Elle-May

Morozumi Osamu (Japanese, b.1948)

Midsummer in Azumino Village

“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.

Art: Brünnhilde, LXV, Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA (b. 1951)

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We know that it is the people who do not know enough about their own shadow and their own dark side who are most likely to fall victims to evil influences. If one knows the evil possibilities within oneself, then one develops a kind of second sight or capacity for getting a whiff of the same thing in other people. A jealous woman who has realized her own jealousy will always recognize jealousy in the eyes of another woman. The only way, therefore, not to walk through the world like an innocent well-brought-up fool, protected by father and mother from the evils of this world, and therefore cheated and lied to and stolen from at every corner, is to go down into the depths of one's own evil, which enables one usually to develop the instinctual recognition of corresponding elements in other people. Marie-Louise Von Franz, Individuation in Fairy Tales {Centre of Applied Jungian Studies}

Glen Coe, Ballachulish

Sinitta Leunen

"The sky is thus the mirror of the human soul, and when we think that we are reading the stars it is in ourselves we read."

-Eliphas Levi, Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie Part II

Blessed Moon day. (Monday)

(by aventouro)

"No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." -Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

watching the sun slowly rise at mt dolent