Tag: Easter

The Angel of Death, Adonis and Anemones

Fresh green ripples across the land; the garden is filled with bird song. Yet Easter is a festival of death. Christ’s Last Supper was Seder, the annual dinner party at which Jewish people all over the world commemorate the Exodus. Jews remember the Angel of Death passing over their houses before they followed Moses into […]

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He Is Risen! A view of Ivanov’s “Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection”

March 25, 2016 8:28 pm edt North of Atlanta, Georgia USA: Stars Over Washington will close until Monday in fond recognition of an event which may be surveyed as a replica or an artful representation via paint on canvas, dispayed just below. This evening’s entry is posted here with a spirit of turning a government-related endeavor (SO’W) into a spiritual experience instead by way of religious

Joy, Pleasure, Happiness and Chocolate

As you tuck into your Easter egg this morning, you may want to as yourself  this: what is the difference between joy and pleasure? This week I listened to the writer Anthony Seldon talking on the radio, distinguishing between pleasure, which we might get from eating chocolate, happiness which we might get from sharing chocolate with friends, and joy which is transcendant. (He starts at around 24 minutes). Accordingly, pleasure is a passing thing, where some of us get stuck: eating another chocolate bar, reading another trashy magazine. You might associate that with the sign Taurus, the most sensual of […]

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A few thoughts on our modern Tower of Babel

Lower left, in the white robe is Nimrod, the king who reputedly ordered the construction of the Tower of Babel and whose wife/consort Semiramis is the feminine archetype–the Whore of Babylon–an ancient and modern symbol now modeled via such ‘godde…

You’ll Get Worms…

I’ve heard it said that Libra is just Aries who has been to charm school, or Aries with better manners and fashion sense, or Aries with a velvet glove. The point is, there isn’t a huge amount of different between the two once you get below the surf…