Happiness is not merely a life lived by accumulating moments of pleasure. On the contrary, happiness is a long lasting enduring enjoyment of life, it is being in love with living. It is your reward for achieving a good character and personal rational values in life. Happiness can be particularly annoying to one who is [...]
ABOUT The Sphinx uses every strategy of seduction she can devise, offering herself, and therefore him, the promise of pleasure and freedom. Man battles with his hunger and desire almost succumbing to her and pulling himself away at the nth moment. She becomes frustrated and slowly enraged with him because he does not act on [...]
ABOUT “Well my dear, what words are here, you speak in wisdom true and clear. Now here’s a fact to test your fears. I was you in yester-year! Youth and old age look so different from outside eyes, but they are much more similar than you realize.” Old age is the future of Youth and [...]
ABOUT TOOTH Toothy Grin: Cheeky and Rebellious Instigator, “No one can stop me!” The Accelerator. Affirms all her WANTS, DESIRES, and RESENTMENTS, Sympathizes with her self pity, encourages her impulses, supports her DREAMS OF POWER. Ego booster. Temptation NAIL Hard As Nails: Rebuke and Discipline Deterrant, “Fools rush in.” The Brake. Dissaproves all her WANTS, [...]
ABOUT Unfulfilled wishes can make demons of us. The Imp represents all our unfulfilled desires and needs. It’s wide eyes and fangs represent its predatory nature and The Imp’s scales show it’s relation to serpents and dragons. This armor represent The Imp’s insulation against tenderness and it’s inability to change. With one eye open at [...]
ABOUT Night & Day encompass all human experience. The Day brings warmth, light and consciousness while the mysterious Night nurtures and restores through the subconscious. The evidence of their bond can be found in every human being.
ABOUT The Poet experiences life intensely through the senses. His mission is to seek truth and celebrate the connectedness of the universe. Through observation of the world, he bears witness and gives voice to what he observes, feels, and knows. The process of writing his observations is an exploration to discover order, identity, and the [...]
ABOUT Womb warmed world nurtures you. Heart beat song comforts you. Blinking at the bright light, Ever developing insight, Growing daily inside, Bouncing within a tummy ride, Foetal images on screen, Feeling everywhere mummy’s been, Living her days, Learning her ways, Loving her laugh, Soul’s epitaph.
ABOUT Nature, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child, The feeblest or the waywardest, – Her admonition mild In forest and the hill By traveller is heard, Restraining rampant squirrel Or too impetuous bird. How fair her conversation, A summer afternoon, – Her household, her assembly; And when the sun goes down Her voice among [...]
ABOUT I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness In souls, as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, express Grief for [...]
ABOUT A universal symbol of the sun, mystical rebirth, resurrection and immortality, this legendary red “fire bird” was believed to die in its self-made flames periodically, then rise again out of its own ashes. The Phoenix symbolizes the destruction and creation of new forms of matter along the way to the ultimate transformation.
ABOUT Psychic and the intuitive, with the ability to perceive subtle movement defines the Lizard. It brings luck and evokes the dream-state; dreams contain some of the subtlest perceptions of the mind of which we may not be conscious. The Lizard helps us to awaken that ability for objective detachment so that it can occur [...]
ABOUT Still the mind, allowing total comprehension of a vast universe. The Tree will shelter you, give you strength and inspire growth and rebirth. From the heights of the heavens to the depths deeper than the earthly realm, the Tree is all-encompassing and brings fortune and knowledge to those who seek its comforts.
ABOUT The shaman gains knowledge and the power to heal and create by accessing the spirit world.
ABOUT Water is one of the oldest and most revered archetypal symbols in existence. It is primarily portrayed as a feminine force that represents birth, rebirth, and the subconscious. Every human beings first rite of passage begins through the living waters of the womb; therefore, Water’s essential nature unites us all from the day we [...]
ABOUT The Universe comprises everything we perceive to physically exist, the entirety of space and time, as well as all forms of matter and energy.
ABOUT Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. – Friedrich Nietzsche
ABOUT It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky… a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. ~Victor Hugo
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. – William Shakespeare
DATE JOINED August 2009 ABOUT Logic concerns the structure of statements and arguments, in formal systems of inference and natural human language.
ABOUT The Guide provides necessary knowledge for survival when you need to be carried through the uncharted and unknown. The two cornucopia represent bountiful providence (because the guide always knows the way) and the rainbow represents the full release of emotions.
ABOUT When the frog jumps into your life it may indicate now is a time to find opportunities in transition. We see animal symbolism of transition with the frog in its unique growth cycle. The frog undergoes incredible transformations to reach the destination of full adulthood, and so do we as humans.
ABOUT The agent of death personified, usually represented as a man or a skeleton carrying a scythe. Archedream represents the idea of death as a clownish, laughing skeleton. He makes fun and mocks, because even if you slip his grasp, he knows in the end, he always wins.
ABOUT Fire is consuming, clinging, and captivating. It is an unstoppable force that cleanses and destroys all at once. This archetype is considered the primary agent of change in the world, be it for better or worse. SHOWS Deep Blue Rise of Collaboration FOUNDING MEMBERS Jacquelynn Tichenor CAST Patrice Caron (current) Jacqui Tichenor (current) Jessica [...]
ABOUT The Butterfly is seen as the agent for rebirth and transformation. Its successive life stages are metaphors for the human soul. It can also be a symbol of beauty or childhood innocence.
ABOUT Air represents intellect, thought, memory and wisdom. A fundamental force, without direction Air can be channeled by those wishing to focus its innate power. Winds are always blowing, rarely seen and eternally present. The never ending ribbon in Alan’s design represents the realm of spirit.
ABOUT Rage is the accumulation of unexpressed Anger. Rage has no control, it lashes out. It offers a false sense of empowerment to an individual that feels inadequate and in turn uses rage to shut down the other individual.
ABOUT Fear is an emotional response to a threat or danger and usually precursors Anger. Fear is also a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
About Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are [...]
