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Sonya Sklaroff - Rainbow Flag, 2017 - Oil on panel

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The Zodiac of Dendera decorated the ceiling of a chapel in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, where the mysteries of the resurrection of the god Osiris were celebrated.

The vault of heaven is represented by a disc, held up by four women assisted by falcon-headed spirits. Thirty-six spirits or “decans" around the circumference symbolize the 360 days of the Egyptian year.

The constellations shown inside the circle include the signs of the zodiac, most of which are represented almost as they are today. Aries, Taurus, Scorpio, and Capricorn, for example, are easily recognizable, whereas others correspond to a more Egyptian iconography: Aquarius is represented as Hapy, the god of the Nile flood, pouring water from two vases.

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“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life’s fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. (+)

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Illustration for Part V of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)

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Botanical Garden, Mount Lofty, Australia,

Photography by Bo Le.

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Sophia Suspended, by Naked Pastor

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A mantra for the dying to go to the light of love ♾️

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ཀ་དག་རིག་པ་��རྗོད་མེད། །

ཁ་དོག་མཚན་མ་ལས་འདས། །

ག་ལེར་རིགས་པས་དཔྱོད་དང༌། །

ང་བདག་རྩ་བ་ཆོད་འགྲོ།

ཧེ་ཧེ་ཧེ།

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un•furl : to become spread out from a folded state, especially in order to be open to the wind.

unfurl that which stagnates.

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" We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. "

- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Noriyuki Kobayashi - Light in the Sky

Noriyuki Kobayashi 小林　範之

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Hania Rani - Buka (Live on KEXP) "The title of the song was inspired by Finnish writer – Tove Jansson’s tales about the Moomins. One of my favourite characters is the Groke, which in Polish is Buka. She appears as a ghost-like, hill-shaped body with two cold staring eyes. Wherever she stands, the ground below her freezes and plants and grass die, anything that she touches will freeze. She seeks friendship and warmth, but she is declined by everyone and everything ..." Hania Rani