Tarot images have inspired Andre Breton, Roberto Matta, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and many others . The archetypical images of the tarot serve as a map key. These key images help the viewer to interpret the language of their subconsciousness.
Diana Calabaza Cósmica is a Spanish artist who is interested in dream worlds and the mysteries of nature. Diana has never considered herself an artist but only an interpreter of her own eyes.
While being an Art Historian Diana’s artistic training is intuitive and self taught. She prefers not to rely on any institutional sequence. Her themes sway between the innocent and naïve. As well as gliding over the dark and silent. She has worked for several Spanish publishers such as Aurora Dorada and La Felguera. Diana Calabaza Cósmica has had solo and group exhibitions in Spain, Mexico and the United States. She is currently preparing a complete tarot…
Doren Robbins is a poet, essayist, and mixed media artist. His writings have appeared in Kayak, Sulfur, Third Rail, andmany other journals. Summer 2021 Spuyten Duyvil Press published Sympathetic Manifesto, Selected Poems, 1975-2015.
Erotic’s Gravitate Version 6
My work is connected to the originating DADA and Surrealist traditionsof fusing the dream into works of fine art,collage, photomontage, and mixed-media works, many of which are discussed in artist-and-subject-specific exhibits and catalogues of exhibitions, Herta Wescher’s book Collage, Robert Motherwell’s The DADA Painters and Poets, and Marjorie Perloff’s The Futurist Moment.
Feminine with shadows
In part, to me the fantasy is in the euphoria of arrangement and the directing emotion. Something must be present in the images, something like what Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca referred to as Duende, an incident of imagination, a type of imponderable intensity.
Simultaneous Visitors
Over the last fifteen years collages and mixed-media works…
In Milo Rigaud’s Secrets of Voodoo he describes the les lois ‘the laws’ as intermediaries between human beings and the cosmic source. These unseen constitutional agents are waves known as Loas who superintend the pattern of the world. During ritual and geometric drumming initiates tune into a loa and a transmission ‘mounts’ a recipient, known as ‘cheval’ which means horse. From the outside the person is possessed or entranced-from the word entrance. Similar to an artist being a cheval ridden by inspiration (in spirit).The psychic transit arrives, stays and expires while vertical lines are cross bounded by horizontal lines producing a square (or diamond) that channels (even generates) cosmic awareness into a personal experience.
The psychic map contained within the veve’s is a cross road of any place, it is also at the same time a quantum world of everywhere. I do not practice Voodoo or any religion in a traditional process. What I notice about active practitioners in Voodoo is trance states and a deep relationship with inspiration.
Excessive emphasis on power points and direction makes space magical and useful. Realistically on a mundane level, lines retain power in structure, a sentence of words or even numbers counting paced events on a clock. The Veves in voodoo reflect such effects as points and lines being the living representation of a spirit who is a geometric being. This is not unlike other cosmograms using geometry, including the Sri Yantra, Kolams and Navajo sand painting to mention a few.
Health, abundance, growth and love are all recognized universally as good and beneficial directions for the best outcomes. Positive end results, efficiency, a management of temporal lobe quakes and a thriving neural network are in accordance to the patterns of Loas. It cannot be argued maintaining this pattern is essential to balance and living well. Magic’s best purpose is healing and restoring the incomplete.
Points and lines (or particles and waves) will appear serpentine. The serpent is an expression of a time tense, a movement of a day and night in space. Only a focusing meditating point can open an omnivoyant eye in the center square (or center diamond). Veve’s along with the crafted tiles made by Islamic artisans have fixed these particles and waves in a suspended state for us to study the hidden qualities of an interior state. In my limited personal experience spirits look more like unfolding flowers without interruption, then they look like replicas of people.
I intentionally borrow from authentic beliefs. I mimetically blend ideas together. My intention is not to marginalize the value of traditional Voodoo
The search for a mind treasure in the past relied on the astrological map of archetypes. This cross was emblemized into the tetramorph, a visual arrangement of four things.
In this artistic dramatization Aquarius is an agent of sapience directing itself as it’s own magnetic force. Taurus, Leo, Scorpio create a ladder of finer and finer interior triangles.
Taurus representing stability while channeling creativity between parallel lines beyond personality.
Leo directs it’s energy into a series of actions to deliver a flower or design to the world.
Scorpio are the lines drawn by the tool and is the evolving, crawling, flying spine.
These substances-earth, fire and water, create a closed triangle of electric currents, a ladder or chain of triangles.
The Aquarian mind refines all turbulent magnetic forces within one’s self Having been a floating needle lost in a circle, the tetramorph becomes a conscious map. Aquarius aims to manage gravity and balance the triangles like an egg standing on a level surface.
The ladder of triangles are steps to further our own development towards inner realization. The ladder becomes a hyper reflective yantra, a sort of inward escalator. With every step, the chain of being changes on all levels. Novelty and invention grow out of either end. The ladder is a link like a potter spinning a pot on a wheel that aligns with the Earth’s magnetic field in a beautiful way. A process where the potter manifests a copy of a form broadcasted from a heavenly pattern
every once in a while I enjoy experimenting with different concepts and design. here’s an avant garde chain mail style, copper enamel pendent. I like the way M’Chigeeng First Nation artist, Duncan Neganigwane Pheasant describes a special frame of mind as a Hall of Creation. everybody walks through two beams of structure and flexibility. these are qualities in every person to find and to build an interior temple or House of Invention within themselves. The ceiling is the sky while the floor board is a cross current of tiles, each representing a space on a calendar. in the center is a mercurial self with multiple layers of tissue that always change. a surface identity is contained inside a beaker but also a guiding star that links to genius, a birds eye view. universally an attentive path leads to the best, the good. this quality of being honest shares a sense of well being with others. these are the thoughts behind the design and intention of this pendent.
The Arcanauts is a spiritually oriented, psychedelic Jazz and Funk band. The band was founded by composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist David Andrew Moore. Moore founded the band with intentions of creating the kinds of music he liked as a vehicle to express the spiritual path he is walking.
The Arcanauts are: Joe Albano — woodwinds Greg Toro — basses Tom Dowd — guitars Evan Waaramaa — Keyboards David Andrew Moore — drums, percussion and additional keyboards
I was very excited to be a visual part of the Arcanauts experience. You can catch a great interview with David at DigBoston here
The Ancient Egyptian Ka is an expression of vital essence, a force rising from a place that can not be explained. I haven’t found any strict definition of Ka but it is similar to the word soul. Many sources explain that the hieroglyph that display two arms are symbolic of molding pottery on a potters wheel.
The Ka
My first impression of Ka is energy. Another translation, based partly on the educated guesses of Julian Jaynes in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions qualities of conscious related to autoscopy. This idea of Ka as a double isn’t significantly supported when cross examined but there are some credible details to consider temporarily.
The autoscopic narrative suggests reflection is a kind of illusionary duplication, a way of putting one’s self into an object For example the Tutankhamun sarcophagus is a vivid copy of the pharaoh’s Ka or soul. To me it seems valid to consider Ka a universal signature that represents a forms presence fully. That sense of residence and memory survives the limits of the original. In this case and many others, the forgery is a decoy that influences our subconscious more powerfully than the original source.
Norval Morrisseau from Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist.National Gallery of Canada; First Edition (January 1, 2006)
Ojibway artist, Norval Morrisseau talked about The House of Invention. He never explained what the House was dogmatically. The meaning I found in what Morrisseau was talking about was the House was a flash of instantaneous possibilities.
Rarely we receive a glimpse of light from The House of Invention unless it’s in our dreams. My personal experience was an astral dream where my future self (Visual Spatial perspective) was touring the House of Invention. All the art was holographic and animated in a sequence of a fluid loops. It was comparable to the graphics interchange format but without any tics, fully three dimensional while suspended in space.
Plato also mentions a House of Invention he called hyperuranion, a place were all the forms live.
Jupiter in Vedic astrology is Guru, otherwise known as an auspicious teacher of light or in old fashion terms, simply- lord of light. This the embodiment of the silhouette ventriloquized by light in the painting. How we talk to ourselves influences our smallest self at an atomic level. The effects of Jupiter widens, extends and liberates space between lines. The planet’s influence causes us to to see things clearly without mistake. Jupiter is benevolent, helpful and fatherly. It has everything and doesn’t need anything. With it’s massive weight it moves obstacles effortlessly. Jupiter rules the 9th house of theurgy, learning, spirituality and awareness of reality.
Dino D’ Taos is an outsider artist who lived in Taos, New Mexico from 1998 to 2006. Dino’s enchantment with the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali motivated him to become a self taught artist and Dali Disciple. Dino believed Salvador Dali’s method of objectifying the psychic forces of the unconsciousness offered viewers a new scripture to understanding reality. The foundation of Dino’s work relied on continuing Dali’s message to help expand a new art testament in a post Dalian world. In company with the cosmic themes deposited in Dali’s book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, Dino’s paintings resume Dali’s inquiry into occult subjects like alchemy, astrology and Pythagorean narratives.
From a personal perspective I get a powerful impression from his paintings that somehow part of Dino’s memory retained insights from the Elysian Mysteries in some former life. With Dino’s paintings there is a resurrection of an earlier bicameral state that explores space with lines, geometric shapes and paronomasia. This seems to fuse the hemispheres of the mind for a moment as Dali alludes to and calls “Pythagorean instantaneousness” which can be found in his painting, The Sacrament of the Last Supper.
Dali taught Dino that perspective played a key role in the surrealistic method. This magic was practiced by putting the viewer into an optical trance that was intended to trigger neural pathways. I’ll mention it briefly that Dino experienced auditory visitations. This mediumship included a reception from the Dutch post-impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, which he openly talked about with my wife and me. Reference to Dino’s encounter with Van Gogh was channeled in a 48inx72in painting that can be found here on Vanessa Valencia’s page, a patroness and collector of Dino’s work.
I moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1997 a year before Dino. It wasn’t until 2000 I met Dino at the Cafe Tazza, a cool coffee house on Kit Carson Rd, which unfortunately no longer exists.
We both enjoyed strong coffee and became fast friends easily. Since we were both artists we had a lot to talk about. It wasn’t less than a few months the owner at Tazza provided a room where we hung our work. We both ended up selling work. Along the way Dino introduced me to my wife and from there the three of us would get together, have dinner, drink wine and smoked lots of flower.
The three of us would talk about art for hours and read each other’s tarot cards. There was always a steady flow of jazz in the background. It was a great time. A time without a computer overlooking our memories. These days bohemian and hippie are hashtags but back then we were organically experimenting with a bohemian and hippie lifestyle. I look back now on those carefree days as playing an integral part in my own development as an outsider artist.
Dino painted with acrylic on wood board he cut himself. He also made prints of his work. He had this cool trike with a little seahorse flag that he peddled around with. In the carrier he put his paintings and easel. You could find him comfortably painting in the Taos Historic District of the Taos Plaza. People would watch him paint and buy art from him.
Dino D’Taos was born on December 25 which made him a Capricorn who preferred the solitary life to an extroverted life. He was religiously dedicated to his work. He had some background experience in galleries but favored showing work at coffee house’s because he believed everyone buys a cup of coffee. In retrospect Dino and I shared the similar belief that coffee culture was a more authentic and less institutionalized avenue for showing art.
My wife and I own a few paintings. We also have some of Dino’s writings which remind me of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. I have no idea where Dino is now or how he is. I treasured the friendship dearly and regard Dino as a guide that helped mature the bond I have with my creative self. Even though I’m on my own path I regularly employ the methods of surrealism to enter the subconscious
There is a guiding light. A path towards a healthier and more compassionate self. It is a star self, a light held together by it’s own gravity. It is easily understood by all cultures that the brain responds well to a deity related to light (or weightlessness)
Weighing of the heart from The Book of Coming Forth by Day
In Vajrayana Buddhism, a Yidam is a symbol used as a vehicle to help understand inner space by visualization. There are other reflective symbols similar to Yidam’s that are associated with the Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. These are paintings on wood of saints that have a thaumaturge effect which is a type of gravitational healing power on the viewer. More devices include the Dine sand paintings and the Vèvè of Vodun. These are all ways to connect to planetary influences to empower a practitioner’s use of managing gravitational forces as remedies.
Dine Healing Sand Painting
Aspirations towards well being of others and one’s own health are universally accepted as a mature and worthwhile intention. A devoted routine of concentration on any symbol, any deity or any word can generate a magnetic relationship. This friendly association with a visualized goal opens one up to a field of force. Purified to the bottom line this magnetic relationship involves imagining a future self that provides guidance to a present self.
Cabala Chemica Volume VI Theatrum Shemicum, Hamburg 1659
Astrology is based on electromagnetic waves that influence the micro gravity the will has over a mind. These bestowing waves, like Venus for insistence, highlights the quality of value in things. This why Venus traditionally represented love. The planet Mars preforms well by enduring time with patience while the worst traits of Mars always involve impatience. Mercury facilitates all transmission, communication and reception. Saturn constitutes darkness to manage overexposure by dividing light into pace and degrees. Jupiter over expands and discloses information without limitation. More recently discovered planetary aspects were consolidated as aspects of Saturn to ancient people.
Planetary Magic Square, Mercury the Chess Board
Uranus creates unexpected and extraordinary designs in stable patterns and changes those patterns. Neptune react to data concerning fluctuations and pressure of boundaries. This wavering line places experience between knowledge and belief. Pluto is a influence that polarizes an experiencer’s interpretation of surface and light. This enables further inquiry into truths about the collective unconscious and the self. These are the magnetic forces of nature
These transmitted experiences add to our brains growth to become fully self aware and create it’s own program. Most likely a program that follows the operations of practicing the best relationships with all beings.
Example of a Ley line/Dragon line
Certain locations on earth have more concentrated telluric hot spots that can enhance astrological transits. These powerlines are called ley or dragon lines. Focusing attention or enacting a seasonal play on these lines can have a strong impact on the experiencers awareness.
this speculative writing is not intended to officially represent the views of any group or religious institution.
Painting is a séance with one’s self, it’s a mediumship that dowses for pathways in the collective unconsciousness. All my writing is speculation, observational study and a visualization exercise in words.
Sefkhet-Abwy is Djehuty’s counterpart. Djehuty being commonly referred to by the Greek name Thoth, the ibis headed or beaker moon god. It is unclear how Sefkhet-Abwy fits in the triangularly with Ma’at, who is Djehuty’s actual wife but this is how it is recorded c. 3150 – c. 2613 BCE. Regardless both Djehuty and Sefkhet-Abwy were responsible for weight and measure. It is paramount to notice a woman as an accountant for the passing days. The proof being menstruation is based on a cycle.
Merkhet an astronomical timekeeping instrument
I found Sefkhet-Abwy was also called the Mistress of the House of Architects. This would be noteworthy to understand and explore metaphorically. Symbolically Sefkhet-Abwy’s use of a cord functioned umbilically to connect sacred alignments while surveying land. This cord was knotted to create a measuring rope used in the Stretching the Cord ceremony. Part of the ceremony was finding a square in space.
Stretching the Cord ceremony
There is so much to write about the meaning of the Stretching the Cord ceremony but I’ll reserve it. I recommend the reader look more into these things. The compass rose, geometry and even ornithomancy as flight patterns become more meaningful.
A Surveying Groma. A tool used to find a square in space
The name Sefkhet-Abwy which means either seven-horned or Safekh-Aubi she who wears horns, horns being plural without specific number. Relying on the reliefs, there are seven horns and a long horn creating eight. There is also an arch U-shaped indentation that encases the bone star design
The bovine horn (antler) theme and the bow can easily flow into the crescent moon symbol, both for agriculture and hunting purposes. There is also a leopard skin worn by Sefkhet-Abwy that represents the universal sky with the spots being points. If we travel 3,057 miles east from Egypt (on land) we can find the Hindu deity, Shiva who also has a moon crescent on his forehead and leopard skin. Shiva hangs out with cattle too
Star of Lakshmi and eight moon phases. The number Seven can escort us into all sorts of associative meanings. One being a version of the menorah whose limit at the time would stop at Saturn and the seven seas. Another being the period of seven days.
Maybe the gravity of the moon and earth help influence the framework of collagen and calcium phosphate. My impression of the horns led me to believe the ossification of cattle horns may have had some kind of relationship with the eight phases of the moon.
Mitchell Pluto 