“To dream of bananas foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and unloved companion. To dream of seeing your home burning denotes a loving companion, obedient children, and careful servants.”
These quotes are from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, first published fifty years ago but still widely stocked in bookstores today. My guess as to [...]
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Dreamspeak: Mining the Metaphor
Posted in Dreamspeak, dream interpretation, dreaming, dreams, inspiration, marion woodman, paradox, symbols on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bleed Joyfully – A Fresh View of Depression
Posted in Rumi, art, depression, marion woodman, poetry, visions, women on March 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“My mother slept with an axe under her pillow,” one woman recounts in a plaintive voice, “We lived in terror that my father would return to murder us in the night. For some reason, I don’t know why, but I was always expected to be happy.”
Inside a recent video installation at the Power Plant Gallery [...]
Posted in marion woodman, quotes on February 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The providence present in calamity is a mystery not accessible to everyone. When calamity calls us – and eventually it does – few are able to answer creatively, to choose the calamity in order to mine its providence.” — Marion Woodman, The Ravaged Bridegroom
Every ounce a queen!
Posted in ambiguity, consciousness, dreaming, dreams, jung, marion woodman, review, symbols, visions, women on January 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
“I want to die having lived my own life.” Woodman began, her temples white with the mark of cronedom, and we breathed a collective sigh of relief. The sort of relief that one feels in finally belonging, after having lived a long life in a world divorced from the cosmos, in denial of nature.
