. Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson | 2. Art by Putrid Hound | 3. Olga Orozco, from Engravings: Torn from Insomnia "To Destroy the Enemy," | 4. Marya Zaturenska, from The Collected Poems; "The Angel of the Solitary," | 5. Excerpts from my diary, from @inkedpoet | 6. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates | 7. Nikolay Punin, referring to Anna Akhmatova, from a diary entry featured in Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova | 8. Hamlet, Act I scene V by William Shakespeare | 9. Contender by Traci Brimhall | 10. Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poem of Anne Sexton; "Live," | 11. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | 12. Bertolt Brecht, from Poems 1913 - 1956 | 13. Jorge Luis Borges, tr. by Tony Barnstone, from Selected Poems; "The Other Tiger," | 14. Marguerite Duras, from the Lover. | 15. Iphigenia, from A Memory of Wind, trans by Rachel Swirsky | 16. At the Gates of Dis by Kim Jakobsson | 17. Ingeborg Bachmann, from In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems; Songs of Flight. | 18. Cassandra de Alba, from "A Barbie Drem House But All the Dolls Are Kitchen Knives" published in Underblong | 19. Tanaka Mhishi, Literary Sexts II | 20. Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children | 21. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath | 22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | 23. Fortesa Latifi, "Fingertips," | 24. Roland Barthes, from Mourning Diary | 25. Kelly Cherry, from Raising Venus; "Lady Macbeth on the Psych Ward," | 26. Margaret Atwood, from Dancing Girls: Stories; "Lives of the Poets," | 27. Ashley Mares, from "Psalm of Scarttered Ashes" published in Luna Luna | 28. Anna de Noailles, tr. Norman R. Saphiro, from Poems; "Dazzled, Precise," | 29. Cannibal Girls (1973) | 30. Maya Angelou | 31. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | 32. Plato, Protag..I 337 | 33. Fyodor Dosteyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 4: A Hymn and a Secret (1880)
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rabdoidal · 2 years
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Reflections of Edward Teach; the post mortem dissection of a heart bled open, found in 14 parts.
i. Meditation On The Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology Of Poetry, ‘Memory of Tlatelolco’ by Rosario Castellanos ii. Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron and Wine iii. Our Flag Means Death, S1E10 iv. Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals v. Our Flag Means Death, S1E9 vi. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov vii. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room viii. Jenny Slate, 4/4/2016. ix. Our Flag Means Death, S1E9 x. Marianne and Heloise, A portrait of a lady on fire, 2019. xi. Our Flag Means Death, S1E9 xii. Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted” xiii. Our Flag Means Death, S1E4 xiv. Maya Angelou, “Starvation” from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
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poppletonink · 6 months
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Rory Gilmore: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List
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1984 by George Orwell
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Stalking Shakespeare by Lee Durkee
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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the-feral-gremlin · 4 months
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??/ arrow 8x10// @/ryebreadgf// arrow 1x02 // ?? By mahmoud darwish// Starvation by Maya Angelou from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou// i have more souls than one: i see boats moving by Fernando Pessoa//??//1x??
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homomenhommes · 6 months
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …
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1926 – Curtis Harrington (d.2007) was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films, horror films, and episodic television. He is considered one of the forerunners of New Queer Cinema.
His memoir, Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood, was recently published by Drag City. The original manuscript was disinterred from a special collection in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and carefully edited by Lisa Janssen, a Chicago-based poet, archivist, and film buff.
For Harrington, the romance with movies began early. He was stirred as a child by the sight of Mr. Death wilting a bouquet of flowers with his breath in Death Takes a Holiday (1934).
Growing up in Beaumont, California, with parents who gave him leeway to pursue his creative interests, Harrington discovered a soul mate in Edgar Allan Poe, and began his film career at 14 with an abbreviated version of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The director plays both the death-haunted Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline.
Greatly influenced by Maya Deren, co-creator (with Alexander Hammid) of the trance classic Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), he completed a cycle of 16 mm shorts, several of which – Fragment of Seeking (1946), Picnic (1948), On the Edge (1949) – are now regarded as prime examples of West Coast experimental filmmaking. His friendship with Kenneth Anger, director of Scorpio Rising (1963) and author of the notorious bestseller Hollywood Babylon, fueled an appreciation for the mystical and provided occasion to participate, if only peripherally, in the Southern California occult explosion.
Although he enjoyed unfettered creative license during this period, the pressure to conform weighed heavily on the young filmmaker. The conservative postwar climate was an unlikely breeding ground for the deeply personal, highly stylized "film poems" created by Harrington and his contemporaries. His status as an outsider was no doubt intensified by his orientation as a gay man – a subject on which Harrington remains subdued throughout the memoir. "This seemed perfectly natural to me," Harrington writes of his teenage attractions. "It did not occur to me to attach any sense of guilt or shame to my activities." A screening of Fragment of Seeking and Anger’s Fireworks (1947) stunned an audience of Los Angeles intellectuals with its potently surreal evocations of homoerotic desire. "Everyone in the room was too shocked to say a word," Harrington recalls.
The true turning point in his career was the extraordinary Night Tide (1961), a gently haunting fable about a sailor (an uncharacteristically shy Dennis Hopper) who falls in love with a mermaid impersonator (Linda Lawson). Night Tide was distributed by Roger Corman, who in due course offered Harrington two directing assignments: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) and Queen of Blood (1966). Harrington was given the task of repurposing a couple of Russian science fiction films to which Corman had acquired the rights.
In the following years he went on to direct a series of B-movies in the horror genre TV series and Made-for-TV movies including The Killer Bees (1974).
At 75, he managed to summon the remainder of his creative vigor to make Usher (2002), a self-financed short film that brought his career full circle. "I went all the way back to the story that had haunted me so early in my life,"
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1730 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (d.1794), also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines. He wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812.
In Germay, in 1776, he was alleged to be homosexual and was accused of improper sexual behavior with young boys. Whether or not Steuben was actually intimate with other men is not entirely known, but the rumors compelled him to seek employment elsewhere.
On September 26, 1777, the Baron, his Italian greyhound, Azor (which he took with him everywhere), his young aide de camp Louis de Pontière, his military secretary Pierre Etienne Duponceau, and two other companions, reached Portsmouth, New Hampshire and by December 1, was extravagantly entertained in Boston. Congress was in York, Pennsylvania, after being ousted from Philadelphia by the British advance. By February 5, 1778, Steuben had offered to volunteer without pay (for the time), and by the 23rd, Steuben reported for duty to General George Washington at Valley Forge. He served as George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.
Two of the General's soldiers, William North and Ben Walker, were to von Steuben's liking. He legally adopted both men, and they lived together until the Baron's death, at which time they shared in his estate.
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The Lafayette Park Memorial.
Many places are named in his honor, including Steubenville, Ohio. His monument by Albert Jaegers in Washington, DC, across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park, is perhaps one of the most homoerotic sculptures in America. Make sure and pay a visit the next time you're in town. You will not regret it.
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1928 – Roddy McDowall (d.1998) was born in London on to a Scottish father and an Irish mother. His mother, who had herself aspired to be an actress, enrolled him in elocution lessons at the age of five; and at the age of ten he had his first major film role as the youngest son in Murder in the Family (1938). Over the next two years he appeared in a dozen British films, in parts large and small. McDowall's movie career was interrupted, however, by the German bombardment of London in World War II. Accompanied by his sister and his mother, he was one of many London children evacuated to places abroad.
As a result, he arrived in Hollywood in 1940, and the charming young English lad soon landed a major role as the youngest son in How Green Was My Valley (1941). The film made him a star at thirteen, and he appeared as an endearing boy in numerous Hollywood movies throughout the war years, most notably Lassie, Come Home (1943), with fellow English child star and lifelong friend Elizabeth Taylor, and My Friend Flicka (1943).
By his late teens, McDowall had outgrown the parts in which he had been most successful. Accordingly, he went to New York to study acting and to hone his skills in a wide variety of roles on the Broadway stage.
McDowall was praised for his performance as a gay character in Meyer Levin's Compulsion (1957), a fictionalised account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case; and he won a Tony award for best supporting actor as Tarquin in Jean Anouilh's The Fighting Cock (1960).
After a decade's absence, McDowall returned to Hollywood, and over the last four decades of his life he appeared in more than one hundred films, encompassing a wide range of genres from sophisticated adult comedy to children's fare, from horror to science fiction, usually as a character actor. He also made regular character appearances on TV in such series as the original Twilight Zone, The Carol Burnett Show, Fantasy Island and Quantum Leap.
His best known appearances include those in The Subterraneans (1960), Midnight Lace (1960), Cleopatra (1963), The Loved One (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968) and its various sequels, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), The Poseidon Adventure (1973), Funny Lady (1975), and Only the Lonely (1991). His last film role was the voice of Mr Soil, an ant, in A Bug's Life (1997).
Although McDowall never officially came out, the fact that he was gay was one of Hollywood's best known secrets. It is a tribute to his characteristic discretion and the respect with which "Hollywood's Best Friend" was regarded by his peers that his homosexuality was never really an issue or used against him in his six decades in the entertainment business.
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Roddy is offered a hot sausage by Tab Hunter
McDowall died of cancer at his home in Studio City, California, on October 3, 1998. At the time of his death, he held several elected posts in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was a generous benefactor of many film-related charities.
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1480 – The Spanish Inquisition is established as a court for the detection of heretics, although its true purpose remains somewhat obscure. But 1000-1600 people were charged with the crime of sodomy. During the 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, the total number of "heretics" burned at the stake totaled nearly 32,000.
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2001 – Paul Holm, the partner of Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham is presented with the folded American flag.
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coquette-club · 11 months
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Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry
The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning” Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life. Every poetic phrase, every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure-to-be-treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for / I believe enough to die for / That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise”(“Out of the huts of history’s shame / I rise / Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning”tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon / The day breaking for you. / Give birth again / To the dream.”). Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry also features her final long-form poems, including “A Brave and Startling Truth,” “Amazing Peace,” “His Day Is Done,” and the honest and endearing Mother: “I feared if I let you go You would leave me eternally. You smiled at my fears, saying I could not stay in your lap forever” This collection also includes the never-before-published poem “Amazement Awaits,” commissioned for the 2008 Olympic Games: “We are here at the portal of the world we had wished for At the lintel of the world we most need. We are here roaring and singing. We prove that we can not only make peace, we can bring it with us.” Timeless and prescient, this definitive compendium will warm the hearts of Maya Angelou’s most ardent admirers as it introduces new readers to the legendary poet, activist, and teacher—a phenomenal woman for the ages.
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madelineofusher · 8 months
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Maya Angelou, "To A Man" from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
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persephonediary · 1 year
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Lying, thinking,
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong,
That nobody
But nobody can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Maya Angelou, “Alone”, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
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tastemenow · 1 year
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˚ ༘♡⋆ book list! 。˚ ❀
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FICTION 。・:*:・゚☆
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
衛斯理系列: 藍血人 - 倪匡
1984 - George Orwell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Land of Stories - Chris Colfer
Danny, the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
POETRY COLLECTIONS 。・:*:・゚☆
Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe
Divisions Street - Helen Mort
Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath
猛虎集 - 徐志摩
回答 - 北島
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou
NON FICTION 。・:*:・゚☆
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now - Joshua Wong
Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back - Nathan Law
The Spirit Level - Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
How Democracies Die - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
人權論集 - 胡適
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blacklifescience · 1 year
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“Humans can regard the same animal as both a companion and an object, as is the case with hunting dogs or dogs bred for fighting” (Jean-Moore, Speciesism,  2013). 
Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House Inc., 1994)
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ao3feed-thor · 2 years
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Caged
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"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom." - Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems
Words: 77116, Chapters: 17/18, Language: English
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Original Characters, Frigga | Freyja (Marvel), Odin (Marvel), Sif (Marvel), Fandral (Marvel), Volstagg (Marvel), Hogun (Marvel)
Relationships: Loki (Marvel) & Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, lots of lore i had to make up bc the mcu underutilizes elves HARDCORE, references to mythology, references to the legend of Lorelei, listen, i know a character based on The Lorelei exists in the mcu already, but i didnt know that when i wrote this, So Bear With me, extra content warnings at the beginning of each chapter
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spookyabuki · 2 years
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—Maya Angelou, from The Complete Collected Poems
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moon-cycling · 2 years
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book club ~*
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These books are due and I have a little flu. I extended them two weeks and now on the night they needed to be returned to their HQ, crisis struck. So I am going to reflect a little on mine and then bring them back and pay my small fine. 
I had about a month with these books and thoroughly skimmed them all. I just had a big move to a new house and wanted some books to settle in with during the transition period. Poetry seemed like an avenue to feel and experience small stories quickly and really meditate on the feelings. The Feng Shui book was chosen because when I moved a friend knew some of the elements of Feng Shui and helped me put my bed in the ideal spot. The Subtle Energy Body looked too cool to not select. 
Maya Angelou’s Complete Collected Poems
‘Alone’ resonated with me. To me it highlights the fact that nobody can make it in life alone and that our souls need each other. This is a really nice sentiment to remember when doing spiritual work when the focus can be on you and yourself a lot of the time. Maya Angelou has such an incredible range of topics to read. 
What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?
I was in the poetry section and was drawn to the title of the book. Then when looking at the table of contents I saw there was an entire section that was just meditating on a specific object. The poet describes an oyster as ‘impenetrable and thuggy’ and a peeled orange as ‘scared and naked’. It has inspired me to look at objects more mindfully, as vision is maybe my most used and most favorite sense. There are dark themes weaved throughout the poetry as well, positioning death against this grounding practice of object observation. A true lesson in mindfulness and presence - written in such beautiful form!
Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home To Change Your Life
The authors present a method called ‘practical feng shui’ which combines different schools of thought. Oldest school of feng shui is from 618-907 AD
Traditional Tools of Feng Shui: Colors, Numbers, Animals, Symbols, Elements
Things to Consider in a Space: Color, Furniture, Artwork, Plants, Room Shape, Location
Feng Shui means “wind and water” or “natural surroundings”
Can use a compass to orient things in the home like how it has been done traditionally or you can use the front door as a starting point (like used in Black Hat Sect Tantric Tibetan Buddhism
Goal is to reach a balance between yin and yang. The ‘interaction’ between these ‘creates the changes that keep the world turning’. Think: seasons, passing of days, perception and energy around us
Yin = female, dark, passive, the earth, the moon, receptivity, darkness, cold, death
Yang = male, light, active, dragon, fierce, strong, hot, moving, living, heaven and the sun, life
Yin, Yang, and Chi are ‘knitted together’ by the ‘principle’ of the Tao in all things (the way or the path - seeking harmony and balance)
Focus: I will use the colors on the Ba Gua to reflect on what I want to bring into my life (mostly work & inner peace) maybe black, purple, and yellow! My room faces the West, so I will think about what is associated with that and what I keep by the window. My South Window is where red might go, and I like that it is associated with birds and summer. On my dresser on the North side is where I could burn black candles, keep water, or a tortoise lol. We have 7s in our address and the front of the house where the numbers are faces the West. Our back yard faces the East and has wood and lots of green. Yellow links heaven and earth, governs motherhood (makes sense). What can I put that is Red in the South? Everything in my room is pink... a shade of red 
The Subtle Energy Body
The pictures in this book were so beautiful to look at - all of the symbolism of energy and connection! And so much of the book was concepts I have read about since my ‘spiritual awakening’ in my youth but never really understood in a deep way. So it was really grounding to hear these things again (like gunas and auras) and feel it in a new way and actually feel like I can apply it to my life. This book I wish I could keep forever
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