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2025-11-20

This drawing is another in a series of drawings based on astrological transits, in this case the current Mercury retrograde from Sagittarius back into Scorpio. Today Mercury makes the second of three conjunctions with the Sun in this retrograde season, encouraging our focus and ability to logically assess our feelings and how we are exerting our willpower.

The sigil in the eye of the mask directs us to "Examine Truth," reflecting the Sagittarius leg of Mercury's retrograde journey and its emphasis on reconsidering our beliefs.

#Art #ArtMatters #Astrology #AstrologyArt #DivinatoryArt #Drawing #MercuryRetrograde #Sigil #SigilMagick #VisionaryArt

A heron flies over dark pools of water and fire forming a Tao symbol.  An eye looks up from one of the pools, while white koi with black and orange marking swim in another. A pair of white Venetian masks with gold scrollwork look at the viewer from the left side of the image, with a sigil in the mask in the foreground directing us to "Examine Truth."  Behind the heron a pale blue glimpse of clouded sky contains silvery traces of the prime number pattern formed in the wake of a swimming snake that has disappeared behind the masks.  A wall of flame surges to the right.
2025-11-11

This drawing is another in a series of drawings based on astrological transits, in this case the Grand Water Trine between Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn/Neptune in Pisces, and the Sun/Lilith in Scorpio.

The sigil emerging from the herald's conch horn directs us to "Channel Vitality."

More information about this image is available in this public post on Patreon:

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The original artwork is for sale in my Etsy shop:

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#Art #ArtMatters #Astrology #AstrologyArt #DivinatoryArt #Drawing #Mermaid #Sigil #SigilMagick #VisionaryArt

A merman to the left blows a conch shell, projecting a sigil to "Channel Vitality" through the rippling water of the ocean depths.  He has spiky aqua-coloured fins and gills, and an aqua tail that is only partly visible.  A mermaid seer to the right gazes up toward the center left with white eyes.  She is dressed in kelp, webbed hands upheld, with hair like anemone tentacles and pale aqua gills with a purple and aqua tail.  A purple and pink octopus tentacle reaches down from the right to tap her on the shoulder.
2025-11-04

This drawing is another in a series of drawings based on astrological transits, in this case the conjunction of Mercury and Mars in Scorpio on October 19th, 2025.

There is a sigil behind the osprey's wing with the directive to "Fly True."

More information about this image is available in this public post on Patreon:

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The original artwork is for sale in my Etsy shop:

etsy.com/listing/4398315650/or

#Art #ArtMatters #Astrology #AstrologyArt #Birds #DivinatoryArt #Drawing #Illustration #Ocean #Sigil #SigilMagick #VisionaryArt

Divinatory art: A grey and white osprey has plunged through stormy skies to catch a fish from the green ocean waves below, and now begins a determined ascent against a backdrop of roiling storm clouds and heavy rain.  The osprey looks ahead with golden eyes.  The gold-green fish in its claws wears a stricken expression.  Behind the crook of the osprey's wing, a sigil in the clouds flashes, with the meaning "Fly True."
2025-10-29

This drawing is one in a series of drawings based on astrological transits, in this case the opposition of Venus in Virgo to Saturn in Pisces on October 11th, 2025.

More information about this image is available in this public post on Patreon:

patreon.com/posts/in-from-cold

The original artwork is for sale in my Etsy shop:

etsy.com/listing/4391044216/or

#Art #ArtMatters #Astrology #AstrologyArt #Cemetery #DivinatoryArt #Drawing #GothicArt #PaganArt #VisionaryArt

In a graveyard at night a monument in the form of a woman sleeping on her side is lit by the golden glow of a grave lantern and the waning gibbous Moon.  Lush green trees, grasses, and leaves frame the graves and the mausoleum on the hillside behind her.  The Moon's shadowed side contains a sigil for the directive to "Persist."
2025-10-23

This drawing is one in a series of drawings based on astrological transits, in this case the conjunction of Venus with the South Node in Virgo on October 4th, 2025.

This artwork doubles as a piece of fan art inspired by Maggie Cheung in the film "Hero."

More information about the symbolism of this image is available in this public post on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/past-loves-a

#Art #ArtMatters #Astrology #AstrologyArt #DivinatoryArt #Drawing #FanArt #Hero #Icon #Iconography #MaggieCheung #PaganArt #VisionaryArt

A woman in a red hanfu stands in a clearing full of red leaves opposite a hooded figure beneath a nearly full moon, as the wind blows her hair across our view.  It stirs the leaves flowing before her, like droplets of blood, as she offers her life experiences to her destiny, releasing what she can no longer carry that she may go forward.  There is a spiderweb in the tree over her head.  The sigil in the waxing gibbous Moon directs us to "Leave Heartbreak in the Past."  The hooded figure in its blood-red cloak holds a moonlight-silvered staff and silently receives the offering.  The eyes of some small, hidden creature look out from the nearby tree, the wilderness bearing witness to this dance with fate.
Mental Health Artmentalhealthart
2025-10-01

Light refracts into color, color spirals into wholeness. 🌈✨Every shade is healing, every fragment already whole.

Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦Vagrarian@vivaldi.net
2025-09-18

"A Centennial of Independence," Henri Rousseau, 1892.

Rousseau (1844-1910) was a self-taught French painter, technically of the Post-Impressionist school, but usually classed as a Naive or Primitive artist. I prefer "Visionary" myself. He was ridiculed in his lifetime for his style but not long before Rousseau's death, he was discovered by Picasso who declared him a genius. When he passed he was finally starting to get the attention and acclaim that had been his due. To this day he's a major influence on avant-garde artists.

The First French Republic was declared on September 21st, 1792, and although it only lasted until 1804, it was still considered a significant day to be celebrated. Here we have peasants dancing, and what look like picnickers in the background. The two women in the center of the circle, carrying flags representing the First and Third Republics (the Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940), may be allegorical figures, along with the folks to the right in 18th century dress. Or they're in costumes for the occasion. It's hard to tell with Rousseau, which is what makes him fascinating.

From the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

#Art #HenriRousseau #VisionaryArt #ViveLaFrance #ViveLaRevolution #HurrahForFreedom #LiberteEgaliteFranternite

A Naive/Primitivist painting of a celebration of the first 100 years of the first French Republic. In the center, before a tree, two women (seemingly twins) in Phrygian caps (a popular French Republican symbol) hold the flags of the First and Third Republics. Around them, peasants dance the farandole. From the tree in the center run strings of pennants and paper lanterns. To the left, in the background, are people in contemporary dress, while to the right, in the foreground, are a number of people in 18th century dress, either costumed for the occasion or allegorical figures representing the past.
Wittgenstein's Monsterwittgensteinmonster
2025-09-18

That concludes this Afternoon Art Critic. I'm in Huntsville tonight for a family dinner at the Space Station — love and attention needed elsewhere.

Huge thanks again to Matt Snee for the trust, the art, and the texture.
Until next time 🖼️🧵💫

Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦Vagrarian@vivaldi.net
2025-09-04

"Sonata No. 6 (Stellar Sonata)," Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1908.

Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was a Lithuanian artist and composer, best remembered for a series of abstract paintings in which he sought to visually capture musical composition.

This work is one of two that feature a musicalized version of outer space as well as a vision of divinity. We have an orb swirling in the mist, a vision of the solar system, an angelic being, and a pyramid...or is it a beam of light?

Čiurlionis felt he had synesthesia; he saw music as colors and images, and vice versa, and much of his work was an attempt to express that. Some of his early work was Art Nouveau or Symbolist, but this marks his emergence as a pioneer of Abstract art. His work is strange and compelling; like Hilma af Klint, there's a sense of a profound inner vision, highly personal and difficult to discern.

From the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania.

#Art #AbstractArt #MikalojusKonstantinasČiurlionis
#Synesthesia #MusicAsArt #VisionaryArt

An Abstract painting. Mostly in tones of yellow, gold, and brown, we see swirling mists surrounding a sphere, possibly the Earth, but superimposed on it is a solar system-like disk. In the upper quadrant of the canvas, a horizontal bar supports a single, angelic figure, looking as if it is traversing the canvas, and it stands in the middle of a either a pyramid or a shining light.
SenseiVJsenseivj
2025-08-28
David Wolf Aronsondavidwolfaronson
2025-08-24

Bleak Anatomies. From the book "Shadows in Heaven" by David Aronson and Leslie Powell. Ink, graphite, digital media and collage.

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