IMBUED WITH MYSTICAL INTENT
IMBUED WITH MYSTICAL INTENT
"This month, I had the immense good fortune to receive a custom StarMap from Evening Star Studios. I was so touched when I opened it. I knew right away that it was a fine art heirloom that would be preserved and passed down through my family over the ages. I am so impressed by this artist's work, as it is obviously imbued with mystical intent that defies earthly description."
-Virginia Rosenburg
Each Starmap I create carries with it a sense of almost unbelievable awe, but it was a very special kind of awesome honor to create this particular Starmap for one of my most beloved teachers of Astrology.
Thank you so much, Virginia, for the immeasurable wonder, insight and sheer poetry you have given to me and so many others over the years. You have brought me to tears, to laughter and to revelation over and over and over, like waves of the ocean, forever faithful to their truest nature. I bless your life, in gratitude and sisterhood. L’chaim!
You can find Virginia @VirginiaRosenberg and check out her glorious work at VirginiaRosenberg.com
As above, so below.
This compass rose expresses the four directions of the Tropical Natal chart:
east, west
above, below
because, the planets and the luminaries appear to rise in the east and then to their highest height above and set in the west, falling to their lowest low below.
Every day, each of the planets moves over our heads once, and once under our feet and I consider;
sometimes angel or demon is a matter of orientation.
An experiment: If you want to practice “feeling” the planets, choose one, and note the time each day when it is over head, and the time when it is under foot. Notice how you feel, the kinds of things that are happening, inquire of your dreams, what do you feel in your body, how are others engaging with you, and you with them? etc to infinity
You can obtain the Astrological data free and easily at astrotheme.com though it will take some sussing out the planetary glyphs if you don’t know them already (teaching video coming later this year)
This approach to feeling “as above, so below” is a brand new idea for me, so I will be trying the experiment with Venus, as she was overhead when I was born, and she is overhead now, as I share this post.
If you try this with me, I would LOVE to hear back about what you learn and experience!
This is the third part of the three ‘nods to nautical’ instruments I illustrated on this Scroll Starmap for the illustrious, Virginia Rosenberg @VirginiaRosenburg.
If you’re not familiar with Virginia’s work, her brilliance cannot be overstated ~ check out more at VirginiaRosenberg.com.
This is a heliocentric Natal StarMap
As Astrologers, we primarily focus on a geocentric starmap because we work with direct observation, and Earth is where we live. However, as each day speeds forward with its ever increasing velocity, all of our perspectives inevitably widen.
As we truly let it sink in, for the first time in a very long time, just what our relationship is to the Earth, we begin, as a species, to reach a kind of saturation point in our collective conscious wherein we get it -
what it is to be flesh
- in the context of what it is to be spirit and soul. To witness oneself in the woods, or ocean, or mountain top when the bone knowing descends, and awareness arrives of how inexorably entrained we are, to her biological matrix.
As we reach this saturation point of understanding, we cast our gaze upwards to the skies, and wonder in myriad ways about all those other bodies, the enormous ones, that we inhabit our Sol with.
I adore and crave that one of a kind feeling of synchronistic awe, when my imagination glimpses Earth’s relationship to the Sun and the rest of it’s bodies, moving through space in real time; this is what we feel when we engage the Sky Sciences, and the heliocentric natal chart glimpses this mystery of one’s individual relationship to their own Star.
“Well I’ve been waking up at sunrise
I’ve been following the light across my room
I watch the night receive the room of my day
some people say the sky is just the sky but I say why
why deny the obvious child?
why deny the obvious child?” - Paul Simon
This is a heliocentric natal Starmap, imaged as the first of three Nautical Instruments, from my most recent original work with a very dear Astrological teacher of mine, Virginia, @VirginiaRosenberg.
Seeing the world from a cosmic perspective is a primary medicine of our time, whether we look through the lens of Astrology or Astronomy, once a singular discipline, and each, to this day informing the other.