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Thank you, @DreamScholars, for inviting me to discuss Indian art history, dreams, astrology, and oneiromancy this year. Today, I gained insights from the exiled Tibetan community in my ancestral lands; their astrology, art, dreams fascinate me! Feeling thankful on my birthday! 🤍
I’ll be speaking at two International Association for the Study of Dreams (@DreamScholars) conferences—one online at the summer solstice, the other in India at March's lunar eclipse. Both explore Indian art, dreams, and astrology through painted dream manuals used by astrologers.
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what makes a museum, a museum? museumofmuseums.org/ enjoy!
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Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.
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It's autumn now and the leaves here in the Midwest have begun to change. It has me thinking about the color green a lot and the annual fleeing of it. The fifteenth-century physician and philosopher Marsilio Ficino describes the Venusian virtue of green things beautifully in Three Books on Life: "...the nature of green things, for so long as they stay green, is not only alive but even youthful and abounding with very salubrious humor and a lively spirit; and because of this a certain youthful spirit flows to us through the odor, sight, use, and frequent habitation of and in them." (Kaske & Clark translation) This Venus retrograde is hitting a lot of us pretty hard. And perhaps there is something fitting about turning toward Venus precisely as the world around us begins to lose its green. As seen above, Ficino explains that green things are repositories of the qualities that allow life to flourish and renew itself. Even when the landscape appears to be withdrawing into dormancy, Venusian life has not disappeared. It's changing into a different kind of beauty. So, in honor of Venus, and perhaps as a small antidote to the seasonal loss of green, I've decided to make my Venus in Taurus collection half-off through the end of the retrograde, November 13, 2026. These talismans were made for cultivating Venusian qualities of beauty, pleasure, affection, prosperity, and material flourishing. It's an invitation to tend the inner garden even when the world outside is beginning to go dormant. Sale Price: $75 - Free shipping to the continental US; an additional $50 for international orders. Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay are accepted. opushelios.net/product/great…
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G.K. Chesterton on mysticism
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Woke up to an email from the Journal of Mythology: they've accepted a paper on my dream and painting for their 'Creatures' issue! It's a winged gaja-simha - a classic elephant-headed lion chimera from Hindu and Buddhist lore. Brilliant way to start the day!
I'll be speaking at Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research at the @UniofOxford in November 2025 for @IndelibleLit. My topic is my own dream and the Indian art history of dream omens, yoga nidra, active imagination, fine art as yogic rasashastra.
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From a Jyotish perspective, the dream may be a manifestation of Gaja-Kesari (elephant-lion) yoga, active in my D1 and the prashna chart. An auspicious Vedic combination formed when Jupiter sits in a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) from the Moon.
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Eating mango sorbet, watching my birthday twin thrive, celebrating successful debut of my astrological Pahari painting research! Next version at St John's, Oxford in November, then extended webinar with Centre for Indian Aesthetics & Postcolonial Studies
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Evolution of Goddesses from the Supreme Mahālakṣmī as per Devīmāhātmya.
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Days 4 to 6 of Navaratri, the nine holy nights honouring Shakti, are dedicated to Lakshmi. During September's Mahalakshmi Vrat, I studied the Sri Suktam with @shreemastrology. You can learn Lakshmi Vidya by signing up today for her brilliant recorded classes and resources 🪷
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I tried to focus on one thing that was beautiful to me: because that which is beautiful, is good, is true. Beauty is truth. And that is good. For me, it was watching the bumblebees on lavender 🪻🐝 The redolence, the hum, the delightful busyness. It felt true to be grateful.
have really been struggling with gratitude lately, largely because life has been legitimately challenging, but the problems are so superficial complaining about them feels corrosive. too much of a good thing but any semblance of a complaint is taken as entitlement. what do you do when you really should be grateful but any expression of it feels like a lie? how do you stay grounded in the reality of struggle without losing sight of all that is good in the world?
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Loveliest of all that is lovely 🥰♥️
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Today marks the beginning of Navratri, 9 sacred nights of Goddess Shakti. May this Navratri bring abundance, peace, strength & spiritual growth into your life. As Navratri begins in Chitra Nakshatra, focus on artistic pursuits & prayer to invite harmony, and inner peace.🌹🪔
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🪷Ascension Frequency on @XSpaces 🗓️ Sunday 11th October, 3PM GMT 🔝Topic: Jupiter Join our 60th weekly recorded 3hr salon for esotericism and philosophy. Open for all to exchange knowledge. Focus is Vedic. Western readings of Jupiter are welcome in. Drop your Jupiter questions below. 👇🏻
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Katoch retweeted
Money is water, the subconscious is water, emotions, dreams, time. What else is like water?
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Day 6/41 of Venus retrograde ​Here's my altar for Lakshmi as Moon to honour: 1. Śravaṇa (Study): Learning Her sacred lunar names and lore; 2. Manana (Reflection): Integrating Her unfading light and joy; and, 3. Nididhyāsana (Meditation): Resting deeply in Her cool presence.
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This three-fold spiritual inquiry originates directly from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (2.4.5): ​"Ātmā vā are draṣṭavyaḥ: śrotavyo mantavyo nididhyāsitavyaḥ" ​(The Self is to be realised through receptive hearing, active reflection, and deep meditative absorption.)
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Professor Rao's research inspires me to create a circular silver/tin-leaf artwork contemplating Lakshmi as the Moon. Tin retains its shine; although I already own a small piece, crafting my own while chanting oṃ candrāyai namaḥ on the next full moon will deepen this practice...
Verse 5 of Śrī Sūkta: Lakshmi's 24th Sacred Name (Chandrām) Notes by Professor SK Ramachandra Rao (1985) Core Meaning Effulgent like the moon, affording delight to devotees, or possessing unfading brilliance. Etymology and Mythological Origin • Root chadi (āhlādane): Derived from the root chadi, meaning "delightful" or "pleasing" owing to the delight it affords. • Ocean Churning Legend (Samudra Manthana): During the churning of the ocean for ambrosia (amṛta), Goddess Lakṣmī arose first from the waters. Her appearance delighted all the gods because it assured prosperity and victory, leading them to praise her as Chandrā. • Origin of the Moon: The Moon later emerged from the waters as a tiny fragment of Lakṣmī's splendour. Whilst the Moon was named chandrā as an aspect of Lakṣmī, Lakṣmī herself embodies the effulgence of a million moons (koṭi-chandra-prakāśā). Commentarial Interpretations in Verse 5 • Sāyaṇa-bhāṣya (SB): Glosses Chandrām as "effulgent like the moon" (chandravat prakāśa-mānām). • Pṛthvīdhara-bhāṣya (PB): Glosses the word as "affording delight to the devotees" (santhosha-kāriṇīm). • Bhāgadheya-bhūṣaṇam (BB): Reads the word together with prabhāsām, explaining that she is named chandrā on account of her unfading brilliance (akṣiṇābhāsām chandrākhyām).
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