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The Mirror of Love by Aubrey Beardsley, 1895.

#aubrey beardsley #eros #love #vintage illustration #art nouveau #mirror #symbolism

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And if you find yourself unable to recognize your own uniqueness, and all the things that distinguish you, how are you supposed to fall in love discerning the uniqueness and authenticity of the presence of someone else…How will you then participate in the affairs of the rose and its mysticism, this blending and enhancing of the soul… V.B. Rosa Mistica by Francisco Laporta Valor.

#writing #love #rose #tantra #alchemy #mysticism #eros #soul #art

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Full moon/after the eclipses inner struggles and work, until all old and corrupted patterns that don't allow us to live fully vanish/transform, the well developed sense of self that still leaves room to altruism is pivotal.

Blessings come to you when things that used to bother you start to become more and more trivial. But first you must endure; first you must learn how to see underneath the surface; almost nothing is ever as it seems and layers hide inside other layers…sometimes you’re going to feel like you can’t go on, other times like you’re melting away or dissolving, strangely these are all good signs; old resistances will start to become obvious and then depart; a new sense of the self will emerge while you’ll get to see that the ‘elixir’, the solution or savior was never far away from you neither too near… Vera Bousiou The White Swan as the alchemical experience of the etheric body.

#psychoanalysis #alchemy #symbolism #esoterica #self transformation #wisdom #self #gnosis #awareness #inner work #knowledge #shadow work #life #consciousness

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Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck - Clotho et Lachesis (1926)

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dior's 'palladium' gown (1992)

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Ill Omen: Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Crossing the Moon, 1893 by Frances MacDonald MacNair (Scottish, 1874–1921)

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Cat Woman by Vera Bousiou, 2024.

Female myths, mysteries, rituals, and empowerment inspire my art as well as thinking a great deal. A timeless and empowered femininity as natural cycles and seasons touch the collective psyche. I'd say that "The White Goddess", by Robert Graves, or "Women's Mysteries" by Esther Harding, are two of the influences for this artwork, an impression of ancient Minoan Mysteries or those of holy Samothrace. Please support original art.

#mythology #art #symbolism #artwork #divine feminine #my art #imagination #ethereal #feline #goddess #cosmic egg #mystical art

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The opening page of Finnegans Wake illustrated by Paul Klee

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Byung-Chul Han, from an interview published in ArtReview

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The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը), dir. Sergei Parajanov (1969)

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Poster for Kate Bush's UK Tour in 1979

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1989 MYSTERIES FROM BEYOND EARTH

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Lady of the Moon, Unicorn and Roses by Vera Bousiou, 2024.

#art #symbolism #mysticism #artwork #watercolour art #contemporary art #romantic #divine feminine #greek artists #portrait #artists on tumblr #moon #roses #unicorn #spiritual art

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The Path, Reginald W. Machel, 1835.

#art #symbolism #mysticism #spirituality #consciousness #theosophy #reginald w machell #oversoul #isis #initiation #the path #monad

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Arthur Rackham - Undine at the Window (1915)

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SHŌGUN Chapter Two: Servants of Two Masters

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Koki Tsujimoto — Auspicious White Dragon (mineral pigments and japanese paper mounted on wood panel, 2020)