I absolutely love it and came close to tears when I saw it.This is what she wrote about Nut:
Nut is the Egyptian creator goddess. Every night she swallows the sun and gives birth to it at Dawn. She is the mother of Isis and Osiris, as well as many other gods and goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon.
She is part of the Spiral Dance Collection which portrays the goddesses as a mix of human features and expressions of energy, which flow out from their hands and feet as spirals but can also be expressed through other elements associated with them. She is faceless so that each individual can imagine the features that they need to see in order to have a personal connection with her.
I do not know a lot about the Egyptian pantheon, but I will do some research and let you know what I find.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Life can be a witch....
Life can be so unfair...some of the best people seem to get ill or don't feel good in their own skins..Unfair, it makes me wanna stomp my foot!!!
A friend of mine has been having problems at work, he's totally stressed out and his boss isn't really cooperative, to say the least..I wish him all the best and will keep him in my thoughts since that is pretty much all I can do. Grandpa is still in hospital, but feeling a lot better and he might even be coming home this weekend.
On the positive side, I am feeling quite good despite still not having a job. I am very much in touch with my homely side and take pride in keeping the household running. I also enjoy my craftwork and my knitting.....I sound like a regular soccer mom....the only thing missing is a kid or two, lol. Actually, I wouldn't mind that at all..for some reason I keep seeing myself as a mom lately.Who knows what kind of web the Goddess weaves.
Amid all the bustle of daily life it can be hard to keep up with the spiritual part of your life. Yes, the Goddess is always with me but sometimes it would be nice if I could actually spend some quality time with her...Yesterday I received a wonderful surprise from Megan Welti. She not only mailed me a Danu print for our art swap, but she also included an art card of the Goddess Nut, something she felt drawn to do..
I absolutely love it and came close to tears when I saw it.This is what she wrote about Nut:
Nut is the Egyptian creator goddess. Every night she swallows the sun and gives birth to it at Dawn. She is the mother of Isis and Osiris, as well as many other gods and goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon.
She is part of the Spiral Dance Collection which portrays the goddesses as a mix of human features and expressions of energy, which flow out from their hands and feet as spirals but can also be expressed through other elements associated with them. She is faceless so that each individual can imagine the features that they need to see in order to have a personal connection with her.
I do not know a lot about the Egyptian pantheon, but I will do some research and let you know what I find.
I absolutely love it and came close to tears when I saw it.This is what she wrote about Nut:
Nut is the Egyptian creator goddess. Every night she swallows the sun and gives birth to it at Dawn. She is the mother of Isis and Osiris, as well as many other gods and goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon.
She is part of the Spiral Dance Collection which portrays the goddesses as a mix of human features and expressions of energy, which flow out from their hands and feet as spirals but can also be expressed through other elements associated with them. She is faceless so that each individual can imagine the features that they need to see in order to have a personal connection with her.
I do not know a lot about the Egyptian pantheon, but I will do some research and let you know what I find.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Update
My grandfather is feeling a lot better now..He can even get up out of bed for short periods, and he is getting talkative again. He is still scared, but not as much, since he is able to comprehend what is happening better now. He has to stay in the hospital at least untill next tuesday to finish the antibiotics. Further treatment depends on how he is doing then
Monday, May 11, 2009
Grandfather
Hi everyone
I probably won't be around a lot for a while, since my granddad is in hospital with a severe pneumonia. He is on oxygen and some heavyduty antibiotics at the moment...and probably has to stay for about a week
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Catching up
Wow, it seems like a long time since I have written a proper blog..I just seem so busy, and I don't really have anything noteworthy to tell. I finished my craft projects, but if you have been reading this blog for a while you will know I alwys dive right back in. I was knitting a comfort shawl for my friend T, and I have finished that. She loved it and actually wore it during most of our Beltane celebrations. Now I am knitting one for myself, in a dark and fluffy blue.At first I had a struggle with the yarn, since it is so thin and fluffy, but now I have the pattern established I am good to go. I also finished the felt project I was working on, and I think she turned out fine. See for yourself...I made her from a pattern by Atelier Inspiree to which I made a few changes. Her hair should have been in a tighter bun and she should be wearing crown. I did not like that, a spring queen should not look like a granny, lol.
At the moment, I am getting into felting. Since last Thursday it would have been my mom's birthday ( she would have turned 50), Danny and I decided to do something fun, and felting was something we have wanted to do for a while now. I actually made something useful...a wonderful hat. I am certainly going to do some feltwork again. I am also working on another project, a summermandala, made to a pattern from Atelier Lindelicht. Though this one, but really enjoyable. I'll post pics as soon as it is done.
Last week we had a holiday. On the 30th of April here in Holland we celebrate Queensday. It's a celebration of the Queen's birtday, but to make it complicated it is not her actual birthday, we just kept the date after the last queen, Juliana abdicated. On this day the queen usually visits a town, which draws a huge crowd of onlookers. Generally it is a very relaxed affair, but that might change next year. This year someone decided to drive his car through the crowds and try to attack the royal family......A horrific event, which killed 7 innocent people and the perpetrator..The country was in shock, maybe still is..
The video is quite shocking...so don't watch around the little peeps..To make things clear, the royal family is in the bus, there is some Dutch commentary from a live tv broadcast that was taking place at the time. The perp died as well, so we will never really know why he did it, but I think we can safely say he was not in his right mind at the time.
So that's all for now..I hope you had an enjoyable Beltane and will have a good weekend. This Sunday I will be going for a walk in the forest, at 't Solse Gat, a place to be considered very powerful and spiritual. I will report on that....
At the moment, I am getting into felting. Since last Thursday it would have been my mom's birthday ( she would have turned 50), Danny and I decided to do something fun, and felting was something we have wanted to do for a while now. I actually made something useful...a wonderful hat. I am certainly going to do some feltwork again. I am also working on another project, a summermandala, made to a pattern from Atelier Lindelicht. Though this one, but really enjoyable. I'll post pics as soon as it is done.
Last week we had a holiday. On the 30th of April here in Holland we celebrate Queensday. It's a celebration of the Queen's birtday, but to make it complicated it is not her actual birthday, we just kept the date after the last queen, Juliana abdicated. On this day the queen usually visits a town, which draws a huge crowd of onlookers. Generally it is a very relaxed affair, but that might change next year. This year someone decided to drive his car through the crowds and try to attack the royal family......A horrific event, which killed 7 innocent people and the perpetrator..The country was in shock, maybe still is..
The video is quite shocking...so don't watch around the little peeps..To make things clear, the royal family is in the bus, there is some Dutch commentary from a live tv broadcast that was taking place at the time. The perp died as well, so we will never really know why he did it, but I think we can safely say he was not in his right mind at the time.
So that's all for now..I hope you had an enjoyable Beltane and will have a good weekend. This Sunday I will be going for a walk in the forest, at 't Solse Gat, a place to be considered very powerful and spiritual. I will report on that....
Friday, May 8, 2009
Danu
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Unfair
Yesterday, one of my very best friends had some horrible news...she is very ill indeed. We already knew she had a benign brain tumor, inoperable due to its place...and hard to do anything else about it. Recently she started feeling worse, and had her blood checked out...het condition is very bad. Radiation is not an option because it might damage her brain, so she is back on meds that left her unable to function the first time around. They cause her to pass out, faint, be unable to speak...And if that were not bad enough, she will have to take them for years while doctors look for an alternative. She will hurt while on meds or die..
It breaks my heart to see her suffer, she can be so full of life, so vibrant. Her flame is dimming, I wonder how long she can hold on...I hope her spark will brighten when she visits Avalon, because she needs it so much. It is so unfair, she doesn't deserve this suffering....
I wish her all the strenght she needs and will do anything to help, but like her, I am afaid it might not be enough
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