Natal StarMaps
“Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? …O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By Any Other Name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title.”
Answer: yes.
Rosa abyssinica
Rosa acicularis – arctic rose, prickly rose (Rosa)
Rosa agrestis - fieldbriar (Caninae)
etc unto near infinitum…
a golden spirit compass rose
nested within the roses of this realm
but only just
for the blue rose does not
technically speaking
exist
This commissioned piece is very dear to my heart, marking an exciting shift in my own work, and created for Rowan @fourthbranchstudios Leona’s darling niece, only two brand new years with us on this plane!
Welcome, little one; thank you for joining us.
Rowan and I have exchanged pieces with each other for years now, as well our strange and wonderous experiences as living artists, and I look very much forward to the day when our exchanges become collaborations, my dear artist sister.
Scroll for the newest additions to my Fourth Branch Studios collection, from the brilliance of Rowan and Ryan’s creations, and if you are so drawn, perhaps to steal yourself into a sparkling glade on the edges of Lichenmoor @fourthbranchstudios .
To be born is the Highest Magick of this realm.
Eve Star
“I am merely suggesting that observers warp their local reality, and they warp it towards symmetry and meaningful beauty.” - John Martineau, on Holes to Heaven with Adam Sommer @kosmognosis , 25 January, 2021
Creating Starmaps for others is an unspeakable thrill, a Venusian delight of the highest order and my most honest magical honor.
This is one of my recent Starmap commissions, for Hsin-Yi Wang, culinary Wizardess of @t2artse4u who I mysteriously found myself living in the same town as twice, on opposite coasts, over the span of the last decade.
While working on this piece, I began to visualize *for the first time* the undulating geometry captured in freeze frame in the two-dimensional astrological chart.
I saw through inspired, collaborative vision, the living heavenly bodies in geometrical concert around this profound, illuminated and beautiful human, whose story resounds on this plane as destiny, and ultimate meaning. And though my skills have not yet caught up with how to express this reality visually through my art, I am forever grateful to this Starmap for revealing it’s essential understanding to my imagination.
Some words
Every human being has a star;
the place where they were birthed.
Some were birthed from our Sun, many have come here on much longer voyages.
It never gets easier to distill into words the experience of creating Starmaps for others. All of my life, I have created art for those I love. My experience as a professional artist has been one of always tuning into how to get back to that place in my heart, in the paintings and works I offer in the context of an economy. I have explored so many avenues of the soul in this; my education has been, shall we say, comprehensive.
In 2015, Neptune quietly and with great weight, moved into alignment with my Natal Sun and I dove
and dove
and dove into the ocean of human consciousness, existence, and the living world and I created what I wanted to create, for myself. I also created for others and those formative pieces, rough hewn out of the living rock of my Saturnian determination, will always carry a particular sweetness to me, as well as the collectors I created them for. And when I had had enough, I emerged
with skill.
And found again my hearts bliss that no other activity can meet - to create beauty for others.
This Starmap somehow served as a sort of merging for these two parts of myself as a creator: the part that creates for herself now dances with the part that creates for others - and they know how to switch roles.
I am a commission artist. My greatest joy in this life is to create beauty for others. I have a long way to go, but I am on the path to Mastery.
Master Painter.
Master Starmap Maker.
Thank you for entrusting me with this most wonderous task.
The Oracle StarMaps offer you a fine art digital print of your Natal Chart. Using my original sumi glyphs and StarMap designs, transformed in the crucible of Adobe software, I custom create your personal Oracle StarMap. Once the design is complete, Joshua of Asheville Fine Art Printing creates a one of a kind giclée rendering of your piece.
The Giclée StarMap
The Giclée StarMap is an exquisitely rendered fine art reproduction, with my original glyphs and legend erased by the wizardry of Joshua Niven of Asheville Fine Art Printing. Once he delivers the giclée to me, I hand ink your natal glyphs and legend and complete the spell by sewing your natal aspects with white, silk thread.
These pieces are limited edition of only 30 pieces, each one signed and numbered as an original collection.
The Classic StarMap
The Ritual StarMap
The StarMap Scroll
The StarMap Scroll is painted on Chinese Xuan paper, and then mounted on an original Chinese Scroll made by Henry Li, of Blue Heron Arts. These designs are based off the Classic StarMap, a one of a kind original rendering of your Natal Chart, in ink, silk thread and stars. For these pieces we will vision together a collaboration of elements that I will then create for you as a magickal, ritual tool.
To be born is the highest magick of this realm, and we all have achieved it; each and every one of us.
In one tiny moment, throughout all of space and time, you traversed from another plane of mystery into this one, of biology and light.
And in that once in a cosmic lifetime arrangement of symmetry and divine proportion, the Giants of this realm, the Planets we share a Sun with, heralded your birth in song. The singing planets, your mother’s bellows, and all attending mingled together in harmony with you, screaming your first notes in a cacophony of musical sound. A cadence, unlike any before or since; this orchestra sang your spirit into your body, and into existence in this realm.
This moment of your grandest power, evidenced through your successful traversing of the realms, is your touchstone in this life, and we can represent it. We can capture the divine proportions, the breathtaking geometry of the moment of your birth, in the Natal Chart.
This is my work, my greatest passion, my abiding obsession - to render the celestial reality of your birth into form;
for education, for beauty, and for ritual and ceremonial use.