Tonight the sun passes into Leo – so here comes the picture to the month.
According to spiritual astrology, the heart center is the seat of the soul and is ruled by Leo. Leo is the expression of the I AM, the sun of our being. The lion is the symbol of the personality which is to be transformed by the soul. The highest point of illumination in us is the head centre, and via this center a yogi establishes contact with the sun center of our planet, Shamballa. On a still higher plane there is a relation to the polar star.
The painting took some inner preparation before I began the outer work. To start with, I did a print-out of a color spectrum wheel with 7 layers per color shade. I photographed an icosahedron cut in a rock crystal and used the form of this Platonic solid of 20 triangles as an expression of rounded-up matter, or the “diamond body” of the spiritual matter which an initiate carries. For the meditator inside the crystal, I chose a picture of a statue of an Eastern goddess in a blessing posture which I took some years ago in the home of friends. I placed her face into the center of the triangle pointing upwards and placed the picture of a lion with its head in the middle of the downward triangle. I put the color wheel into the background with its center at the heart center of the meditator, symbolising the spectrum of the one light manifesting in 7 layers of creation. The color of Leo is gold, and so the lion radiates a hue of golden light.
Behind the color wheel I included a photo of the Dhaulagiri (meaning “White Mountain”) of the Himalayas as a symbol of intense aspiration towards greatest heights. On the front of the meditator, I placed the symbol of the sun. I shaped the headpiece exceeding the pyramid as an etheric representation of Shamballa which the meditator contacts via the head center. Atop of it you see a star symbolising the polar star forming a triangle with two other stars.
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09 April 2014, pencils and photo work