mythic threads

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

"BLUE"

“Blue”

Cotton, metallic threads, pearls, glass beads on antique linen.

Image: 30 inch diameter.

What emerged from a blue time, a pressing-down time and 560 hours of tiny stitches?

Below: Roots and Branches to the skies

Above: Rising Sun

Left: Earth, Fire

Right: Water,, Wind

Doves crying at the moon

Flying doves heralding…

And then,

Les hirondelles , les petite filles d’air—

O swallows, little daughters of the air—

Holding in their beaks pearly omphali

And the new white thread

Circling

Protecting

Containing

Our “blue” planet.

BLUE

Sunday, June 18, 2023

The conflict between the opposites can strain the psyche to the breaking point, if we take them seriously or if they take us seriously…if all goes well the solution, seemingly of its own accord, appears out of nature. Then and then only it is convincing. It is felt as “grace.”

…it represents the result of the joint labors of consciousness and the unconscious and attains the likeness of the God image in the form of the mandala, which is probably the simplest model of a concept of wholeness.

…The clash, which is at first of a purely personal nature, is soon followed by the insight that the subjective conflict is only a single instance of the universal conflict of opposites. Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche…

...I am thinking here of the simplest basic form of the mandala, the circle, and the simplest (mental) division of the circle, the quadrant or, as the as may be, the cross.

C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Late Thoughts), pages 335-336.