Intimacy and Astrological Symbolism in Collage
Astrology, relationship and collage all share a focus in bringing the separate into cohesion.
Made from the heart, from me to you.
Inspired by Bonnie Tyler’s heart-wrenching song, “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” When the ruler of the seventh house or Venus is configured to the lunar nodes, the points that track eclipses, relationships can take a haunting and disorienting turn. There is both hunger and distance.
Your Love is Like a Shadow on Me All of the Time
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A gift for a dear friend who was born a week before me.
Diptych. Venus exalts in Jupiter’s sign, Pisces. Here we find transcendental pleasure. Imaginative sensuality. Pisces is a water sign and is often associated with the feet. You can see a glimpse of Sagittarius, too.
jupiterian pleasures
During a New Moon in Scorpio ruled by Mars in Cancer, we find that vulnerability is survival. We must expose our insides as an offering in order to experience true vitality.
scorpio dark moon
mars retrograde in cancer and leo
Friction births connection. The Mars retrograde in Le0-Cancer asked for ferocious, shameless, courageous, vulnerability. To reach into ourselves in crisis and pull out our bleeding hearts as an offering, in the small chance someone may choose to hold our lesions tenderly, blood staining their t-shirt and all. To surrender inwards, to surrender into one another. To become intimate with vexation as a means to raw desire, nourishment and expression.
The pressure to stay positive and self-assured in the face of difficulty. People with an afflicted Sun or Jupiter in their natal charts can especially experience this hardship.
i can’t feel the sun
Life occurs in cycles, which all revolve around the Sun. This includes relational patterns and cycles that can recur many times before a change is made.
i’ve been here before
All relationships have power dynamics. Mars surrounds the themes of assertion, control, dominance, and heroism. Created during a Mars in Cancer transit, where Mars struggle with emotional discomfort and indirectness, this piece explores the angst of imbalanced intimacy.
mars remediation
Yearning, aching, longing. Falling into the thrill and disorientation of love. This is the fate of the lunar nodes configured to the relationship spheres.