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This is a blog I did in 2009, the paintings I enjoyed so much doing them and the idea of them. At the moment, for some reason, 'The Divine Feminine' is now extremely appropriate, it is about a freedom for all, with women stepping up to provide the balance, after such a long long time of imbalance of the whole world.
I read a blog the other day by a man, that really humbled me about how he recognised this in his relationship with a woman, it is nothing to do with being a feminist or being against men, it is simply 'balance' male female, black white, love hate, etc etc
Today, especially it has significance. Today I am thinking of a huge cleansing of my home, clearing away the old energies and preparing for a new year. When I say cleansing, I usually do this with burning sage (over a saucer so as not to set the place alight!) walking around every room, spreading the smoke into every corner, you can just do this with 'thinking' light if you wish, but I love the smell of sage. And today I think I shall probably do the cleansing around the perimeter of the garden too.
The result of doing this is incredibly subtle, but never the less you can feel the energy cleansed.
Here's my blog about the icons...
A CELEBRATION OF THE DIVINE FEMININE
I had never seen icons before, but when I did, I thought what an amazing idea – to put healing into a painting, and by the way, no, I am not a religous person. So I started painting them for individual people – I mean with them in mind and ended up with ten! If anyone is interested in commissioning one for themselves then let me know.
Icons were introduced in 300 ad in Byzanteum (Turkey). Constantine the Emperor of Rome, adopted Christianity, but also held Pagan beliefs. He declared Byzanteum the new Christian capitol . Mary, it is said spent the last years of her life in Ephesus (Turkey), and the first church dedicated to her was build there.
Icons are painted with love and prayers so that when they are looked upon you can connect to the healing qualities of that particular saint or master. This exhibition focused on the many faces or aspects of Mary as the feminine master. She represents love, compassion, tenderness, wisdom, intelligence, patience, peace, safety and love within our parenting decisions.
“Mary is the compassionate one, and represents unconditional love, a mothers love, she as a wise one is moving closer to you now. As your hearts open and are filled with love and compassion, the web within your heart increases. The feminine principle must come to the fore. Not in a feminist way but to balance the masculine. It is all about balance, men must find the sensitive within to keep the balance”
“Gilrans Heart” Sally Hope
I read a blog the other day by a man, that really humbled me about how he recognised this in his relationship with a woman, it is nothing to do with being a feminist or being against men, it is simply 'balance' male female, black white, love hate, etc etc
Today, especially it has significance. Today I am thinking of a huge cleansing of my home, clearing away the old energies and preparing for a new year. When I say cleansing, I usually do this with burning sage (over a saucer so as not to set the place alight!) walking around every room, spreading the smoke into every corner, you can just do this with 'thinking' light if you wish, but I love the smell of sage. And today I think I shall probably do the cleansing around the perimeter of the garden too.
The result of doing this is incredibly subtle, but never the less you can feel the energy cleansed.
Here's my blog about the icons...
A CELEBRATION OF THE DIVINE FEMININE
I had never seen icons before, but when I did, I thought what an amazing idea – to put healing into a painting, and by the way, no, I am not a religous person. So I started painting them for individual people – I mean with them in mind and ended up with ten! If anyone is interested in commissioning one for themselves then let me know.
Icons were introduced in 300 ad in Byzanteum (Turkey). Constantine the Emperor of Rome, adopted Christianity, but also held Pagan beliefs. He declared Byzanteum the new Christian capitol . Mary, it is said spent the last years of her life in Ephesus (Turkey), and the first church dedicated to her was build there.
Icons are painted with love and prayers so that when they are looked upon you can connect to the healing qualities of that particular saint or master. This exhibition focused on the many faces or aspects of Mary as the feminine master. She represents love, compassion, tenderness, wisdom, intelligence, patience, peace, safety and love within our parenting decisions.
“Mary is the compassionate one, and represents unconditional love, a mothers love, she as a wise one is moving closer to you now. As your hearts open and are filled with love and compassion, the web within your heart increases. The feminine principle must come to the fore. Not in a feminist way but to balance the masculine. It is all about balance, men must find the sensitive within to keep the balance”
“Gilrans Heart” Sally Hope
And while were on about the Divine Feminine, I have to mention Bridgit and another painting I did for IMBOLC which is at this time too. This is a painting I did for an exhibition
Imbolc – Anastasia copyright Sally Hope 2009
Oil on Canvas with gold leaf detail 80 cm x 100 cm
This painting was for an exhibition of ”Sabrina”
a celebration of the soltices of each year
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