Venus shining in my window awakens me early these mornings. Jupiter is nearby. It is breathtaking to be awake at the end of night, hours before dawn. Venus and Jupiter, the feminine and expansive benefics are in the sign of Capricorn. I make no claims to asto-wisdom though for many years I have been […]

This is where my heart lives
Eighteen hundred miles from me
the tides roll in and out
I feel them in my body still
hear the wind in the fir tops
smell the salt flats

Open to the sky

Drift, break apart and again

Still a cloudless heart

without words
images
another way to think
not think
winter sea
sky ice
sound
smells
these lay themselves upon the paper
and it is done before i knew it began

Places in my past often lie behind my paintings.
When I was a young woman I lived in the Canadian Rockies. My partner and I had developed a liking for ice climbing. On one adventure we decided a particular frozen chute required maximum daylight to ascend. We drove out the afternoon before and set up camp […]

26 December
namnsdag Staffan, Stefan | Ren
(Staff | pure, reindeer)

The staff was placed into the ground, aligned with the polestar, it was used to calculate the angles to derive the positions of the stones around the stone circle. A sort of runic calendar was inscribed upon the staff. Stafa; alot and also to put words […]

23 December
namnsdag Adam
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Deep in November
Here there is a little of everything
and if you have eyes to see with
you don’t need to search
Northern lights flare up
ice pearls ignite
mountain fox tracks decorate the tundra
and every new day you wake up
to the laughter of ptarmigans
This that they call the dark season
Valkeapää

22 December
Namnsdag: Natalia, Nataniel
(next dawn)

Forest Edge
We have just arrived. I believe this day comes from naetr-elding or next dawn but perhaps more accurately night giving way to flame or spirit. Eld; flame, light, enthusiasm, spirit.

21 December
Vintersolståndag
namnsdag Tomas, Thomas
(empty, void, the vast potential)

Winter Glory
Tomas is another of the ancient words that remain in Scandinavian languages. Empty. Tomas is the emptiness of the Universe, Dark Matter that is so empty it is full. It is the vast potential of the unseen. On solstice morning the light is passed between perpetual soul’s […]