A Must-read For All Norse Mythology Fans! :D

Murstensdalen nature reserve in Västmanland, Sweden (November 6, 2020).

forest scenes

Annie Stegg Gerard (@anniestegg)

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“In the depths of the forest your image follows me.”

—Jean Racine

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}

the lives of trees

& windows made of leaves

Moss and mushrooms

ever as a waking dream//hazy rays & mossen greens